Seeding the Grass Roots
According to Rasmussen, when given a choice between a government that provides fewer services and sets lower taxes and one that demands higher taxes but offers more services, Americans choose smaller government by a 59% to 28% margin. So, if these views are in the majority, why is it that our elected representatives do the…
As I admitted this morning, I haven’t been entirely sure where TransformRI fits into a complementary strategy for the advancement of reform in Rhode Island. Looking at the group’s Web site, my impression is that, beyond reinforcing grassroots efforts, the group’s role should be to liaise between the Republican Party and the various groups that…
If the statewide election results accomplished anything, this year, it was to up the ante for pessimism in Rhode Island. Whereas we used to ask each other how bad things would have to get, here, before voters would begin to wake up, it is beginning to seem more realistic to ask whether the state can…
Paul at Powerline suggests some actions that rightward Americans can take in order to rebound from the election. This one is particularly significant here in Rhode Island: Support fledgling conservative institutions. The left has “marched through our institutions” – including the MSM, Hollywood, the public schools, academia, and even large swaths of corporate America. Conservatives…
I just passed a woman standing at the corner of Union and West Main in Portsmouth holding a home-made sign reading: Try the REPUBLICANS for Change Now, I don’t know if she intended just to buck the national mantra or if she’s referring to state and municipal elections, to which her message is more clearly…
When it so happens that the powers that be seem intent on acting in opposition to crystal clear reality, citizens are compelled to act. In Rhode Island, there’s hope — or, in any case, we’ve hope — that plain information will serve to stop the tides, because it is in the universal self-interest to do…
By the way, I would be shirking my agitator’s duty if I didn’t highlight some folks who managed to get out to Fall River and counterprotest the picket that didn’t happen: But even though a judge had said such picketing would be legal, the union didn’t show up. Instead, two Portsmouth residents stood outside the…
The Rhode Island Republican Assembly forwards this notice about a demonstration being held in Smithfield tonight…There will be a resignation rally on Tuesday 8/7/2007 at 7:00pm @ Smithfield Town Hall (64 Farnum Pike, Route 104). The purpose is to demand that disgraced former Capitol Police Chief Stephen Tocco resign from the Town Council.Thomas J. Morgan…
In an op-ed in today’s Projo, William Felkner introduces the Ocean State Policy Research Institute (OSPRI) and explains why such an organization is desperately needed here in Rhode Island… Ironically, Rhode Island is stuck in a “conservative” cycle protecting the “liberal” status quo of excessive workplace rules, generous social programs, retentive regulation, entrenched unionism in…
