Friday: party with state’s top progressive Democrats
Sheldon Whitehouse, Angel Taveras, Rhoda Perry, Josh Miller, Maria Cimini, Edith Ajello, Paula Hodges and … Rudy Cheeks, together under one roof? It’s an all-star lineup of local progressive Democrats, and for good reason … it’s the Rhode Island Progressive Democrats Movers and Shakers fundraiser this Friday at Waterplace Restaurant from 7 to 9 pm. [...]
Sheldon Introduced Two of 2012 Most Important Bills
How important was the Ocean State’s own Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to the national progressive agenda in 2012? Two bills he sponsored in the year that was were flagged by ThinkProgress as being among the five most important pieces of legislation blocked by Republicans. Whitehouse’s DISCLOSE Act (which RI Future was the first news organization to [...]
Whitehouse: GOP Holding Middle Class Hostage
“Republicans fighting for millionaires and billionaires is not a new story,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the floor of the US Senate yesterday. It happens to be the current story too. Well, in the case of the fiscal cliff, House Republicans are actually fighting for the 2 percent, or the affluent American families who earn [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sheldon at Drinking Liberally Wednesday
Join us in welcoming Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to Drinking Liberally on Wednesday, October 24th from 7-9PM. Whether he’s fighting for the Buffet Rule, campaign finance reform, or reminding us that corporations aren’t people, Senator Whitehouse is always fighting liberally! What: DL with Sen Whitehouse! When: October 24th 7-9PM Where: Wild Colonial, 250 South Water St. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Politifact: Negative Ads Increasing Exponentially
“In this election cycle, things are already so negative, it’s hard to imagine that there’s much room for them to get more negative between now and November,” election expert Stephen Farnsworth told Gene Emery of the Projo’s Politifact team as he investigated the veracity of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s assertion that negative advertisements have increased since [...]
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: Netroots Preview, Myth of Union Power, Abortion Politics, 38 Studios and Scott Walker
Netroots Nation comes to Providence this week … you can expect a ton of coverage from us, both previewing the big progressive networking event and covering all the action on the panels, the keynote speakers, the parties and the protests. The Phoenix put together a great Netroots preview story last week (still on news stands [...]
RI Progress Report: Why Do Businesses Move to RI
Happy Easter! Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who has become one of the hottest politicians in the country as Congress begins to debate income inequality and corporate control, was on Newsmakers this morning. Forget about why people leave Rhode Island for a moment and consider why they come here. The Providence Journal reports this morning that even [...]
RI Says Happy Birthday Affordable Care Act
Today marks the second anniversary of the federal health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act. Here in Rhode Island elected officials, health care leaders, and Rhode Islanders who are benefiting for provisions of the law celebrated the passage in Providence. ”Although the country is still almost evenly divided over the Affordable Care Act, here [...]
Whitehouse Intros Super PAC DISCLOSE Bill
RI Future first reported this story Monday morning, but we thought you might want to know that it has now actually happened. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse introduced the DISCLOSE Act, which would require Super PACs and other anonymous political donors to stand by their TV ads by requiring that they put their names on them. “The [...]
Whitehouse Bill Would Regulate Super PAC Ads
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is planning on introducing new legislation later this week that would require Super PACs, corporations and other big donors to divulge their associations with political advertisements. “In the same way at the end of my ads I have to say, ‘I’m Sheldon Whitehouse and I approve this message,’” said the most progressive [...]
Progress Report: Whitehouse fights Super PACs, Gemma on Jobs, Chafee Muni Bill, Medical Marijuana and more
Rhode Island progressives, indeed progressives across the country, should be happy Sheldon Whitehouse is a Senator. Not only has he sponsored the Buffett Rule tax code improvement that would prevent millionaires from evading paying taxes on their earnings, he’s also leading the fight against Super PACs and the Citizen United SCOTUS decision, the Projo reports [...]
Senator Whitehouse explains the Buffett Rule
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, sponsor the so-called Buffett Rule, sat down with the Center for American Progress to discuss his bill for a mandatory income tax rate of 30 percent for millionaires. “Regular folks,” he said, think politics has become rigged to favor the richest Americans “and that’s a bad framework for people to be looking [...]
Feb 12: Sen. Whitehouse Community Dinner in Narragansett
As Rhode Islanders continue to struggle in this tough economy, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will host a community dinner in Narragansett this Sunday, to listen to local residents’ concerns and take questions. Sheldon will discuss his fight to support Rhode Island small businesses, preserve Social Security and Medicare benefits, and implement the “Buffett Rule” to make [...]
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