Daily Archive for January 18th, 2010

Operation Clean Government Candidate School | March 6

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Rhode Island Red

Operation Clean Government’s Comprehensive, Non-Partisan Candidate School

If you are thinking about running for office or working on a campaign, you don’t want to miss this event.

Operation Clean Government is sponsoring its 5th biennial Candidate School, a day-long event designed to give candidates, campaign workers and campaign volunteers the tools they need to launch, manage and participate in a winning campaign for federal, state and local office.

Saturday, March 6, 2010
7:15AM – 5:15PM

Quonset ‘O’ Club
North Kingstown

Registration Fee: $95.00 per person
(includes breakfast, lunch, snacks and printed materials)

To see program and faculty and to register online:
Go to http://www.ocgri.org/candidate.html

or send check made out to OCG Candidate School
along with your name, address, telephone # and email address to:

OCG Candidate School
PO Box 8683
Warwick, RI 02888

Source: Operation Clean Government

Filed Under: 2010 Elections, Alerts, Coming Events and RI General Assembly Closed

Rep. Patrick Kennedy Repeatedly Refers to ‘Marcia Coakley’ at Rally

Posted on January 18, 2010 by The Ocean State Republican

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama’s rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley’s now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person — George W. Bush…

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), speaking with a gaggle of reporters after the event, said that while state Sen. Scott Brown (R) offers voters a quick fix, in reality, the problems created by “George Bush and his cronies” are not so easily solved.

“If you think there’s magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown,” Kennedy said. “If you don’t, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole … then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president’s in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that.”

(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as “Marcia,” not “Martha.”)

More Kennedy: “One thing the Democrats have done wrong? We haven’t kept the focus on this disaster on the Republicans who brought it upon us. We’ve tried too hard to do that right thing, and that’s to fix it, as opposed to spend more of our time and energy pointing the finger at who got us [here] in the first place.”…

Read More: National Journal

Filed Under: 2010 Elections, Congressboy Kennedy and Democrats Closed

Video From The People’s Rally in Worcester

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Will Ricci

US Senate candidate Scott Brown held a “People’s Rally” at Mechanics Hall in Worcester on Saturday. Note in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, Rhode Island’s own Doreen Costa on the stage! Way to go, Doreen!

Filed Under: 2010 Elections, Republican Candidates and US Senate Closed

Scott Brown’s Remarks from the Huge Rally in Worcester

Posted on January 18, 2010 by The Ocean State Republican

Thank you very much. What a privilege it is to share the stage with John Ratzenberger, Lenny Clarke, Doug Flutie, Curt Schilling, Fred Smerlas, Steve DeOssie, and many, many others – and my favorite singer, Ayla Brown.

View from behind the podium at the Scott Brown rally in Worcester. Photo by Doreen Costa.

As you know, Curt Schilling made the news just a couple of days ago when my opponent didn’t recognize his name. Of all the many false accusations she’s made in this campaign, one of the strangest was to call Curt Schilling a Yankee fan. Let me properly identify the guy she’s been smearing on the radio: His name is Curt Schilling, formerly of the World Champion Red Sox – you know, a baseball team that plays at Fenway Park.

Doug Flutie, what can I say, great guy, great career, and I am proud you are here. John Ratzenberger, a wonderful actor, you brought a lot of laughs to us during your many years with Cheers. Fred and Steve, you are legends and good friends. Ayla, thank you for again sharing your beautiful voice. Millions have seen her on national TV, and going through this campaign I’ve got an idea of what Ayla went through on “American Idol.” She had to deal with Simon Cowell, and I had to deal with David Gergen.

Our campaign is going strong, and the finish line is in sight. The day of decision is almost here. The whole nation is watching, but the choice on Election Day belongs to you and no one else. Friends and fellow citizens, I’m Scott Brown, I’m from Wrentham, I drive a truck and I’m asking for your vote. Continue reading ‘Scott Brown’s Remarks from the Huge Rally in Worcester’

Filed Under: 2010 Elections and Republican Candidates Closed