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2:40 PM Tue, Oct 31, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson  Email
Teamsters Local 251 today announced its endorsement of Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse’s campaign for U.S. Senate. Joseph J. Bairos, secretary-treasurer of Local 251, said in a news release that Whitehouse would be instrumental in the Senate in standing up to what......
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1:41 PM Tue, Oct 31, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
While recent polls put Sheldon Whitehouse as many as 10 points ahead of the incumbent Republican Lincoln Chafee, an article in today's Roll Call cites evidence that the national senatorial campaigns haven't written this one off: "Republican Senate losses in......
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1:40 PM Tue, Oct 31, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
With just seven days left before Election Day, Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty has a day packed with campaign events in his quest to become Rhode Island's next governor. 10 a.m. -- Attend a Neighborhood Health Plan of RI Press Conference,......
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6:43 PM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
JOHNSTON -- How do you fill time at a campaign rally when the featured speaker is a little late? When former First Lady Hillary Clinton wasn't ready to take the stage at the 1025 Club last Friday, Democratic operatives doled......
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2:30 PM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The public may not have access to state campaigns' final finance reports, known as "seven-day reports," until after Election Day. Tomorrow is the deadline for all candidates, political action committees and parties that have given or taken money......
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1:53 PM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
After tonight, the candidates for Rhode Island's high-profile U.S. Senate race may be able to relax. For a few minutes. For the fifth time, incumbent Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee and Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse will meet to debate -- the......
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1:38 PM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
CRANSTON -- Frank Mastrati Jr., a former Republican City Council president, has endorsed Democrat Michael T. Napolitano for mayor. Mastrati, a lawyer, served nine terms on the council and had once been considered a potential mayoral candidate himself. The endorsement......
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1:09 PM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
There's no shortage of irony this election season. Today, the Sheldon Whitehouse campaign began airing a new ad criticizing his opponent, Senator Lincoln Chafee, and national Republicans for running attack ads. That's right -- the new ad attacks Chafee for......
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10:37 AM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
First, you had the state Democratic Party hiring someone to videotape Republican Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee’s public appearances. Now the Republican governor’s reelection campaign has boarded the videotape-your-opponent bandwagon. At a news conference Wednesday at the Atwells Avenue campaign headquarters......
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10:11 AM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Opposing sides in the casino debate will host events today to build support for their arguments. At 11 a.m., Rhode Islanders for Jobs and Tax Relief, supporters of the proposed casino, promises to "connect the dots" for the media and......
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9:03 AM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
When a pollster asks whether a respondent knows who a candidate is, the presumption is that the pollster knows who the candidate is. Perhaps not so in Governor Donald Carcieri’s case. Carcieri campaign http://carcieriforgovernor volunteer Marge Gartelman says she got......
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9:01 AM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A political billboard is nothing remarkable in itself. There are many around the state this season. One of them, however, has an unusual subtitle. Motorists who’ve driven on northbound Route 95 in recent weeks may have noticed that underneath a......
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8:38 AM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
We’re entering the home stretch. This week offers a final chance to see and hear candidate debates. Here’s a sampling you can catch this week: Today at 4 p.m., the candidates for lieutenant governor -- Republican Reginald A. Centracchio www.reggiecentracchio.com,......
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8:33 AM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Well, that didn’t last long. In February, former federal prosecutor Lisa Dinerman joined the state courts system as deputy director of community outreach and public relations. But Dinerman left the job Oct. 6 to join the Providence law firm of......
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9:01 PM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
JOHNSTON – Hillary Clinton didn’t deliver any bombshells in the 17 minutes she spoke tonight. Besides a few references to Rhode Island, she gave the same party-line speech she has delivered dozens of times in recent weeks during her whirlwind......
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6:05 PM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
JOHNSTON_ Lombardi's 1025 is the venue for tonight's Rally for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Sheldon Whitehouse and a speech boosting Whitehouse by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. The old function room on Plainfield Street has seen many a......
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2:45 PM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Not heading over to the 1025 Club to see Hillary at the time for Sheldon? There's a local Congressional debate on tap that might spice up your evening. Incumbent Rep. Patrick Kennedy will face off with independent candidate Kenneth Capalbo......
