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These are the unofficial results — sorted by polling station — from Tuesday’s special election in House District 62 (Pawtucket / East Providence) between Republican Tom Clupny, Democrat Mary Duffy-Messier, and Unaffiliated candidate Paul Dinsmore.
Total votes cast were remarkably low, about 487, with approximately 6% of eligible voters casting ballots. Although Tom did not win this time around, he did well considering the dynamics of the particular district. Simply put, it is not “Republican friendly” turf. On the bright side, Tom did win in the East Providence portion of the district! Tom has already indicated he will run again in the Fall of 2010. The campaign begins next week!
Fire Station – Pawtucket
Clupny – 15
Messier – 26
Dinsmore – 1
Fallon Elementary School
Clupny – 72
Messier – 161
Dinsmore – 1
Independence
Clupny – 20
Messier – 43
Dinsmore – 3
Little Elementary School
Clupny – 7
Messier – 23
Dinsmore – 2
East Providence
Clupny – 61
Messier – 43
Dinsmore – 8
Write-in – 1
TOTAL VOTES CAST*
Clupny – 175 votes (36%)
Messier – 296 votes (61%)
Dinsmore – 15 votes (3%)
Write-In – 1 votes (0%)
* The above quoted numbers do not count any absentee ballots.
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.
Tom Clupny, our Republican Candidate who is running for House of Representatives in the District 62 (Pawtucket/East Providence) Special Election, will be making a guest appearance on two television talk shows this week.
Tonight at 8:00 PM he will be on the “Tax Payers Talk Back”. The program airs on Cox channel 18 and will run at various times until December 28th.
On Saturday, December 19th he will be on “Portuguese in Rhode Island” airing on Saturday at 4:00pm and on Sunday at 6:00pm on Cox channel 15 and Verizon channel 30.
Tom needs your support today! He is running in a very Democratic area and any monetary or physical support will be greatly appreciated. For more information about Tom please visit his website at http://www.tomclupny.com or contact his campaign manager (Joe Giammarco) at Ltuta1 [at] aol [dot] com.
He will be doing more lit dropping over the next few weekends leading up to the special election taking place on December 29th. Again, we all know the holidays are here and our time is limited, but what better stocking stuffer for the party and our candidate than donating at least an hour of your time helping Tom win a seat in the General Assembly!
Donations can be sent to:
Thomas L Clupny for District 62 General Assembly
30 Bourne Avenue
Rumford, RI 02916
Source: Rhode Island Republican Party
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.
We would like to call your attention to a fundraiser to benefit the campaign of Tom Clupny, who will be the Republican candidate in the House District 62 special election (on December 29th), which will be held this coming Thursday, November 19th, from 6:00PM to 9:00PM.
After Tom spoke with us at our meeting this past Thursday night, and answered a number of questions which were posed by the membership, the Rhode Island Republican Assembly voted to endorse his candidacy for General Assembly in the upcoming special election. In addition, the Rhode Island Republican Assembly PAC voted on Sunday afternoon to support his candidacy.
As a RIRA supporter, we hope that you will make an extra effort to help Tom out and show your support. He only has a little over 6 weeks to go until the special election is held on December 29th. The district covers parts of East Providence and Pawtucket. This is a winnable race.
We encourage you to show your support by writing a check and/or by showing up at the event. Tickets are only $20 per person (although you can certainly give more). Checks can be made payable to: “Clupny, Representative District 62″. Passed catered Hors d’oeuvres will be served. You can just show up, but if you can also just send an RSVP e-mail to Joe Giammarco at ltuta1 [at] aol [dot] com — it will help them plan a little better. We hope to see you on Thursday! Thank you.
P.S. The Knights of Columbus Hall which this fundraiser will be held at on Thursday is not the same one that East Providence GOP events are normally held at. This K of C Hall is at 3200 Pawtucket Avenue, in the vicinity of Silver Spring Golf Course and St. Mary’s-Bay View Academy. Continue reading ‘Fundraiser for Special Election Candidate Tom Clupny | Thursday’
Come meet the Republican Candidate!
Thomas Clupny for House District 62
At the
Columbus Club of East Providence
3200 Pawtucket Avenue
East Providence, RI 02914
Thursday, November 19, 2009
6:00 PM to 9:00 Pm
Come and lend your support!
Reserve your place today for only $20.00 per person.
Please complete, detach, and mail the RSVP form below (by 11/16/09), along with your check to:
Clupny, Representative District 62
c/o Joseph A Giammarco,Esq.
76 Belvidere Blvd.
North Providence, RI 02911
For inquiries, please contact Joe Giammarco at ltuta1 [at] aol [dot] com.
Please make your check payable to “Clupny, Representative District 62”. Thank you for your generous support! Continue reading ‘Fundraiser for House Dist. 62 Candidate Tom Clupny | November 19′
Moe Green 116
Scott Slater 661
Wilbur Jennings 232
Includes mail ballots
Clearly not the result we hoped for. Moe ran a great campaign in a challenging district
Help Republican candidate MOE GREEN win State Rep. Special Election
We are looking for volunteers to help our GOP candidate win the special election in Providence’s House District 10 next Tuesday (November 10).
* On SATURDAY morning NOVEMBER 7, volunteers will do the 3rd and final District-wide lit drop, and deliver flyers to all 5,000 households in the District. We need volunteers to pass out these flyers to a couple of hundred houses that would be assigned to you.
Volunteers will gather at 10:00 A.M. at OASIS GRILL, located at 220 BROAD ST. in Providence. This is directly across the street from Classical High School’s athletic field. It is a block away from Travelers Aid – formerly the YMCA. Anyone coming by freeway would probably take the Broadway exit to Rt. 95 (or the Atwells Ave. exit), and look for the Travelers Aid tower as a landmark.
