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POLITICS AS USUAL (By Jim Baron) Chafee has gone further than Carcieri did

March 18, 2012

That liberal stooge of the unions, Gov. Lincoln Chafee, has done it again.
Paying the state labor movement back for getting him elected in 2010, Chafe has introduced a legislative package that… that uh,… that, well…that is remarkably similar to the proposals put forward by that snarling, snorting enemy of all unions, Gov. Donald Carcieri, several years in a row.

POLITICS AS USUAL (By Jim Baron) Cicilline has to make the race about Congress

March 4, 2012

If news coverage were the NFL, Channel 12 would have drawn two penalty flags last week for piling on.
Right after a Brown University poll the previous Thursday slammed both Gov. Lincoln Chafee and Congressman David Cicilline to the ground, Channel 12 pounced with everything they had — investigator Tim White, analyst Ted Nesi and pollster Joe Fleming — right on top of their already battered bodies. (The penalty flags are, of course, just metaphors, Channel 12 didn’t do anything wrong. Those reporters did their job and did it well.)

POLITICS AS USUAL (By Jim Baron) Now may be the time for Cicilline to panic

February 26, 2012

Like the guy in Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If,” Congressman David Cicilline seems to be keeping his head while all about him are losing theirs and blaming it on him.
Cicilline told me over the weekend: “I am going to do the only thing I know how to do and that is work hard every single day to represent the constituents in my district and do things that I think will improve the lives of the people that I serve.”

POLITICS AS USUAL (By Jim Baron) Obama, Catholicism and the politics of birth control

February 19, 2012

I find it remarkable that one of the liveliest debates being engaged during this presidential election year is about, of all things, contraception.
I understand that sexually related matters tend to raise the most heated passions (pun sort of intended), with abortion and gay rights amongst the most hot-button of those issues, but I kinda thought the contraception debate had been settled. And, really, it has been.

POLITICS AS USUAL (By Jim Baron) Meal tax hike coming? That's hard to swallow

February 12, 2012

The proposed 2 percent additional tax on restaurant meals and beverages has emerged as the big headline from Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s 2012 budget. His notion that it would fund additional aid to school districts didn’t seem to get as much ink.
My advice? Go someplace nice for lunch, order a good meal and a cocktail, and stop worrying about it. The tax ain’t going to happen.

 

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