Daily Archive for December 15th, 2009

RI House District 62 Special Election | December 29th

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Dave Talan

ThomasClupnyOn 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 the Rumford section of East Providence, and the southeast part of Pawtucket (near Slater Park).

Tom has been ringing doorbells daily, and his volunteers have completed several lit drops in the District. Now, Tom needs volunteers to make phone calls; help with mailings; and do all sorts of things on election day. If you would like to help, contact Tom’s campaign manager (and son-in-law) Joe Giammarco at 781-910-7415 (E-Mail: Ltuta1 [at] aol [dot] com ).

Tom Clupny, age 65, lives on Bourne Ave. in Rumford. He is the Director of Environmental Affairs and Safety for RIPTA. Tom has lived in East Providence for 35 years. He is originally from Kansas, where he was raised on a family farm and served as a Deputy Sheriff.

Tom, a father and grandfather, is active with Sacred Heart Church and with the Knights of Columbus. He is a volunteer blacksmith at Coggeshall Farm Historic Museum.

Check out Tom’s web site at http://www.TomClupny.com

Tom Clupny is one of 3 candidates who have qualified to run. On December 29, he will face Democrat Mary Duffy Messier and Independent Paul Dinsmore. Tom is the Republican. Nobody from the Moderate Party filed to run.

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Filed Under: 2009 Elections, Coming Events, Republican Candidates and RI General Assembly Closed

RI Young Republicans to Host RIGOP Christmas Party | Wednesday Night

Posted on December 15, 2009 by The Ocean State Republican

RIYROn 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 Bank. Please keep this charity in mind before you head over to the 1149 on Wednesday night.

Merry Christmas!

Travis Rowley
RIYR, Chair

- The RI Community Food Bank -

The RICFB serves over 51,000 individuals a month year round. The food is distributed through a network of 285 member agency programs, that distributed over 9.5 million pounds of food last year. The holiday season is a time of great need. Any non-perishable item is good. Those in greatest demand are canned fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, canned tuna, dry cereals, canned and dry beans, pasta, rice and any canned meal. Thank you so much.

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Filed Under: Holidays, Republican Party and Young Republicans Closed Tags: .

Young Special-needs Child Suspended for Drawing Jesus

Posted on December 15, 2009 by The Ocean State Republican

cross-christmasT’is the Season. Not quite Rhode Island, but certainly close enough to us to hit home…

An 8-year-old special-needs child was suspended from school and forced to undergo psychiatric counseling over a picture he drew of Jesus Christ dead on the cross for a Christmas assignment.

School officials in Taunton, Mass., said the picture “violated the code of violence in the school handbook,” said Toni Saunders, an educational consultant on special-needs children with the Associated Advocacy Center who is working with the boy’s family.

“I couldn’t believe what they were telling me,” the boy’s father, Chester Johnson, who also works for the school system as a substitute custodian, told The Washington Times on Tuesday. “I asked her, ‘Are you fooling around?’”

Mr. Johnson said his son, who is a slow reader and has “a little speech problem,” now wants to transfer schools. Mr. Johnson requested that his son not be named.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Ms. Saunders added, referring to the suspension. “This is a very religious family. They felt violated because of this.”

The fracas began Thanksgiving night, when the boy was taken to see a Christmas display at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro, Mass. The next week, on Dec. 2, the boy’s teacher at Lowell M. Maxham Elementary School asked all the students to draw something that reminded them of Christmas, and the pupil drew a crucifix like the one he had seen at the display.

The boy then was taken to the principal’s office and asked why he drew this image.

Read More: The Washington Times

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Filed Under: Education, Holidays and Liberals and Leftists Closed

The Senate Needs to Hear from You on Healthcare ‘Reform’

Posted on December 15, 2009 by The Ocean State Republican

beware-obamacareToday as thousands are flocking to DC for the Code Red Rally at the Senate, it is imperative that we step it up with calls and faxes! We need you to start right now by calling all the Senators on the list then call your two Senators. After you accomplish that we need you to schedule your faxes or send your own.

The Senate Needs to Hear from You that Americans Don’t Want ANY version of this Bill! They need to know loud and clear that WE ARE ALL AGAINST IT!

Take Action by Calling These Senators Today and All Week:

Five Democrat Senators – Evan Bayh (D-IN), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Blanche
Lincoln (D-AR), Ben Nelson (D-NE), and Jim Webb (D-VA) – are
critically important to defeating Obama’s and Congressional Democrats
government-run health care experiment. We are urging every concerned
citizen to call these Senators TODAY and all week long and tell them to
vote against this bill! And it time to focus on the real issues…the
economy and creating real jobs for Americans!

Call Sen. Evan Bayh at (202) 224-5623

Call Sen. Mary Landrieu at (202) 224-5824

Call Sen. Blanche Lincoln at (202) 224-4843

Call Sen. Ben Nelson at (202) 224-6551

Call Sen. Jim Webb at (202) 224-4024

We don’t want any Christmas “surprises” under the tree!

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Filed Under: Alerts, Healthcare Reform and US Senate Closed

Calling All South Kingstown Area Tea Partiers!

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Roland Benjamin

grassrootsNote: Former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey has confirmed that he will be participating in this forum as well. Should be interesting.

At 7:00 PM on Tuesday, December 15th, the SKGOP is holding an open meeting at Casey’s Grill and Bar in Wakefield. The focus of the meeting is to bring small government groups and center right organizations to speak about their collective efforts.

Most notably, The Tea Party movement is the most encouraging development in political dynamics in many years, if not generations. The newly engaged and aware voters embodied by the Tea Party are changing the way our elected officials think and act. The concepts of freedom and individual liberty must be at the core of the SKGOP. They dominate my actions to be sure.

I encourage Tea Partiers to overwhelm this meeting. Colleen Conley has been invited to say some words. Her efforts and your passion are shaking the process. I am a Tea Partier myself trying to infuse the political process with freedom seekers. Our congressman or congresswoman 15 years from now may be sitting on a Town Council next year. There is nothing closer to “grass roots” than town level activism and the SKGOP is committed to shaking the status quo in South Kingstown and beyond.

I hope to see you there. Do not hesitate to call or write me with any comments, questions or even inflamed criticism!!

Roland Benjamin
Chairman, South Kingstown Republican Town Committee
rbenjamin [at] lfiinc [dot] com
(401)636-1650

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Filed Under: 2010 Elections, Coming Events, Republican Committees and RI Tea Party Closed Tags: , .