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1:15 PM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Journal photo / Frieda Squires After being barred from the press conference today, Lacy Dwyer peeks through the windows to watch as former U.S. Attorney Margaret E. Curran endorses Chafee. PROVIDENCE -- The main stage was former U.S. Attorney......
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1:07 PM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- Former U.S. Attorney Margaret Curran, whose office prosecuted former Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr., today endorsed Lincoln Chafee for the U.S. Senate. With the election less than two weeks away, Chafee, a Republican trailing in the polls,......
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12:04 PM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty has a full schedule of events today and throughout the weekend in his campaign for governor. Fogarty started the day speaking before the CHisPA -- the Center for Hispanic Policy and Advocacy -- breakfast at the......
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11:42 AM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Mary Murphy U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, left, and Sheldon Whitehouse decide who will go first in their latest debate, held this morning before the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce at Kirkbrae Country Club in Lincoln.......
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11:15 AM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Candidates for all of Rhode Island's statewide political offices and the key U.S. Senate race spoke about how their policies would affect the state's Latinos at a breakfast this morning sponsored by CHisPA --......
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10:19 AM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee says former U.S. Attorney Margaret Curran, whose office prosecuted former Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr., will join him at noon today for a press conference. With the election less than two weeks away,......
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8:04 PM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The Sheldon Whitehouse campaign appears to have a significant advantage in cash on hand for the home stretch of the state’s U.S. Senate race, according to financial disclosure forms filed today with the Federal Election Commission. For the reporting period......
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7:53 PM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- Democratic Senate challenger Sheldon Whitehouse and the incumbent Governor Carcieri have double-digit leads over their opponents in a poll released today by Rhode Island College's Bureau of Government Research and Services. With the election just 12 days away,......
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5:05 PM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
JOHNSTON -- U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, former first lady and possible 2008 presidential candidate, is the latest political star scheduled to visit to the Ocean State on behalf of Democratic Senate candidate Sheldon Whitehouse. The New York Democrat --......
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5:01 PM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Journal photo / Kris Craig Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse, left, gave U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee a hard time today over his party ties to President Bush. During the duo's second TV debate, Chafee fired back that he didn't always......
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4:53 PM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Today is the deadline for federal candidates to submit their last campaign finance reports to the Federal Elections Commission before the Nov. 7 election. The reports will show how much money each campaign raised and spent between Oct. 1-18. And......
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4:50 PM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Rep. James Langevin's campaign announced four separate community endorsements today, including two organizations comprised of elderly members -- a.k.a., people who tend to vote. The Democratic congressman's endorsements include the American Nurses Association, the Rhode Island State Lodge Fraternal Order......
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1:30 PM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Governor Carcieri promised to create 20,000 jobs in Rhode Island during his first four years in office. That number may have sounded good at the time. In the four-year period before he took office in 2003, the Rhode Island economy......
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12:03 PM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Here's what the the gubernatorial candidates were officially up to today on the campaign trail. For the Carcieri campaign: 8- 9:30 a.m. -- Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce gubernatorial debate, Westin Hotel, One West Exchange Street, Providence 12:30 - 1:30......
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8:59 AM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE -- Journal political columnist M. Charles Bakst caught up with the contenders for governor just before their dollars-and-cents debate this morning sponsored by the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce. Outside the Westin Hotel, about six supporters from each campaign......
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7:30 PM Wed, Oct 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The National Organization for Women weighed in on Rhode Island's U.S. Senate race today, endorsing Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse over incumbent Republican Lincoln Chafee. The group has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters, at least one in every state, according......
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5:57 PM Wed, Oct 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski Carolyn Mark, president of the Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Women, speaks at the Voice Your Vote press conference today. PROVIDENCE -- More than 20 million single women did not vote......
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3:32 PM Wed, Oct 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri's campaign filed a complaint with the state Board of Elections today, accusing the union-backed group Working Rhode Island of illegally funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into this year's election. Carcieri has requested a temporary restraining......
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3:26 PM Wed, Oct 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The Providence Journal editorial board has released a schedule of its pending political endorsements. Saturday, Oct. 28: Massachusetts governor Sunday, Oct. 29: Rhode Island governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and Rhode Island attorney general Monday, Oct. 30: U.S. Senate for......
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1:25 PM Wed, Oct 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Here's what the two candidates for governor have going today. Governor Carcieri's campaign schedule for Wednesday was released last night: 8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. Interview with Elizabeth Gudrais from The Providence Journal 8:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. American Legion......
