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In a campaign-worthy performance, General Treasurer Frank Caprio this morning rebutted Steve Laffey's recent criticism of him and his management of Rhode Island's state pension fund, signaling the continued opening shots of the 2010 gubernatorial...
Lincoln Chafee, part of a group of present and former Republicans who rallied behind Barack Obama, will be among the Obama supporters camped out in Chicago this evening. Chafee, of course, has been theorized about as a member of an Obama administration...
Steve Laffey, the unannounced Republican gubernatorial candidate for 2010, recently took a cross-country tour with his family, landing in time to see C.C. Sabathia make his first outing for the Brewers. Laffey says visiting Mount Rushmore was the top...
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Given all the controversy that washes up on the front door of the AG's office , who'd have thought that Patrick Lynch would be alone among Rhode Island's general officers in having an approval rating (52.1) that's over the 50 percent mark...
From Brown's Taubman Center : If the election were held today, 47 percent of the registered voters in Rhode Island say they will vote for Obama, 34 percent for McCain, and approximately 19 percent are undecided. In a Taubman Center poll conducted...
Kathy Gregg offers some info familiar to readers of the RI blogosphere in her roundup today on the 2010 governor's race , but she does score a scoop by reporting on how Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian is backing away from the contest. These are the most...
Robert Manning, RI's GOP National Committeeman, says the varying alliances of himself (with Steve Laffey) and Scott Avedisian (with Linc Chafee) are unrelated to Avedisian's challenge to his position. Last week, N4N reported that Avedisian and Joe Trillo...
Dan Barry , former ProJo scribe-turned-NY Times reporter-and-acclaimed author, makes another one of his occasional forays back to Rhode Island, offering a sharp column today on Buddy Cianci and his perch at WPRO: At first, Mr. Cianci says, “I was rather...
UPDATE II: AVEDISIAN, TRILLO COMMENT (I've left a message for Manning). Avedisian, Trillo, and the RI GOP's Donna Perry all downplay the significance of the three-way Republican National Committeeman race in relation to particular candidates and the 2010...
Speaking of Laffey, he, during his Channel 10 appearance, outlined a bold plan to grow GOP representation in the General Assembly. Why isn't it happening? asked Jim Taricani. As I recall, Laffey said the responsibility belongs, in part, with the governor...
Steve Laffey makes for entertaining TV, so would he make for an entertaining (and effective) governor? These questions will come front and center as we move closer to 2010. During an appearance yesterday on 10 News Conference , Laffey repeated many of...
As we know, former US senator Lincoln Chafee has kept his options open for 2010, variously talking up his prospective interest in being general treasurer, mayor of Providence , or governor. But as I write in this week's Phoenix , the most tasty choice...
As part of the ongoing publicity rounds for his new book, Linc Chafee taped WPRI-WNAC's Newsmakers this morning. The show will be broadcast Sunday, at 5:30 am on Channel 12 and at 10 am on Fox 64. Here's a short version of some of the highlights: -- Why...
Linc Chafee, as we all know, has said goodbye to the Republican Party and embraced the Obama campaign . And in a letter to the editor in today's ProJo , he asserts that his late father, former governor and US senator John Chafee , would not have supported...
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