What’s In A Name: RISC Meets Moderate Party
There’s something refreshingly honest about Ken Block and RISC coming together to form the RI Taxpayers organization. They are both now coming clean and admitting in monicker who it is they are actually advocating for. Say what you will about Ken Block’s policy proposals – and there some I like and many I don’t – [...]
Quiet Conservatives by Banning Master Lever
Moderate Party chairman and possible gubernatorial candidate Ken Block is out with a new website, masterlever.org, which petitions the Governor and the General Assembly to eliminate the ability to vote solely based on party line (a.k.a., the “master lever”). As a case study for why it should be banned, Mr. Block offers up the 9000+ [...]
Don’t Rule Moderates Out
In a year where there were only four candidates across the state marked as belonging to the Moderate Party on the ballot (most people never saw them and the fifth and sole successful Moderate Party candidate ran in a nonpartisan race), 9249 voters used the so-called “master lever” to vote for the Moderate Party. With [...]
Rhode Island Republican Party On Life-Support
On Election Day 2012, there were 786 candidates for all offices across Rhode Island, from U.S. Senator to Town Sergeant. According to a list provided by the Secretary of State’s office, the make-up was such: 301 Democrats 209 Republicans 116 Independents 4 Moderates 1 Libertarian (Independent) 1 Vigilant Fox (Independent) 154 candidates for nonpartisan offices [...]
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