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October 2007 Archives
9:33 AM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter  Email
By calling on legislators to return their raises of recent years, Governor Carcieri last week begged this question: is he going to return the 12 percent, $12,623, raise he received last January? State Democratic party chairman Bill Lynch asked the......
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9:31 AM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In case you’re not tired of reading about the governor’s staff reduction plan … Aside from layoffs and contractor cuts, Governor Carcieri is calling for leaving roughly 400 vacancies unfilled. Political Scene has learned that exactly seven days before the......
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9:30 AM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Governor Carcieri’s new executive counsel, Kernan “Kerry” King, attended two of the three meetings that the Judicial Nominating Commission held last week to interview 14 candidates vying for a pair of District Court vacancies. In recent years, executive counsels have......
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9:29 AM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
By 2-to1, the members of Local 400, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, have voted in a new president. He is $53,550-a-year community liaison officer Brendan Fogarty, 46, a member of the Department of Transportation’s newly created constituent service......
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9:27 AM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Democrat Bruce G. Sundlun, governor from 1991 to 1995, and Republican Lincoln C. Almond, governor from 1995 union 2003, will share a platform at Common Cause of Rhode Island’s annual dinner meeting, on Nov. 7. The two will discuss Rhode......
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5:21 PM Wed, Oct 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- Former Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. is adding another new job title to his resume: Chief political analyst and contributing editor for WLNE-TV. The station says the once-imprisoned former mayor will start his new job on Nov.......
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9:28 AM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Governor Carcieri’s political coffers are almost empty. Only one year into his final four-year term, the term-limited Republican governor is spending more out of his “campaign” account than he is taking in, according to his latest report to the state......
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9:27 AM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
News Flash: Governor Carcieri intends to keep his communications director, Steve Kass. Earlier this month, an unidentified Carcieri backer leaked a now-famous memo to the news media containing a “strategic plan” for buffing up the governor’s image. Among the top......
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9:25 AM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In the oops category, a hiring notice came down almost as quickly as it went up for a new $130,000-a-year cabinet-level director of the state’s yet-to-be-fully established Department of Revenue. The application period was supposed to run from Oct. 15......
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9:24 AM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Tiny Rhode Island may be pretty much irrelevant in presidential politics, but once again, presidential aspirants are finding the state a hospitable place to raise campaign money. Not surprisingly, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is leading the pack in......
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9:24 AM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Speaking of presidential candidates … Clinton brings her presidential campaign to Rhode Island on Nov. 2 with a fundraiser at the East Greenwich home of Democratic Party activists Mark and Susan Weiner. The event is rescheduled from last month, when......
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9:23 AM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
For the record, both the House and the Senate are returning for a one-day special session next week. House leaders confirmed last week their plan to return for an Oct. 30 veto override session early. Senate President Joseph A. Montalbano,......
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9:21 AM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The Diabetes Foundation of Rhode Island will stage “Honor His Honor,” a “roast and toast” for Providence Municipal Court Judge Frank Caprio, on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Providence Marriott. The event will benefit Camp Surefire, a summer program......
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5:28 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
The state Democratic Party chairman today demanded a "retraction and apology" from Governor Carcieri for comments the governor made on a live radio program in which he questioned the need to have interpreters in courts and other state agencies. Chairman......
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9:22 AM Mon, Oct 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Attorney General Patrick Lynch has never been shy about his affinity for the governor’s office. Political Scene was curious if a recent staffing change may be a sign that Lynch is among the Democrats gearing up for 2008. Jeff Guimond......
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9:21 AM Mon, Oct 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Governor Carcieri has jumped into the Warwick political arena with a “dear Republican voter” letter. In actuality, the state GOP sent the “from the desk of Donald L. Carcieri” letter out in an effort to boost Republican Jonathan Wheeler’s candidacy......
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9:20 AM Mon, Oct 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The interest groups have not held back from pressuring legislative leaders to take up their issues in the much-anticipated special session planned for later in the month. Lobbyists have written letters, led phone call campaigns and held rallies in recent......
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9:19 AM Mon, Oct 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
One person you probably won’t see at the governor’s news conference today: Robert Walsh Jr., executive director of the National Education Association Rhode Island. It’s not that Walsh and other labor leaders won’t be affected by the governor’s plan to......
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9:18 AM Mon, Oct 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It’s unclear whether lawmakers will vote to move up Rhode Island’s presidential primaries to garner more attention from candidates. But Barack Obama’s campaign is scheduled to stop by Little Rhody next week regardless of the primary date. Obama’s campaign manager,......
