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  • June 09, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    Providence Mayor Angel Taveras' top-to-bottom review of city finances, which revealed a two-year, $180 million structural deficit, has badly damaged the reputation of his predecessor, David Cicilline, who stands accused of covering up the capital's fiscal problems while running a successful campaign for Congress last fall.

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  • June 08, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    At the height of the David-Cicilline-left-Providence-bankrupt story, it was hard to imagine him ever escaping its harsh glare. But veteran political observers noted that the year-and-a-half until the next election is the proverbial "eternity in politics" and that attention would inevitably shift elsewhere - especially as the Taveras Administration began the painful process of cutting.

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  • May 24, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    Brett Broesder, former campaign manager for Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, has an interesting piece over at golocalprov suggesting that Congressman David Cicilline's biggest challenge will come in the Democatic primary, not the general election:

    ...when it comes to a Republican ousting the incumbent – don’t believe the hype.

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  • May 18, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    Congressman David Cicilline, who has faced a firestorm over his handling of the city budget as mayor of Providence, got a chance to change the subject today - holding a press event to formally introduce his "Make it in America" block grant proposal and to tout a broader, six-point plan to boost the state's manufacturing sector.

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  • May 11, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    Colonel Brendan Doherty, set to formally announce his Congressional bid Thursday, has released a statement that provides a glimpse of what we'll see tomorrow and in the coming months. The integrity message, as you might expect, appears paramount in how the candidate will sell his bid to unseat Congressman David Cicilline.

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  • April 28, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    I've got a cover story in today's Phoenix on freshman Congressman David Cicilline and his re-election prospects come 2012. He is, without a doubt, looking vulnerable. But not as vulnerable, I argue, as he might appear.

    One of the most important factors is going to be the tone and sheer magnitude of the national debate over spending and entitlement programs next year.

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  • April 25, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    Amid all the talk of Congressman David Cicilline's vulnerability, he seems safe - at the moment - on at least one flank: the left.

    I just spoke with former State Representative David Segal, who ran to Cicilline's left last year, and he all but ruled out of a Democratic primary challenge to the incumbent in 2012. Political insiders say they've heard no serious rumblings from other progressives.

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  • April 20, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    I spoke with Loughlin briefly this morning, before he went on the air as a fill-in host at talk radio station WPRO. He confirms that he is, indeed, deploying to Iraq sometime in the next 30 days (he's not allowed to say exactly when). But he says he is still very much interested in a potential run for Congress.

    Loughlin downplayed the significance of a prolonged absence, saying supporters can raise money for him in his absence.

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  • April 20, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    A letter from Congressman Cicilline to supporters, taking on the messenger:

    I’m sure by now you’ve heard about the report issued today by former senior Carcieri Administration official Gary Sasse at the request of the Providence City Council, and I’d like to take a moment to set the record straight. The idea that the individual who led the charge for Governor Carcieri in making devastating cuts to cities and towns across Rhode Island would now criticize how we managed through these difficult cuts is just too much.

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  • April 15, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    Today is the deadline for members of Congress to report their first-quarter fundraising totals. David Cicilline, as reported in this space last week, has raised almost $125,000.

    That puts him on the lower end for the freshman class, according to some preliminary numbers reported by the New York Times here. But Cicilline, of course, is in the minority party, which makes raising money a lot harder.

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  • April 06, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    A spokesman for David Cicilline says the freshman Congressman raised approximately $125,000 in the first quarter, and should finish with about $75,000 on hand.

    The figure will, inevitably, be compared to the eye-popping $1 million-plus Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says he raised in the same period. And you can bet the gap will weigh heavily on the minds of figures like Brendan Doherty, who may be weighing a challenge against one of the two.

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  • March 29, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    David Cicilline's tough political stretch gets the full treatment in Politico today.

    So much for the honeymoon period.

    Less than three months into his first term, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) has nose-dived in the polls and is under fire back home in Providence, the embattled city where he served as mayor before winning election to Congress.

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  • March 24, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    A new, wide-ranging Brown University poll is out. Among the highlights: mixed views on Governor Chafee's sales tax proposal (lowering the rate from 7 to 6 percent, adding a 1 percent tax on some items, expanding the number of items to be taxed), poor approval ratings for Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative David Cicilline, and solid support for organized labor (Wisconsin, ye seem so far away).

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  • March 04, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    Fascinating to watch the tone of the Providence Journal's coverage of the Providence fiscal crisis the last couple of days - and in particular its gloves-off treatment of former Providence Mayor-turned-Congressman David Cicilline, who is taking a beating over his past handling of city finances.

    There were a couple of tough-minded pieces in yesterday's paper - one that had several officials essentially alleging a cover-up.

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  • March 03, 2011
    By David Scharfenberg

    Running for higher office from the mayor's chair is always a difficult proposition. City Hall comes with baggage.

    That made former Mayor David Cicilline's triumph in the Congressional election of this past fall all the more impressive. And as he settled into his Capitol Hill offices, the ugliness of urban politics was supposed to fade rather quickly.

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