Congratulations to J. Patrick O'Neill for taking out former speaker and all-around cad John Harwood. Oh, how sweet it is. The reformation of RI politics continues.
Also, Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey easily fended off Garry Reilly (and the big scary evil baby-eating unions) by a three-to-one margin. Have Cranston voters created a monster? Keep your eyes on 2006... At least some of Ed Achorn's
friends won't have to move now.
Also, in Warwick, my friend Lucy Mota-Costa grabbed the last spot in the school board race, and Stephen Lamarre gave seven-time mayoral candidate Timothy Rassano a proper spanking (my prediction of 500 votes city-wide for this race was off by, oh, an order of magnitude. Of course, that means my one vote accounted for 2% of the total turnout!)
Wasn't this fun?!
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It was great to see a PAWTUCKET boy toss out the outsider who claimed that Mr. O’Neill was carpetbqagging. One must remember that Mr’O'Neill’s grandfather was City Solicitor for the City of Pawtucket and John O’Neill Jr. the famous deceased Pawtucket lawyer ran for politics in Pawtucket, as well as his aunt Marie Custer. Well, enough said! Who in John Harwood’s family has ever done anything for Pawtucket? Congratulations Patrick for a job well done. As for Mr. Murphy promoting you to run against Harwood, I commemorate him for such a wise decision.
Patrick’s father, James O’Neill is also another Pawtucket boy with home grown roots. Enough said about Patrick’s lineage and now the show goes on. go get them Patrick. Congratulations. Thank God Pawtucket voters finally got smart.
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