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9:17 AM Mon, Oct 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Providence filmmaker Cherry Arnold’s Buddy, the documentary depicting the rise and fall of former Mayor Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr., is coming out on DVD. And not surprisingly, there will be a party to celebrate. The DVD release party is......
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6:05 PM Tue, Oct 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is inviting South County residents to dinner tomorrow night. The free event at the Elks Lodge in Wakefield is open to the public who’d like to hear about what he’s doing in the Senate and ask......
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9:53 AM Tue, Oct 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Embattled Senate Finance Chairman Stephen D. Alves, D-West Warwick, has lost his State House legal adviser. In recent weeks, former West Warwick Town Council president John Flynn made the big leap from being the Senate Finance Committee’s $73,459-a-year lawyer to......
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9:52 AM Tue, Oct 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
How many state workers contracted through private staffing firms make more than $200,000 each year? The answer is six, according to the latest round of newspaper ads taken out by Council 94, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.......
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9:51 AM Tue, Oct 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Speaking of talking… The governor’s office told Political Scene Friday that it had scheduled the first of the promised closed-door budget discussions with legislative and labor leaders. Carcieri unveiled a $200-million budget reduction plan in general terms last week at......
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9:50 AM Tue, Oct 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A lawsuit that the Society of Lloyd’s filed against former Gov. Bruce G. Sundlun is scheduled to go to trial in federal court in Providence on Thursday. But Sundlun’s lawyer, former state Supreme Court Justice Robert G. Flanders Jr., says......
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9:49 AM Tue, Oct 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts and her policy director, Jennifer Wood, headed to Taiwan late last week at the expense of the Taiwan government. While estimating the plane fare alone will cost about $4,000, Wood said the state’s $25 gift limit......
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9:49 AM Tue, Oct 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Kate Coyne-McCoy, of Scituate, who works at Emily’s List, the women’s Democratic Party fundraising network, has been named a fellow at Harvard University’s Women and Public Policy Program, which is under the university’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Coyne-McCoy......
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6:53 PM Thu, Oct 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
State Sen. Paul E. Moura said today he will introduce legislation to allow 24-hour gambling when a special session of the General Assembly convenes, possibly later this month. Moura used Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's recent announcement that he wants to......
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6:43 PM Thu, Oct 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
U.S. Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse spoke on the Senate floor yesterday about the late state Rep. Paul Crowley, who died last week in Newport. Their remarks were part of Senate proceedings carried live on C-Span2. “Paul's passion was......
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6:06 PM Mon, Oct 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- House Speaker William J. Murphy expects to introduce legislation to create a study commission to examine the issue of doing away with state pensions for new hires and to make recommendations to the legislature. Murphy, D-West Warwick, plans......
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9:32 AM Mon, Oct 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Topping off a list of noted politicos shifting jobs recently, lobbyist Thomas A. Palangio has left his job with the City of Providence, months after the city’s legislative package was shut out at the General Assembly. Mayor David N. Cicilline’s......
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9:31 AM Mon, Oct 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The Senate policy office has a new $103,568-a-year director: Marie L. Ganim. Well known in State House circles for her years of behind-the-scenes work on some of the biggest issues a legislature tackles in any state, Ganim, 53, of Lincoln,......
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9:30 AM Mon, Oct 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The state treasurer’s office confirmed Friday that it has recently hired two new staffers -- one of whom is a familiar face on Smith Hill. Cay C. Massouda has taken a job as a $45,931-a-year senior legal administrator. A State......
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9:29 AM Mon, Oct 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Her heart may be in Rhode Island, but former Miss Rhode Island Allison Rogers’ brain is working for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Washington, D.C. The 25-year-old Rhode Island native has moved to the nation’s capital to work for......
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9:27 AM Mon, Oct 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Several noted female politicos plan to attend a fundraiser later this month titled, “The Untold Story: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Women in Rhode Island Politics.” Among those planning to attend the event are former gubernatorial candidate Myrth......
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9:26 AM Mon, Oct 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The state GOP is counting on a fundraiser at Governor Carcieri’s summer home in Saunderstown (North Kingstown) to plump up its coffers. With ticket prices ranging from $50 per person to $90 per couple to $500 for “a sponsor," party......
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9:24 AM Mon, Oct 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Apparently one election wasn’t enough for A. Ralph Mollis. After winning his bid for secretary of state last fall, Mollis ran this summer for a seat on the executive board of the National Association of Secretaries of State, and was......
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