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1:22 PM Wed, Oct 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The national pollster Rasmussen Reports has released a new poll giving Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse an 8-point lead over the incumbent Republican Lincoln Chafee. Whitehouse leads 50 percent to 42 percent in a telephone survey of 500 likely voters conducted......
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12:32 PM Wed, Oct 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
There's no shortage of last-second press conferences today as candidates scramble for media coverage with the election now less than two weeks away. U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee held a press conference late this morning to continue his attacks against his......
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10:10 AM Wed, Oct 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE – U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee plans to hold a news conference at 11 a.m. today outside JKL Engineering, the company owned by Antonio R. Freitas, the Providence businessman who worked undercover for the FBI in the City Hall......
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7:38 PM Tue, Oct 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Hartford Courant Washington Bureau Chief David Lightman calls U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee "so unassuming he seems almost embarrassed to talk to voters" in a profile that ran in the Connecticut paper yesterday. On a similar note, The Providence Journal's Katherine......
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7:17 PM Tue, Oct 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse continues to hold a slight lead over U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee in the race for the Rhode Island Republican's seat, according to a poll released today by a national pollster. MSNBC-McClatchy released a survey conducted by Mason-Dixon......
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5:21 PM Tue, Oct 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Yesterday, the researcher behind University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth studies supportive of the proposed Harrah's-Narragansett Indian casino was mentioned in a Political Scene blog item about his plans to speak at a Harrah's-backed conference in Las Vegas next month. Today, Clyde W.......
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4:47 PM Tue, Oct 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
In the Cato Institute’s ranking of governors’ fiscal policy, Governor Carcieri has earned a C. The Washington-based think tank – which advocates small government and laissez-faire economics – lauded the Rhode Island Republican’s budget proposals for the spending cuts they......
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3:03 PM Tue, Oct 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE – Democratic Mayor David N. Cicilline leads his Republican opponent, Daniel Harrop, by 66 percent to 13 percent, with 21 percent undecided, according to a new citywide survey conducted by researchers at Brown University. That’s based on polling data......
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12:58 PM Tue, Oct 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Governor Carcieri and Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty will debate on issues affecting senior citizens at 1 p.m. today at the Pilgrim Senior Center, 27 Pilgrim Parkway, Warwick. The forum is being hosted by the Senior Agenda Coalition and Forum on......
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6:45 PM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Today, projo.com and The Providence Journal are introducing the Political Scene blog. The blog will draw on The Journal's political journalists and their network of contacts to give you the latest news and information on Rhode Island politics. The blog......
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6:34 PM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee's campaign started airing a new TV ad this week that challenges his opponent's ability to stand up for himself -- a sign that the last two weeks of the closely contested Senate race may not be......
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6:25 PM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- In a reminder that the Rhode Island's U.S. Senate race continues to draw national attention, New York's Sen. Charles Schumer is planning to attend a Sheldon Whitehouse fundraiser tomorrow afternoon in Providence. The Whitehouse campaign says that Schumer......
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6:15 PM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Edward Fitzpatrick Email
J. William W. Harsch, the Republican candidate for attorney general, today made a series of proposals for making the office more “open and accountable,” including open office hours, a toll-free tip line and elimination of the position of attorney general’s......
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4:28 PM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
After last week's less-than-friendly radio debate between Governor Carcieri and Lt. Gov. Charles J. Fogarty on the Dan Yorke Show, several listeners who phoned in afterward noted that throughout the debate Fogarty referred to Carcieri as “Governor,” while Carcieri called......
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4:27 PM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Maybe it’s just that Governor Carcieri likes to use nicknames. Sometimes, however, it’s best not to. That was the case last week when Carcieri spoke at a candidates’ forum on health care moderated by Channel 10 (WJAR) political reporter Bill......
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4:23 PM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
A sharp-eyed Political Scene reader recognized the setting for one of Fogarty’s new campaign ads and wrote to tell us the ad was filmed in the office of Rick McAuliffe, a prominent State House lobbyist who’s also finance chairman for......
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4:22 PM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
A prominent family name has never hurt in politics. And U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy — son of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy — poked a little fun at lineage last......
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4:21 PM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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