Dems Unite Around GOP Smear Campaigns
I’m glad the Rhode Island Democratic party is finally coming together to renounce the incredibly negative campaigning the Republicans have been resorting to. Let’s hope the media picks up on this story. In my biased opinion, it’s the biggest meta-narrative of the local campaign this year, but I think it has a lot of merit [...]
Progress Report: Whitehouse Stands with Middle Class; Romney Plan Would Hurt RI; SNL on Undecided Voters
While Senator Sheldon Whitehouse stood with the middle class, saying social security and Medicare must be preserved, Barry Hinckley stood with, well, Grover Norquist, saying he wouldn’t consider any tweaks to our tax code until the whole thing gets revamped. The two candidates for Senate had no shortage of differences in their first debate last [...]
What’s at Stake Nov. 6th: Remember Climate Change
Today through Frday I’m going to put up a couple of posts about how our environment is going to be impacted by what happens on November 6th. With all the talk about jobs and the economy, I am continually surprised that so few are connecting these topics to the invaluable strides our nation has made [...]
Brown Poll: Good News For Progressive Candidates
There’s a lot of good news for progressive candidates for Congress in Brown’s new poll that came out today. The biggest is probably that Abel Collins, an independent running for the second congressional district, garnered high enough support to be included in WJAR’s debate. Collins campaign manager Dave Fisher said he “absolutely” thought his candidate [...]
Hinckley: ‘Abolish Department of Education’
Barry Hinckley might think the polls predicting his political demise are flawed, but according to Occam’s Razor – the theory that the simplest reason is probably the correct one – no conspiracy theory or professional blunder needs to have occurred in order to explain his poor performance among likely voters. The simplest theory as to [...]
Progressive Politicians, Proposals Popular in Poll
A month before the election a new WPRI poll shows Rhode Islanders comfortably support both progressive politicians as well as progressive policy proposals. The big news from the new poll for both politicos and progressives is that Congressman David Cicilline leapfrogged Brendan Doherty since the last WPRI poll and the liberal incumbent now leads the [...]
Barry Hinckley: Tea Party Republican of Choice
Remember when Republican Senate candidate Barry Hinckley courted out-of-state political donors by saying, “Although many of you who live out of state cannot vote for me – remember, I can vote for you.”? Well, it seems as if one out-of-state group has taken him up on the offer. Hinckley was endorsed by the Freedomworks PAC [...]
Do RI GOP Candidates Stand By 47% Comments?
Republican candidates from both Massachusetts and Connecticut came out against Mitt Romney’s “controversial comments” about not concerning himself with the 47 percent of Americans that he feels are dependent on government, according to Politicalwire, a beltway blog about politics. (Here’s my post on the matter from earlier today, with the video if you still haven’t [...]
One Dem Party That Donna Perry Doesn’t Understand
First, right off the bat: anyone who uses the phrase “Democrat Party” is already showing their ignorance of the Democratic Party. You should still read their arguments, but chances are, they’re going to be off-base. And that’s what Donna Perry’s column in GoLocalProv is (the URL says Julia Steiny for some reason). Ms. Perry tries [...]
Overzealous Security Guard at Hinckley Fundraiser
While Barry Hinckley was inside the Ocean House wining and dining with Steve Forbes, the only man richer than Mitt Romney to run for president since Ross Perot, I was being verbally accosted outside by a security detail while the Raging Grannies sang a catchy tune. I had shown up at the Ocean House, a [...]
Raging Grannies Protest Forbes, Hinckely Event
Steve Forbes, a multi-failed candidate for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, will be hosting a fundraiser for Barry Hinckley’s campaign and the Raging Grannies of Greater Westerly will be present at 4:45pm to welcome them. The event will be at The Ocean House in Watch Hill on Wednesday, August 29. Mr. Forbes is [...]
The Video Barry Hinckley Doesn’t Want You to See
It must be that Barry Hinckley really doesn’t want Rhode Islanders to see the video we posted of him telling out-of-state donors that although they can’t vote for him, he will vote for them if they help fund in Senate campaign. It’s a damaging look at his candidacy, especially since he has already been labelled [...]
Barry Hinckley Is For Sale
Barry Hinckley isn’t running for a seat in the Senate to represent Rhode Island, he’s running to represent donors to his campaign – he doesn’t even care whether they live in the Ocean State or not. Here’s his message to donors: “Hi, I’m Barry Hinckley. I’m the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate here in Rhode [...]
‘Lifelong New Englander’ or One-Time Floridian?
First he was accused of running for office just to boost his professional profile. Now, Democrats say Barry Hinckley may have moved to Rhode Island just to run for office. “…now Democrats are questioning whether Hinckley simply chose Rhode Island because it is relatively affordable to run for a Senate race in the Ocean State,” [...]
Is Barry Hinckley’s Senate Campaign on Life Support?
If it’s true that campaign donations determine a candidate’s success then Barry Hinckley might be in some early trouble. The rookie Republican who is challenging progressive Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse for his seat in the Senate seems to be inflating his fundraising prowess a bit. In a press release earlier this week, Hinckley’s campaign said he [...]
Barry’s Hot Over Sheldon’s Break from Bill Debate
Sheldon Whitehouse’s brief break from Monday night’s Senate debate over his DISCLOSE Act left Republican challenger Barry Hinckley a little hot under the collar…hot enough to call a press conference outside Whitehouse’s Westminster Street office on a 95-degree Tuesday afternoon to assail the Democratic incumbent. He parried questions about these charges by pivoting to jobs. “Why is [...]
RI Progress Report: Arbor Day, Netroots Nation, Medical Marijuana, Muslim Brotherhood, Maria Cimini, ALEC
Happy Arbor Day, Rhode Island! Hug a tree today. Or, even better, plant one. Don’t expect much protest at Netroots Nation here in Providence in June, says Ted Nesi, but do expect a visitor from the White House. Meanwhile … Netroots Sweeden starts today. In the federal governments’ latest attempt to trample state’s rights and [...]
RI Progress Report: Teachers v. Tuition, Ciccone, RIP Peter Lord
Rightfully, Sen. Frank Ciccone is emerging as the biggest loser in the incident in which his senate colleague Dominick Ruggerio was arrested for allegedly driving drunk and refusing a breathalyzer. Ciccone is accused of attempting to coerce Barrington police officers to let Ruggerio off by threatening legislative retribution. We’re not sure exactly which is more [...]
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