Steve Laffey, former Mayor of Cranston, RI, and author of the book, Primary Mistake will be the keynote speaker at Operation Clean Government’s Forum “$earching for $olution$”. Laffey and his film crew returned to Rhode Island this week to continue shooting the documentary, “Fixing America”, after traveling the backroads of America and Washington, DC interviewing regular Americans, prominent business people, organizational heads, and policy experts about solutions to address the country’s economic crisis.
Information on OCG’s Forum is as follows:
A free public forum on
The Rhode Island Fiscal Crisis
Sponsored by Operation Clean Government
May 14, 2011, 9:00 to 11:00 AM
Varnum Memorial Armory
6 Main St., East Greenwich, RI, 02818
Keynote Speaker: Steve Laffey
Edward Mazze, Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Former Dean of the College of Business Administration at URI
Gary Sasse, former Executive Director of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC)
Stephen Hourahan, Senior Advisor to the Governor
Dan Yorke, WPRO radio talk show host has agreed to moderate the discussion.
Laffey’s production crew for Fixing America will be filming on site. OCG’s program, called $earching for $olution$, will run from 9 to 11 AM. Armory doors will open at 8:30, and there is no charge to attend.
OCG President Margaret Kane describes the forum as an opportunity for key stakeholders to discuss solutions with the taxpayers of Rhode Island. OCG is concerned that we can no longer put off the tough questions without jeopardizing Rhode Island’s future.
Questions OCG hopes will be addressed include: How do we balance the budget? Do we raise taxes, cut spending, or both? Is there any effective way to correct the serious problem of unfunded liabilities in our public employee pension plans? What must we do to create new jobs?
RSVP at info [at] ocgri [dot] org
About Fixing America
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Press Release: Fixing America
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Laffey: Fixing America, The Movie
“Our goal is to travel the country with a film production crew and speak with regular Americans as well as politicians, policy experts, and prominent business people on a variety of topics such as trade, China, taxes, energy policy, defense, and balancing the budget, and to ultimately share real solutions for fixing America now, while there is still time,” said Mr. Laffey, a former RI elected official, president of a major investment banking firm, and author of Primary Mistake.
Laffey stated, “The political elites from both parties have destroyed our country financially. Since 1971 and the closing of the ‘Gold Window’ by President Nixon, America has not settled its accounts. By using its status as both the world’s reserve currency and the world’s military superpower, America has put off the day of reckoning. The financial shenanigans in the USA have grown, along with the power of the financial and political elite, to a point that it threatens our freedom, our financial future, and just maybe the freedom of the free world. Our goal is to show solutions to these issues and how they should be addressed immediately.”
Please direct media inquires to: Field Producer Colleen Conley at colleen [at] the989project [dot] com
Source: Press Release
“Fixing America”: The Movie
Steve Laffey, Fort Collins, CO