Huge Night for Rhode Island Progressives
Brendan Doherty, Mark Binder and even, to some extent, Mitt Romney, all made Rhode Island progressives nervous throughout the 2012 campaign season. But once the campaign was over and the votes were counted, it turned out to be a great election day to be a local liberal. Easily the biggest victory was Congressman David Cicilline [...]
Cicilline Beats Doherty
While the campaign was heated, the actual election was less so. Congressman David Cicilline easily held onto his seat defeating Brendan Doherty 50% to 42. Without further adieu, here’s some video of his victory speech: His fellow Rhode Island progressive Senator Sheldon Whitehouse also won, handily beating Barry Hinckley 64.3 to 35.5%. I’ll have video [...]
Carcieri on Negative Campaigns, Casinos and Clean Water
Of all the journalists former Governor Don Carcieri didn’t want to see at the polls today, I’m sure I was high on that list given all the grief I’ve given him over 38 Studios. But to his credit, he answered my questions (after, I should add, I pleaded with him that it would mean a [...]
Progress Report: Election Day! Dixville Notch Results In; Baited Breath in CD1; Obama Enjoys 92% Chance of Victory
The votes are already coming in … up in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, traditionally the first town in America to report its results, Obama and Romney have battled to a draw among the 10 voters there. Let’s hope the David Cicilline fares better in the 1st District than Obama did in Dixville, though it could [...]
Doherty Shows Uncommon Lack of Integrity in Bid
Intergrity. Really? INTEGRITY. Mr. Doherty’s latest attack ad on television towards Congressman David Cicilline is loaded with insinuation, negative innuendo, a bit of or no truth at all. Remember, Mr. Doherty approved this divisive negative ad. I was also recently subjected to a robot-call – a female spewing half-truths and innuendo in a very snide [...]
Gemma-esque: Brendan Doherty’s Fake Followers
Since the beginning of campaign season, RIFuture has taken the lead in exposing shenanigans of various political campaigns, such as the story about Anthony Gemma’s suspicious social media practices. The story would eventually be picked up locally by WPRO, the Associated Press and Politico, among others. Interestingly, it seems that the Brendan “Uncommon Integrity” Doherty [...]
Jimmy Cliff on GOTV
Godspeed to all the progressive and liberal politicians, activists and supporters who will spend the next four days literally getting out the vote. Really, best of luck to everyone on the political spectrum … but here in the RI Future newsroom, where we’ll be monitoring the last 100 or so hours of the 2012 election, [...]
Send Congressman David Cicilline Back to Beltway
Congressman David Cicilline made some mistakes as Mayor of Providence. He made some enemies and he also made some friends. Many will say that a vote for David will be only to prevent the loss of a Democratic seat in the House of Representatives to a Republican. Fair enough. However, to Congressman Cicilline’s credit, he [...]
Progress Report: State of Local Media; At Last, Three-Way Debate; Energy Politics; Dems on Doherty Gets Little Press
Every progressive – indeed every Rhode Islander, if not all Americans! – owe it to themselves to spend some time reading Providence Monthly’s awesome feature on the state of journalism in Rhode Island. The magazine put together a group of the best and brightest reporters we’ve got here in the Ocean State who kicked around [...]
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, Halloween/Post-Sandy Edition: Cicilline, Doherty Neck and Neck; Pols Without Power, Ocean Mist
It seems in David Cicilline’s struggle to retain his seat in Congress that it will all come down to the so-called ‘get out the vote’ efforts, or the boots on the ground in the final few days of the campaign, according to a new WPRI poll that shows Cicilline with a 1 point lead over [...]
Progress Report: Hurricane Sandy Edition; Debate Schedule; Paving URI for Parking Lot; 10 Best Gaffs
While the wind is honking early this semi-stormy morning, the significant weather from Hurricane Sandy will be the when the moon tide high hits later tonight. The full moon high tide typically causes a little flooding all over the Ocean State; couple that with the wall of water a hurricane pushes along and we’ve got [...]
ProJo Endorses Doherty; But Clinton Backs Cicilline
The Providence Journal may have endorsed Brendan Doherty but Bill Clinton endorsed David Cicilline … and, really, who’s endorsement would you rather have? Kidding aside, the ProJo lays out a pretty honest assessment of the Cicilline/Doherty race with its editorial this morning. They call Cicilline a good mayor who was dishonest at the tail end [...]
Progress Report: Ugly Campaign Olympics; Brien Down to Last Strike, ProJo for Warren; NEA-RI to NK: We Bat Last
I’m starting to get the feeling that Brendan Doherty doesn’t even want to serve in Congress. If he did, he’d probably audition for the job a just little bit rather than just trying to convince voters to reject incumbent David Cicilline. This campaign has become ridiculously negative, and their debates remind me of when my [...]
What’s at Stake Nov. 6: Our Shared Federal Lands
One of Clean Water Action’s core missions is to make democracy work. The cornerstone of this strategic focus is to hold our elected officials accountable to voters. A crucial problem underlying many pollution problems, we believe, is an imbalance of political power that distorts our political system and hampers good policy. The protection of the [...]
Still Waiting for Doherty’s Uncommon Integrity
Aside from holding political persuasions that would – in my opinion – be bad for Rhode Island, Brendan Doherty may well be a good, honest guy. I don’t know as I haven’t met him. But I do know this, his campaign for Congress is not exhibiting “uncommon integrity” as the Republican often claims. In fact, [...]
Brendan Doherty Points
Most people know that pointing is rude. Have you ever noticed how much Brendan Doherty points? Have you ever wondered what’s on his mind? Now you can see what Brendan Doherty is really thinking when he’s trying to point things out at Brendan Doherty Points.
Progress Report: Doherty Ducks Civil Rights Debate; Fox Faces Binder; ProJo Layoffs Imminent; Veep Debate
If you want to know why Brendan Doherty didn’t want to participate in a debate his fellow CD1 candidates on civil rights issues, try reading the first paragraph of the ProJo’s story. “The 1st Congressional District candidates who attended this forum agreed on just about everything — that Republicans want to ‘roll back’ reforms that [...]
Doherty Declines Invite to Debate Civil Rights
Evidently a debate on civil rights isn’t something Brendan Doherty thinks would be helpful to his campaign. The Republican ex-cop is the only CD1 candidate not to accept an invitation to a debate being hosted by the Rhode Island Civil Rights Roundtable, billed by the group as “an opportunity to hear these candidates debate issues [...]
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 [...]
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