Good news for the CCA…We’re so blue…and sexy…the campaign against straw holes…Doreen Costa is a hypocrite…men get stupid around women
Imagine how hard Planning Commissar Ruth Platner would have to work to block any new housing that can accommodate families with children. Town Council Boss Tom Gentz and Council VP Deputy Dan Slattery would have to work harder to cut and slash the Chariho School budget. But relax, guys, we dodged the family-friendly honors again.
Blue on Blue. According to the Gallup Poll, Rhode Island is one of the most `liberal’ states in the country. We rank third, behind the
The most conservative states are mostly in the old Confederacy and mountain West, with Mississippi ranked #1, followed by Idaho , Alabama , Wyoming and Utah .
And here’s why we rank so well. According to the wellness website RealAge.com, Providence ranks among the Top Ten Best Places for Sex for both men and women.
Not sure why New Orleans didn’t make the list. After all, where else can you get drive-thru hard liquor drinks (daiquiris, margaritas, Hurricanes) with a straw hole in the go-cup. But one spoilsport legislator wants to ban go-cups with pre-perforated lids. Senator Dan Claitor of Baton Rouge wants to make it harder for drivers to put a straw into their drinks while they’re driving. He’s tried to get this legislation passed before, without success.
Doreen Costa is a hypocrite. Tea Party state rep Doreen Costa (R-No Kingstown) made a big deal to GoLocalProv.com about how much she hates legislative grants. She just doesn’t think it’s right that state legislators can draw from a budgeted pool of state funds to support local charities. Costa told GoLocal that instead of getting a legislative grant for a worthy local organization, legislators should do what she does and give to charities from their campaign funds. “I see it as a way to buy votes from their communities,” Costa said. Costa claimed she has done so “many times.” Errr, not exactly. Costa is nearing the end of her first term. She has raised a boatload of money from the Tea Party and other right-wing sources. Yet she gave NOTHING – zero, nada – to charity until last July when she gave $225 to the
Not exactly big bucks and certainly not a tithe, given how much she has hauled in. However, Costa did donate a lot more than that to local Republican town committees around the state, the RI Statewide Coalition and other right-wing political groups and candidates.
By contrast, our local state Representative Donna Walsh works hard to get legislative grants for groups in her district. She just handed a $2,000 check to Deb Nigrelli at RI-CAN. In the current fiscal year, Donna has also gotten $1,000 for the Charlestown Animal Shelter, $1,000 for the
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