In trying to defend taking a political donation from, of all organizations, Citizens United – famous for the SCOTUS decision but also known for its hit job movie on Hillary Clinton, Brendan Doherty’s campaign says Sheldon Whitehouse’s DISCLOSE Act “clearly is designed to provide an advantage to one side of the political spectrum.”
Wait, what? Really? It is? I’d like to know how, Brendan … Are you trafficking in the lie that unions are exempt from it? Or do you just believe that Republicans benefit more than Democrats when it comes to secret money and shadow messengers in the political process? And if it’s the latter – which is true, by the way, Republicans do benefit more than Democrats from secret money and shadow messengers in politics – why would that affect your support of it? I suppose because Brendan Doherty is already siding with Republicans over Rhode Islanders.
Meet Sam Lovett and Charlie Tsonos … two Democrats vying for one East Providence seat in the state House of Representatives.
Gina Raimondo defends herself and her pension-gutting efforts against Bob Walsh’s boasting that the law is on the side of the retirees whose benefits she slashed … unlike Walsh, Raimondo didn’t offer a prediction, but she did indicate what might be the state’s defense: the pension fund was 48 percent funded and the economy here was bad. Okay, but a judge might not care that you didn’t want to raise taxes on Rhode Island’s richest residents…
This is not how you want your the fancy marriage proposal you planned for your vacation on Block Island to go down.
We’re super happy that Gov Chafee will meet with the Narragansett Indian Tribe, but super bummed that a simple meeting with the gov is the benchmark for victory for native Rhode Islanders. It’s really sad and unfair that, if there is a full-fledged casino in Rhode Island, it won’t be theirs…
And speaking of latent racism … a Romney adviser says President Obama “fully appreciate” America’s “Anglo-Saxon heritage.”
And speaking of Romney … he seems to be pulling a page out of Anthony Gemma’s social networking playbook.
Great reporting by CNN about Mitt Romney’s fake Twitter followers – page from the Anthony Gemma playbook indeed:
With political campaigns increasingly using social media as a tool to communicate with supporters, a strong presence on sites like Facebook and Twitter is regarded as a measure of relevance. As such, some politicians have been accused of using tricks to artificially inflate their online presence.
For example, Romney’s opponent in the primaries, formerHouse Speaker Newt Gingrich, was dinged by a reportthat as few as 8% of his 1.3 million Twitter followers were real. The rest were drummed up by a program that creates fake accounts to swell someone’s follower ranks, the report said. (The campaign denied it.)
“Great reporting by CNN about Mitt Romney’s fake Twitter followers – page from the Anthony Gemma playbook indeed:”
I know how you appreciate full disclosure and must have overlooked the part of the report that said they may have been added to embarrass Romney. Not that your biased at all.
Green told Mashable, a CNN content partner, that someone else may have added fake followers in an effort to embarrass the Romney campaign.
Just a thought, but slightly different punctuation in the headline might keep me from wondering how Governor Chafee, the Narragansetts, and Party Politics were all driving Brendan Doherty’s indefensible opposition to the DISCLOSE act. (Which is not necessarily to imply that they aren’t… who knows?) A semi-colon would work. That to one side, Mr. Plain, please keep on doing your fine work.