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Rhode Island's two Democratic senators -- Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse -- joined their colleagues in supporting a test vote early Monday morning on President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul.
All 58 Democrats and the Senate's two independents held together against unanimous Republican' [...]
Sheldon Whitehouse's speech on Republican obstruction of health care reform this weekend makes some powerful arguments about a GOP trading in wanton mistruths and willing, even, to hold up a key defense appropriation in its efforts to block passage of the bill.
But it is his comparison of the opposition to Nazi brownshirts and [...]
The Rhode Island Republican Party took note of a poll released yesterday by Brown University, with Party Chair Giovanni Cicione commenting that “it should send a clear signal to Attorney General Patrick Lynch that the voters of Rhode Island are starting to see the truth about [...]
Tom Clupny, our Republican Candidate who is running for House of Representatives in the District 62 (Pawtucket/East Providence) Special Election, will be making a guest appearance on two television talk shows this week.
Tonight at 8:00 PM he will be on the “Tax Payers Talk Back”. The [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The leaders of the largest state employees union are denouncing Governor Carcieri's deficit-elimination plan as the "wrong idea at the wrong time.''
Republican Carcieri has proposed $125 million in municipal aid cuts, as part of his newly released plan for averting a potential $219 million deficit in" [...]
Earlier this year, the House Republicans created a video, “Never Again,” to speak against President Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay prison. Since the announcement was made that some Guantanamo Bay prisoners will be moved to Illinois, they felt the video worth highlighting again. GOP.gov has an entire section on [...]
By Katie Mulvaney
Journal Staff Writer
Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson says that race and gender have no bearing on the quality of one's decision-making, but that individual life experiences lend different perspectives to any discussion.
Thompson's statements came in response to questions posed to her by Republican [...]
On December 29th, we will get our next chance to show that voters are finally ready for some real change.
TOM CLUPNY is the Republican candidate for State Representative in House District 62, in the December 29 special election to replace Rep. Liz Dennigan. District 62 is [...]
On December 16th, from 7:00 PM to -10:00 PM at 1149 Restaurant in Warwick, the Rhode Island Young Republicans will be hosting the 2009 RIGOP Christmas Party.
The event will be fully catered all night with a cash bar. We have also partnered with the RI Community Food [...]
In this week’s Republican address, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee discusses President Obama’s frightening environmental policy.
Click here to view the embedded video.
This is an excerpt of her comments:
President Obama himself has said that as a result of this national energy tax, electricity prices would, and I quote, “necessarily skyrocket.” [...]
Rhode Island’s largest conservative organization (and sponsor of this blog), the RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY, will hold its next general meeting on Thursday, January 14th, 2010.
The meeting will be held in the lower-level of the Tri-City Elk’s Lodge No. 14, at 1915 West Shore Road, in [...]
Rory Smith, a newcomer to politics who had been actively considering a run for Rhode Island governor in 2010 as a Republican, has just issued a press release backing out of the race. Here is his statement:
After spending the last few months considering a run for [...]
Republican candidate for governor Rory Smith announced Friday afternoon that he's backing out of the race.
The announcement comes just 52 days after the East Greenwich businessman filed paperwork with the state Board of Elections indicating his intent to run.
The announcement reads:
"After spending the last" [...]
The East Bay Republicans PAC will be holding a Breakfast on Saturday, December 12th, beginning at 9:30 AM. It will be held at the Best Western/Mainstay Inn, on 151 Admiral Kalbfus Road in Newport, Rhode Island (Opposite “Newport Grand”).
The Guest Speaker will be State Representative John [...]
I would like to thank a member of the Platform Committee for making a most accurate and telling observation that several Conservative members of the Platform Committee were not in attendance for the last several meetings. Now we know that without the Republican Conservatives present, the Platform Committee’s remaining members [...]
The Rhode Island Republican Party's scuffle over a platform that would embrace candidates with moderate positions on social issues like abortion is, perhaps, the worst signal the state GOP could send at this moment.
Anti-incumbent feeling is brewing nationwide as the economy continues to struggle and health care reform tumbles in [...]
A GOP counter-delegation is forming to undermine the Obama administration’s work on an international climate change agreement in Copenhagen, warning that the president is poised to make commitments he can’t keep and drawing heightened attention to controversial leaked e-mails.
At least a half-dozen Republican senators and representatives [...]
Massachusetts voters go to the polls today for Democratic and Republican primaries in the race to replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy, father of Rhode Island Representative Patrick Kennedy.
Martha Coakley, the only of the four Democratic candidates who has run statewide before, has held a solid lead in public polling [...]
NEWPORT, R.I. - State Republicans will gather here on Tuesday night to adopt their election-year platform.
A proposal to "end political dynasties in the state by imposing term limits'' on state lawmakers is among the more controversial proposals up for debate when the 200-plus members of the Republican State Central" [...]
By Katie Mulvaney
Journal staff writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson on Tuesday sailed through the first leg of her confirmation as a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge. Not a single Republican member attended her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, indicating to Democratic supporters [...]
BOSTON (AP) -- Debates, media interviews and a calculated targeting of likely voters will be the hallmarks of the final week in the primary campaign to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The four Democrats and two Republicans battling to succeed the liberal lion face off in Dec. 8 primaries. The [...]
