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Although each of my candidates had a remarkably strong showing in the most staunchly Democratic state in the nation, each lost.
Highlights:
The man elected Governor is former US Senator Lincoln Chafee, a former RINO turned Independent who supports the agenda of the sitting President, and ran on a promise to institute taxes on food, clothing, elderly assistance, veterans benefits, medicine, ect.; while cutting no other taxes. He did so with the unwavering support of state and municipal unions, with the promise that he would keep handing out salary increases, stay away from employee benefit packages, and guarantee complete funding of our bankrupt pension system.
Our new Representative to the House is Pelosiite Providence Mayor David Cicilinne whom is replacing Patrick Kennedy and is currently, believe it or not, under federal investigation for corruption charges and is simultaneously being sued by the Firefighters Union for unfunding and stripping their pension account without any sort of record of accountability. A stupendous leader, I'm sure.
Rhode Island is one of what I understand is only a handful of states whose Governor and Lieutenant Governor run on separate tickets. The list of Constitutional duties and authorities the LG holds are as follows: ... waiting for the Governor to die. He has no power to do anything. So in my state's infinite wisdom we provide him with a one million dollar annual budget to do... nothing, well, that's not entirely true. He does work purely as an ideological lobbyist, being payed directly by the tax payers, so I guess that's something, even if it is sickening. There was a candidate on the ballot who was a very well known alternative to this idiocy, one Robert Healey. He ran on a platform of refusing a salary or staff, and spending the duration of his service pursuing nothing other than the calling of a Constitutional Convention to debate the merits of eliminating the office of LG itself, of if retaining it, to establish actual Constitutional duties to justify the offices position. He lost 59% to 33% to the Democratic incumbent Elizabeth Roberts who last year lobbied for the creation of a fund which she would use to "create jobs" in Rhode Island, more than 80% of which was spent out of state.
_________________ Quote: 19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Ezekiel 23:19-20
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