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1:05 PM Fri, Sep 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples JOURNAL STATE HOUSE BUREAU PROVIDENCE -- Barely two months have passed since Governor Carcieri signed a state budget packed with controversial cuts he said would close Rhode Island's largest deficit in nearly two decades. But already, another......
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11:51 AM Fri, Sep 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
State House regular Matt Auten has a new job. After five years of working for environmental advocacy groups -- most recently Environment Rhode Island -- Auten has been tapped by Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts as her senior policy analyst. Auten,......
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9:40 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Marilyn Trillo of Warwick, Miss Rhode Island in 1967 and runner-up in that year's Miss America Pageant, can identify with Sarah Palin. The 44-year-old Alaska governor was Miss Wasilla 1984 and runner up to Miss Alaska. So when John McCain......
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9:27 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
One of the subplots of the Republican National Convention is the plank in the McCain-Palin platform that -- in a departure from GOP presidential nominee John McCain's earlier position -- calls for exploration of domestic oil and gas reserves. Or......
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6:52 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Convention-goers Governor Carcieri and wife, Sue, went to a private lunch today where GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin was the featured guest. The governors joined Palin for a news conference/, which was covered by national media, according to Carcieri's......
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6:47 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau Rhode Island Republican Chairman Giovanni Cicione described the challenge that vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin faced last night in what he called, "an incredibly important speech.'' He said, "The country didn't know her.......
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6:37 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau Rookie Rhode Island delegate Dennis Michaud had no trouble arriving at an unshakable prediction after cheering vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech last night to the Republican Convention. But first, he said, "I'm......
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6:30 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau "We're not done yet,'' Rhode Island delegation Rob Manning said today of the Republican presidential nominee John McCain's sendoff to the fall campaign. With running mate Sarah Palin's convention job done -- and......
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12:28 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
There does lie ahead the matter of a general election to win. But during the afterglow of Sarah Palin's lavishly praised speech last night, some of the veteran pols in Rhode Island's Republican delegation allowed themselves -- first, a communal......
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9:29 AM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
How she carried outside to the nation's prime-time television viewers may be another matter -- or at least the Obama-Biden campaign will hope so -- but inside a hockey palace in St. Paul last night, Sarah Palin built one of......
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8:00 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Now is the time that all good surrogates come out to rally the troops -- and nurture the most tenuous connections to far-flung delegations such as Rhode Island's. For Navy lifers like John McCain and his stand-ins, that isn't too......
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3:27 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
A new line of counterattack is emerging from defenders of Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention: the Alaska governor is being held to a standard that critics would never impose on a male politician. Former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift......
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1:53 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Governor Carcieri warmed up the Rhode Island GOP convention delegation this morning for the high-stakes, prime-time speech by his fellow governor from Alaska, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. ``Let me tell you, you are in for a treat tonight,'' Carcieri......
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1:12 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rhode Island House Minority Leader Robert Watson has summoned the state's GOP convention delegation to a challenge that should come a lot easier here than it did to the Democrats who convened in Denver last week: ``A unanimous vote......
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8:19 AM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Meet John McLane, tactical party-switcher, Hoosier, proud member of the vast right-wing conspiracy. A group of Rhode Island conventioneers encountered the Republican from Indianapolis on the mezzanine of a downtown St. Paul hotel yesterday as they lined up for a......
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8:09 AM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Dueling slogans are at work around this summer's national conventions -- with an Internet twist. Delegates heading into St. Paul on one interstate are greeted with a billboard that says, ``Close Guantanamo, Stop Torture & Investigate Abuses.'' Its Website signature......
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7:13 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Governor Carcieri flew into the Twin Cities airport late this afternoon, with time enough to check into the Rhode Island delegation hotel in Bloomington and rush to St. Paul for a pre-convention gathering of anti-abortion delegates near the Excel Energy......
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6:54 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The state judiciary responded this evening to inquiries about renovations outside state Supreme Court offices that include the installation of 23-karat gold leaf on the ceiling trim. "We had peeling paint, we had deteriorating plaster, we had stained......
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6:43 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
The Rhode Island GOP has named an almost-House candidate as the volunteer coordinator for the McCain for President effort in Rhode Island. The party's new executive director, Marc Pappas, confirmed today that state Republican chairman Giovanni Cicione tapped Eileen Grossman......
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6:17 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Is there anybody in American politics who is more cheerfully despised by the left and the right than Joe Lieberman? Tonight's headliner has long been suspect in some liberal precincts for his view that Hollywood helped to coarsen the popular......
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5:38 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- A familiar face in State House hallways is leaving town. Ari Savitzky, the young director of the advocacy organization FairVote RI, is going to law school. The 24-year-old had been on the job for a year. New FairVote......
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4:56 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington bureau ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Some of the biggest excitement for Rhode Island delegates to the Republican convention this week fizzled this afternoon when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's appearance at a long-anticipated gathering of......
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3:57 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The state judiciary has yet to respond to inquiries about renovations outside the office of Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams that include the installation of 23-karat gold leaf on the ceiling trim. Judiciary spokesman Craig N.......
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2:57 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Rhode Island top Republican has joined the state's delegation to the party's convention in St. Paul. Governor Carcieri and his wife, Sue, arrived in this afternoon at the Twin Cities airport. If all goes according to schedule, they may catch......
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2:36 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Former Rhode Island House Minority Leader Brad Gorham is on hand for his second Republican convention, having traveled to Dallas 24 years ago for Ronald Reagan's nomination to run for a second presidential term. Gorham is also a longtime supporter......
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2:33 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
The scramble is on for the hottest ticket in town -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's appearance late today at a gathering of abortion foes a few blocks from the Republican National Convention hall in St. Paul. There aren't enough tickets......
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2:29 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Not every detail is nailed down yet, but the Republican National Convention is going full speed ahead tonight, having weathered a big course change in response to Hurricane Gustav. ``We lost a lot of opportunities to communicate last night'' with......
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10:23 AM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
AP photo U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., waves as he tours the podium at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., today. He's scheduled to speak tonight. The most urgent worries about Gulf coast hurricane damage are ebbing,......
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4:07 PM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
John McCain's chief economic policy adviser was one of the first campaign operatives to meet the press in the moments after the announcement that 17-year-old Bristol Palin, daughter of McCain's vice presidential candidate, is pregnant. It did not appear to......
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3:17 PM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
GOP conventioneers already adjusting to the disruption caused by Hurricane Gustav are suddenly reacting to the news that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. Rhode Island delegate Kristine Greene suggested that many voters will react to the word......
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12:33 PM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
By John E. John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau From the Republican National Convention, Department of Silver Linings: Rhode Island Republican Chairman Giovanni Cicione encouraged fellow delegates at their organizing meeting this morning to be on the lookout for blessings......
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12:22 PM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau MINNEAPOLIS -- Republicans from around the country attended their welcoming gala last night at the Minndeapolis Convention Center in an atmosphere of uncertainty and some disappointment about how their national gathering will proceed......
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10:40 AM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee is headed for the Gulf Coast area to join in some repair work -- not on hurricane damage, but on the republic. The Rhode Islander will try to rally independents and Republicans to help elect Democratic......
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10:33 AM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
As the Republicans adjust their schedule for their convention to cope with Hurricane Gustav's, you can keep up with the latest by checking projo.com's home page under the headline Campaign 2008. We're also expecting Journal Washington bureau chief John E.......
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5:25 PM Sun, Aug 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau There were bright skies and fair breezes outside the Rhode Island Republican delegation's hotel room near the Minneapolis airport at 3 p.m. Sunday as members sat in a lounge watching candidate John McCain on......
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