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September 2006 Archives
12:44 AM Wed, Sep 13, 2006 | Permalink |
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While the state Board of Elections has released the final unofficial results in today's primary elections, it could take weeks for the results to be made official. According to the state: "The Board of Elections cannot certify the election results......
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12:28 AM Wed, Sep 13, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The state Board of Elections has released the final unofficial numbers in today's primary races with each of Rhode Island's 515 precincts reporting. Most of the mail ballots are also included in the final figures posted on the board's Web......
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11:50 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
In the Democratic primary for the Secretary of State, Ralph Mollis was holding a commanding lead over DeRamel with 97 percent of the vote counted. The unofficial count from the Board of Elections had Mollis leading 39,952 to to 35,679,......
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11:34 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey watches the results come in with his daughter, Sarah, 9, and wife, Kelly, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, before conceding the race for the Republican nomination for U.S.......
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11:33 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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U.S. Rep. James R. Langevin today turned back an aggressive challenge from Brown University professor Prof. Jennifer Lawless in the Democratic primary for the 2nd Congressional District seat. And Jonathan P. Scott easily topped Edmund R. Leather in the Republican......
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11:29 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Former Adjunct Gen. Reginald A. Centracchio secured the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor yesterday, beating retired insurance executive Kernan "Kerry" F. King by a two-to-one margin. "There is no right more precious than the right to vote. My life's work......
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11:25 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Two incumbent mayors won against challengers in their primaries, but a third lost to the man he'd unseated two years ago. Unofficial results from today's primary election showed Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline and Pawtucket Mayor James E. Doyle handily......
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11:20 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Buoyed by his overwhelming primary win, Sheldon Whitehouse says voters "want to see our country take a new direction." Whitehouse sailed through a Democratic primary for U.S. Senate yesterday, defeating a newcomer on the statewide political landscape as well as......
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10:39 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
With 372 of 515 precincts reporting, according to state figures, Sheldon Whitehouse was pulling in 45,270 votes, or 81.88 percent, over his challengers, Christopher F. Young, with 5,850 votes, or 10.58 percent, and Carl L. Sheeler, 4,168, or 7.54......
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10:27 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
As of 10:21 p.m., with 338 of 515, or 66 percent of precincts reporting statewide, former state Adj. General Reginald Centracchio held a commanding lead over Kernan King for the Republican nomination in the lieutenant governor's race, 24,759, or 67......
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9:58 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PAWTUCKET -- Mayor James E. Doyle, the Democratic incumbent, appears to be leading his challenger, Thomas McGill, by a 2-1 lead. In the only City Council seat primary, Democrat Henry S. Kinch Jr. was leading incumbent Albert J. Vitale jr.......
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9:49 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
With 40 percent of the precincts reporting, the incumbent Rep. James Langevin holds a solid lead over challenger Jennifer Lawless: Langevin has 8,394 votes, while Lawless has 5,193 in an unofficial tally from the Board of Elections. More to come.........
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9:49 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
CUMBERLAND -- At the headquarters for incumbent Mayor David S. Iwuc headquarters, it's very quiet as the numbers start rolling in, and it looks like it may be a blowout for Democratic challenger Daniel J. McKee. -- Journal staff writer......
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9:45 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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In the race for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, Reginald Centracchio is dominating his opponent, Kernan "Kerry" King. With roughly 40 percent reported, Centracchio has 18,516 votes, while King has 9,108. More to come.........
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9:12 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The crowd gathered at the Chafee party inside the Biltmore hotel is upbeat while awaiting the results of today's primary. As of 9:20 p.m., Chafee was reported to be inside the hotel, but not in the ballroom with......
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9:01 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Polls have closed across the state and the Board of Elections will soon begin putting out unofficial results in the various primary battles. Projo.com will post the results as soon as they become available.........
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9:00 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photos / Andrew Dickerman, left, and John Freidah, right At left, incumbent Lincoln Chafee watches youngsters dance as he's interviewed by journalists in front of Barrington Middle School. At right, his challenger, Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey, arrives at......
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8:40 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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With interest in the Chafee, Laffey race, the state record for turnout in a Republican primary may be broken today. That mark -- 45,023 voters -- was set in the 1994 Republican primary when gubernatorial candidates Ron Machtley and Lincoln......
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8:20 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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North Providence Mayor A. Ralph Mollis ended his day outside the polling place at the Elmwood Community Center in Providence, shaking voters' hands with his wife, Laurie, at his side. On a street corner near the community center, dozens of......
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7:56 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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While the vote on a proposed West Warwick casino is nearly two months away, casino supporters showed up in force at polling places around the state during today's primary election. "Support the Narragansett Indian Casino! Vote YES on question #1......
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7:46 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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Sen. Lincoln Chafee and Stephen Laffey will learn the results of today's primary along with their campaigns at pre-planned "victory parties." The Chafee campaign will be on the 17th floor of the Providence Biltmore hotel inside the main ballroom. Laffey,......
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5:36 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
projo.com photo / Kate Bramson Robert W. Martin, 36, Warwick's Webmaster, spreads his message every day, not just on primaries and elections. “IVOTE,” cried out the little red Mini Cooper in the parking lot at Warwick City Hall today.......
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4:08 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Kris Craig John Leo, foreground, and Jason Siegel were among those signing disaffiliation papers after voting today at the Jewish Community Center in Providence. WARWICK -- A desktop paper cutter at the Board of Canvassers office......
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3:55 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Kris Craig Gavriel, 3, and Leah, 1, went to vote with their parents Shani and Dovid Schwartz at the JCC. Journal photo / Frieda Squires Bill Foley and Dot Murray, supervisors at Matunuck Elementary School in......
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12:56 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Outside Cranston City Hall this morning two "Keep Chafee" signs competed with two "Laffey U.S. Senate" signs along with red, white and blue signs for a local city council race, the state Senate District 28 race and the Cranston mayoral......
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12:04 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
The city of Cranston is running low on voter disaffiliation forms, even after the state sent more forms today, according to the city's Canvassing Department. When unaffiliated voters cast ballots in a party primary, they automatically become registered with that......
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11:53 AM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
At the single polling place for Richmond, the Richmond-Carolina Fire District Station House on Route 112, a polling official said the town had "never" had a turnout for a primary like it's having today. By 11 a.m., 178 votes had......
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7:26 AM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island schools are closed today for primary elections. It's a new law that went into effect in late June without the governor's signature. The Board of Elections says it proposed the change for the students' safety while......
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6:57 PM Mon, Sep 11, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Despite its status as the smallest state in the country, Rhode Island has a habit of attracting the national eye toward its political scene. Its founding as a haven by colonists seeking religous freedom has made its name synonymous with......
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