We expect to have enough volunteers, to have the entire District done by noon. Of course, we will have coffee & snacks in the Grill for the volunteers.
Anyone who needs to reach Dave Talan (Moe’s Campaign Manager) on Saturday should call his phone, 401-862-7519 (cell) 401-941-3662 (home) E-mail is davetalan [at] aol [dot] com
We are still putting together plans for election day on Tuesday. We know we will need people to be in front of the 4 key polling places, holding up Moe’s signs. And there will be last-minute reminder phone calls to favorable voters.
We are hoping to have a motorcade throughout the District on Sunday afternoon. We are looking for someone with a sound system; someone with a truck to put Moe’s signs on; and someone with a convertible that Moe can ride in.
On Saturday, once we get everybody out on the lit drop (probably around noon), Moe needs to ring doorbells in some key areas we have not covered yet. We need some “bird-dogs” to ring doorbells ahead of us, to have people ready for Moe, and to leave pre-signed flyers at houses where nobody is home.
Source: Moe Green for State Representative
If you were watching television on Tuesday night as the election returns came in showing Republicans capturing the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, you probably missed seeing the “biggest losers” of the evening. You may have caught the concession speech of Creigh Deeds, who ran 12% behind Barack Obama’s winning percentage of the vote in Virginia, and that of Jon Corzine who, after spending over $100 million of his own money on three campaigns, ran 13% behind Obama’s winning percentage in New Jersey and got evicted from Drumthwacket, the governor’s mansion in Princeton.
But you missed seeing the guy who may have been the biggest loser of all — a man who according to recently released White House logs has been a guest in the White House 22 times since Barack Obama became president, more than any other single individual.
That man is Andy Stern, who has boasted that the Service Employees International Union, which he heads, ponied up something like $60 million for Barack Obama and other Democrats in the 2008 campaign cycle. Altogether, Mr. Stern and other labor union leaders reportedly gave Democrats some $400 million last year…
Read More: The Wall Street Journal
A note from Sarah Palin on tonight’s victories:
Congratulations to the new Governors-Elect of Virginia and New Jersey! I’d also like to offer a special word of support to the new Lieutenant Governor-Elect of New Jersey, Kim Guadagno, the first woman to hold that office.
Of course, the real victors in this election are the ordinary men and women who voted for positive change and a return to fiscal sanity. Your voices have been heard.
The race for New York’s 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010. The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs. In 2010, these issues will be even more crucial to the electorate. I commend Doug Hoffman and all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds.
To the tireless grassroots patriots who worked so hard in that race and to future citizen-candidates like Doug, please remember Reagan’s words of encouragement after his defeat in 1976:
“The cause goes on. Don’t get cynical because look at yourselves and what you were willing to do, and recognize that there are millions and millions of Americans out there that want what you want, that want it to be that way, that want it to be a shining city on a hill.”
The cause goes on.
- Sarah Palin
Source: Sarah Palin on Facebook
The following is from Conservative Party congressional candidate Doug Hoffman (NY-23). It’s reminiscent of Reagan, circa 1976:
America has changed, and you have helped. Although we did not succeed in winning this election, we have succeeded in making sure political parties and special interests no longer take the people for granted. I believe we have sent a powerful message and laid the groundwork for future conservative campaigns.
I congratulate Bill Owens on a hard won victory. In our tradition of free elections, our country continues. And although Bill Owens has won, I believe America is turning the page to a new dawn.
The ideas of freedom, sound fiscal management and citizen government have sprung back into our consciousness. Our founding fathers would be proud of New York 23. It was here that our principles, those that have been the foundation of our nation, came back to life with a vengeance. And it was here that the people rose up against the political bosses who tried to impose their will. It was here that people reached out to control their own destinies again.
Despite the election results, I am optimistic for our future, because now I know that I am not alone in wanting to repair our great nation. Throughout this campaign I have been inspired by the outpouring of support and the intensity of that support.
I’ve met many different people in this campaign, from many walks of life and many professions; each with a different personal story to share. Yet we are all united in the belief that by participating in democracy, we could inspire change.
I urge that no one feel defeated, for this was only one of many elections. We came close, we put our agenda in front of the nation and the nation took notice. The worse thing we could do now, is not continue forward. Next year there are other elections and other candidates who have drawn inspiration from our efforts.
I would like to thank all of you who placed your faith in me, who worked tirelessly and shared your enthusiasm with those around you. You are all patriots, you have all stood up for your country and I am honored to stand among you.
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Republican Resurgency: NJ + VA Taken, CR’s take action
With election momentum building for the Republican Party and the conservative movement more inflamed than ever with the power of the Tea Party’s and a massive growth in College Republican involvement 2010 will mark a massive comeback predicated. Republicans nationally and here in Rhode Island, retaining our core beliefs in small government, civil rights and a moral society, will attract voters who can no longer suffer the fiscal insanity or moral depravity advocated by the Democrats in Washington and in Providence. The CRFRI and I extend special recognition to the College Republicans of New Jersey, Virginia and those from all states who participated in the College Republican National Committee’s deployment efforts. These efforts, particularly in New Jersey, certainly contributed substantially to Republican victory and inspire College Republicans everywhere to prepare for a massive political effort in 2010. Rhode Island will be no exception as we orchestrate an unprecedented youth volunteer effort to achieve victories throughout the northeast. I congratulate the Republican candidates, all who were involved in their campaigns and all who share our values on these historic victories.
Regards,
Jon Conradi
Chairman, College Republican Federation of Rhode Island
News Release: College Republican Federation of Rhode Island