Daily Archive for December 29th, 2009
Steve Laffey currently has the support of 30 Rhode Island city and town GOP chairs (and counting … there are only 39 cities and towns). If he decides to throw his hat into the ring as the Republican candidate for RI Governor, he will have a broad network of support on the ground to enact the real change we need in 2010.
CRANSTON –– With former Republican U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee poised to officially announce his independent candidacy for governor next week, supporters of his onetime political nemesis –– Stephen P. Laffey ––– are stepping up their efforts to convince the former Cranston mayor to enter the race as well…
…In the meantime, the draft-Laffey movement appears to be picking up steam among the heads of the state Republican party’s city and town committees.
Lincoln’s Republican town chairman, Michael Napolitano, reported that the “chairpersons of 30 Republican town and city committees unanimously endorsed [Laffey] as the 2010 Republican candidate for governor of Rhode Island” at an “ad hoc meeting” Saturday.
In a statement issued over the weekend, Napolitano, a communications professor at Dean College in Franklin, Mass., said: “The 2010 governor’s race is the most critical for the state of Rhode Island in a generation. Rhode Island stands on the precipice of a financial catastrophe not seen in America since the 1975 bond default by the City of New York. … I hope that the unanimous support of the local Republican town and city committees will convince him to run for Governor.”
It remains to be seen whether Laffey will bite…
…Asked Sunday night where he stands in light of the effort by Laffey-backers within the GOP to draw him in, the former mayor sent an e-mail that said: “I am honored. It is great to see Rhode Islanders rising to fix this financial crisis.”
But Laffey, who lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat to Chafee in a 2006 Republican primary fight, has not yet said whether he will reenter the political fray as a candidate for governor, and if he does so, whether he will do so as a Republican.
Read More (and Comment): The Providence Journal
On Tuesday, December 29th, we will get our next chance to show that Rhode Island 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. Betsy 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. If you would like to help out on election day, contact Tom’s campaign manager (and son-in-law) Joe Giammarco at 781-910-7415 (E-Mail: Ltuta1 [at] aol [dot] com ).
There will be an election night gathering in the basement hall of the Community Center of Grupo Amigos Da Terceira (Portuguese Club) located at 55 Memorial Drive in Pawtucket, near McCoy Stadium off of Columbus Avenue. Doors open at 5:00 PM. Election results should be available shortly after 9:00 PM. Light refreshments (sandwiches and snack food) and a cash bar will be available.
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.
On 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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American Thinker: The Liberal Plot against American Education
With troublemakers enjoying near-diplomatic immunity from punishment, schools have no choice but to hire armies of workers to mitigate their impact…and as in any well-formulated, government-financed, make-work scheme, everyone receives a turn at the trough. There will be more social workers, mental health counselors, anti-violence program supervisors and coordinators, role models, and mentors for at-risk students, right on down to more janitors skilled in graffiti removal, school safety officers, technicians to repair vandalized surveillance equipment, classroom assistants to keep an eye on the mischief-makers, and whatever else it takes to staff these prison-like schools…
These extra bodies necessary for maintain dangerous schools are also a windfall for the Democratic Party and its expand-the-state policies. Bloated school payrolls guarantee more dues-paying members to education unions like the NEA and AFT, both central to Democratic fundraising and voting drives. (These unions also supply many delegates to the party’s presidential nominating convention.) They are also a ready-made voter base for erstwhile “education” mayors and governors “committed to helping the children” who all the while push government farther into fiscal insolvency…
Read More: The American Thinker