A Cry for Help

Well, I voted early (but not often. What, do you think we have Diebold machines or something?) Final count: 7 Democrats, 4 Republicans, 1 Independent, 6 yeas and 3 nays. If you haven’t gone to the polls yet, and care about what I think, here’s part 2 of my electoral musings:
I decided to draw the [...]

From the heart of RI Monthly’s Best Place for Republicans comes Bil’s 2006 election spectacular! This year we’ll be riding the zeitgeist and voting for Democrats, voting for independents, voting for, yup, Republicans, screwing the Indians (again) and maybe, just maybe, Keeping Chafee.
Despite being completely inundated with teevee ads, I have to say I enjoyed [...]

I never thought being a registered Republican (for all of five minutes this morning) would feel so good. I made a quick stop on my walk to work this morning to pull the lever draw the line though the arrow (doesn’t sounds as good, does it?) for my Warwick homie Linc Chafee. I have no [...]

I heard the other day that more Americans than ever are growing disgruntled with President Bush, and it turns out that this particular factoid came from a 50 state poll. What fun! Who loves their Dubya the most? Not Texas, but Utah! In fact, there’s only 6 states where our Commander in Chief has support [...]

One of the neat things about living in the Biggest Little is the relative frequency you can run into your various elected officials a few times a year (alright, this is an extremely lame thing to be saying, I’m realizing as I type this). I think it’s cool to see Jack Reed at the same [...]

So you’re like, a wicked popular guy, everyone loves you, you have lots of friends, and you’ve got a sweet website where you put up pictures. Then, you get in a fight with one of your friends, ‘cuz he said some mean stuff and wouldn’t let you order for him at that fancy restaurant. Whatcha [...]

Who will be Rhode Island’s junior Senator in the 110th US Congress? Already we know it won’t be James Langevin or Patrick Kennedy (thank god). Will My Favorite Republican hold his seat? Or will Matt Brown move his office from one marble domed capitol to another in DC? That could only happen if he bests [...]

Speaking of love, vertebrate style this time, congratulations to my favorite Democratic Senator, Jack Reed, on his holiday engagement. I had no idea he was such a bachelor. And, amazingly this will be only his first marriage. How un-Senator like (although it’s not like he’s a Republican…)

This is the best thing out of a Rhode Island City Hall since pink flamingos sprung up in Cranston:

North Providence Mayor Ralph Mollis laid off 28 town workers for one day Monday in response to a theft at a Department of Public Works garage.
Mollis laid off all 28 DPW employees for one day without pay [...]

Well, it looks like Don Carcieri’s gigantic magnified eyeballs weren’t enough to beat back the old guy in the URI sweatshirt. Early results show, by my count, that the makeup of the RI House will be 60 Democrats to 15 Republicans, and the State Senate will be 7 Republicans to 31 Democrats. That’s, like, not [...]

Remember, tomorrow, on the back of your ballot, there are 14 questions that ask for your approval or rejection. Twelve of 14 are borrowing proposals, but the first two are about the state constitution. Question 1asks whether you’d like to rewrite the constitution to add restrictions to the General Assembly, which has wielded unbalanced powers [...]

Of course you know who is running for president, and probably Congress, too. But what about your State Senate race? Do you know what your choices are? Probably not. I’ve seen about eight different candidate signs for City Council within a mile of my house, but who knows which of them will actually appear on [...]