Narrative of the day: Treasurer Gina Raimondo blamed her former pension reform partner Gov. Linc Chafee for not paying close enough attention to the risky loan guarantee that state made to Curt Schilling and 38 Studios.
She told the Providence Journal, “A company does not run out of money overnight. A company is not a year behind [on] product development overnight. So the question is: how has the state been monitoring this investment; how and what has the governor and his staff, in conjunction with the EDC … how have they been working the deal?”
It’s a legitimate question, but it also shines a bright light on the growing rift between Raimondo and Chafee, who may end up squaring off against each other for the governor’s office in 2014.
Raimondo said she has sought information from the governor’s office and has not yet received a reply … we know the feeling, as RI Future is still waiting to hear back from your staff on a weeks-old request for an interview with you!
Ian Donnis on Anthony Gemma’s positive early season poll numbers against incumbent David Cicilline: “That’s like assuming some guy currently batting .340 is going to maintain his excellence through a grueling a 162-game baseball schedule.”
Look for many to use the 38 Studios debacle as a reason to remake the EDC.
The NAACP, an organization near and dear to state Sen. Harold Metts, has endorsed marriage equality. Last I checked, Sen. Metts is against it.
The NAACP is also staunchly opposed to voter ID. Senator Metts is a great guy and I hope that he decides to move over to the right side of history on both of these issues.
Marriage equality is clearly the future and fighting it is just fighting the tide. But voter ID will be the norm very shortly. As technology advances and government becomes more open and transparent, not having simple, free-to-obtain assurances that voters are who they say they are will be viewed as incredibly naive 50 years from now, just as we view driving the President around in an open car at 20mph as he waves to people as incredibly naive in 1963. Painting it as a racial issue is not the slightest bit convincing to the vast majority of the population that isn’t hypersensitive about race and is tired of the race card being played incessantly. The NAACP is a racial organization by definition, so of course that’s the single aspect they focus on, but the detached observer properly considers it a tangential issue in a law of neutral applicability. There is nothing about being black or latino that prevents somebody from obtaining a free identification card, and making that argument is itself paternalistic and racist.
Senator Metts is a great guy and I hope that he decides to move over to the right side of history on both of these issues.
I’d say he’s already on the right side…LOL
As for Raimondo v. Chafee, is he “stonewalling” her?
No, Metts is not a “great guy”, he is a “bought and paid for” corporate lackey.