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Thanks to Chris for passing along this (not particularly surprising) story from the Hill : It does not pay to be a Democrat in Utah or a Republican in Rhode Island, according to a new series of polls released by the Gallup Organization. That is because...
Good timing is perhaps the most valuable of all political commodities, so with a Democrat coming into the White House, it makes perfect sense that Bill Lynch, chairman of the RI Dems, has made a pitch to be our next US attorney. Brother Patrick, who is...
Mark Weiner, the prodigious Democratic fundraiser and Clinton confidante, and his wife have combined to donate $100,000 , the maximum allowable, for Obama's inauguration. Steven Stycos reports in this week's Phoenix. Obama set the strictest limits...
From the Young Dems : As the primary season comes to an end and we get closer to the Democratic National Convention in August - the RI Young Democrats are preparing for a busy summer and fall. We hope you'll join us at our next meeting: TONIGHT, Tuesday...
Via Halperin : Courtesy CNN OBAMA PUNCHES BACK– HARD. In South Dakota, the Senator fires back against Bush and McCain following Bush’s “appeasement” remark. “ That’s exactly the kind of appalling attack that’s divided our country, and that alienates us...
In April 2007, I reported on how Erica Sagrans, a Brown alum and former Phoenix contributor, isn't the only staffer in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office with a Rhode Island connection. The speaker's press secretary is Brendan Daly , the brother of Channel...
Kudos + congrats to my friend Matt, an occasional Phoenix contributor, who graduates this week from Roger Williams Law School. The RI Populist was today among the winners of the Metcalf Diversity in Media Award (named for former ProJo publisher Michael...
Is it safe ? It's safe .
Hillary's role as the first truly credible female presidential candidate has offered a lot of grist for the gender mill, from her attempts, via macho swagger, to emasculate Obama , to calls that our concepts of power be separated from such reductionist...
From today's NYT : Sizable victories — the Clinton camp believes it could win West Virginia by 25 points or more — might put pressure on Mr. Obama to agree to her demands to seat the disputed delegates from Michigan and Florida , some of her advisers...
B ill Moyers was being interviewed on NPR today as I prowled for lunch in the N4N-mobile. He made the point that the uber-controversial Jeremiah Wright's most controversial statements are a relative blip in the scheme of the pastor's ministerial career...
From the Obama campaign: Providence , RI – The Obama campaign announced today that Attorney General Patrick Lynch and U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy will launch the Rhode Island Vote for Change voter registration drive on Saturday, May 10th in Providence ...
A prominent RI liberal tipped me off to this piece by the conservative Washington Post columnist, which pokes at Hillary Clinton not just for not wanting to face the music, but for being a Yankee fan. Hillary Clinton , 60, Illinois native and Arkansas...
Chip Unruh, press secretary for US Senator Jack Reed , got in touch after I yesterday highlighted Charlie Bakst's column on the senator. In buttressing the case that Reed will remain in the Senate in the event of a Democratic White House adminstration...
Matt has the details: Attention political junkies! There will be a screening of THE WAR ROOM , the 1992 Clinton campaign documentary on Wednesday, May 7th at 700pm at Local 121's speakeasy (downstairs). Marti Rosenberg Yours truly will be moderating the...
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