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The Coalition Talk Radio Responds To Scott MacKay Commentary                               Yes, Scott ... Ethics Rules Matter ....

2/29/2016

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Did I miss something?

After reading Scott MacKay’s recent commentary, “Don't Expect RI Ethics Rules Will Change Anything on Smith Hill,” I can’t tell if MacKay has given up on improving the state, or if he really believes that our legislators, left to monitor themselves, will dissuade corruption as well as independent oversight.
The discussion centers on an effort to restore legislative oversight authority of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission. 

If you don’t know the history, in a nutshell, the people of Rhode Island created the Ethics Commissions during the 1986 Constitutional Convention, and it worked quite well providing advice to avoid conflicts of interest, and investigating and prosecuting ethics violations when they occurred.

But when the Commission had a series of successful investigations, resulting in two legislators paying 6-figure fines and spending time in jail, a related case against then-Senate President Irons resulted in a court case which ultimately stripped the commission of its powers due to what some would call a technicality.
So for the last seven years, good government groups and the legislature have been working to resolve those issues. 

But Mr. MacKay suggests that an independent oversight of the general assembly is a worthless pursuit saying, “history shows that many of these measures don’t mean much,” even citing the Separation of Powers Constitutional Amendment as his “prime example.”

His argument is almost laughable, if it weren’t so dangerous.

Rhode Island has a history of corruption, and expecting the fox to watch the hen house is a recipe for disaster.  Don’t we have one Fox in jail already?

​As Chairman of the Rhode Island Libertarian Party, we strongly support restoring ethics commission oversight. We are part of the CLEAN RI coalition, the Coalition for Legislative Ethics and Accountability Now in Rhode Island (www.CleanRI.org).  We sit at the table with groups like the RI Progressive Democrats, WatchDog RI, & Rhode Island Taxpayers. Occupy Providence & Ocean State Tea Party In Action. Community Leaders Allan Hassenfeld, Phil West, & Karl Wadensten. Indy Media Outfits RIFuture.org, and of course The Coalition Talk Radio.

At a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, both legislators and advocates spoke of an agreement to reinstate those oversight powers, they just need to resolve the procedural questions. 

Scott MacKay seems to be the only one who thinks it’s a waste of time.  House Speaker Mattiello is the only other person I’ve heard express this negative opinion.  I’ll let you decide what that means. 

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Grow Smart RI Responds To Coalition Radio Questions\Confusion

11/18/2015

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On this past week's Coalition Radio Show, Show Host Pat Ford expressed concern regarding Grow Smart RI's overt support of RIPTA fare hikes, which, in the opinion of many, (The Show's Host Included) unfairly target the poor & physically challenged by disproportionately raising fares on the same. (RIPTA, in referring to rate discounts, as "Unfunded Mandates" has lost sight of a mission created in its original charter.) The Show Host expressed continued surprise that an organization dedicated to defeating suburban sprawl would ever countenance, never mind promote said enabling legislation. In fact, GrowSmartRI, by appearing at RIPTA Board Meetings to testify in favor of said fare hikes, seemed to go out of its way, to encourage this support.

RIPTA Board Meeting Minutes June 2015 GrowSmart RI In Attendance  .

Coalition Radio Show - RIPTA Riders Alliance - Show Podcast

Mr. John Flaherty, Deputy Director - Grow Smart RI, responded to our concerns in the following letter ...


Pat,

​Good talking with you briefly just now.  
Here's some background on Grow Smart's position regard to the proposed changes to RIPTA fares for senior and disabled passengers.

Grow Smart evaluated H-6108 which proposed amending the state-mandated RIPTA fare structure providing for free travel to seniors and disabled passengers, allowing RIPTA management to charge ½ fare during peak travel periods.  This was being pursued in part to help address an estimated operating deficit of approximately $5M and to align RIPTA’s fare structure with the majority of other transit agencies across the country.  

Grow Smart reluctantly supported the measure – reluctantly because we realize the hardship it would create for those least able to afford it, but we concluded that the potential for loss of service may pose a greater hardship for those who rely on RIPTA to get to/from work, doctors office, grocery stores, etc.  

The proposal was eventually folded into the State Budget as Article 22 Sub A and expanded to allow RIPTA management to completely eliminate free fares during peak and off-peak travel periods.  This measure passed as part of the State Budget.  

Grow Smart testified at the Board of Directors meeting of RIPTA on June 22, urging the board to not eliminate free fares for elderly or disabled passengers who meet the income means test and who travel during off-peak periods.  The decision now rests with the RIPTA Board of Directors but must first be subject to a public hearing process.  

​Best regards,

John
​John Flaherty
Deputy Director
Grow Smart Rhode Island
235 Promenade Street, Suite 550
Providence, RI  02908
401.273.5711, Ext. 5
401.309.8707 (mobile)​
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Senator Lou Raptakis: Before He Was Against The Tolls ... He Voted For The Tolls ....

11/5/2015

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So folks ... it's silly season again ... No, not election time ... but those magic moments when politicians raise their heads up from whatever "Happy Place" they've been hidden ...sensing that their "publicity whore" moment is upon them, to voice Outrage! Outrage! I say! to the legislative swill that is bubbling up from the very bowels of "Halitosis Hall" they can usually be found in ....

Last year? The sum of their moral courage was aimed at a local activists, who dared breach the walls of I-95 to vent their collective outrage at the state sanctioned terrorism aimed squarely at their communities ... ie Stop & Frisk ... The heavens were called down upon these folks, and the usual pablum that passes for legislation in Lil Rhody was written than none other than today's special guest: Senator Lou Raptakis (BTW, the collective outrage dissipated somewhat when this wannabee-Reporter pointed out that the last time someone pulled that stunt, they were white, middle class RISDICked citizens who were egged on by the very same media outlets now prone to a collective nervous breakdown ..)

So, Senator Lou .. the "Man of the People" ... who supported none other than Rhode Island's own Dick Cheney, Richard Licht, (After a lifetime of legal scholarship ... not.)  for a well earned Judgeship, deemed it time to get his fair share of camera and radio time by calling for "Felony" level punishment for what most would deem ordinary civil disobience .... And after the Sturm & Drang died down .... and the magic red light of the camera was turned off ... Senator Lou went back to what he does best ... Pizza and Pandering ...

Now, it would appear, that the Good Senator has sensed (Do we call this a political spidey sense?) an opportunity, again, to appear like a man of da people ... Stop The Tolls! Government Transparency! The People Must Be Heard!

Witness his Op Ed piece in today's GoLocalProv ... As always, it's worth a complete read .. but this passage struck me as, well, rather odd ...

"This time, we’re not being asked to blindly approve a deal to throw millions at a company run by a business newcomer in an industry with a high failure rate. Instead, we’re being asked to trust a Governor who already isn’t being forthcoming on releasing public records. Instead, we’re being asked to approve $600 million in revenue bonds—sight unseen—and then hope that the administration will put together a plan to start tolling trucks in a manner that will generate enough revenue to support the bonds. We don’t basic details on the amount of the tolls or where the tolling gantries will be located before approving the bonds. 
While the Governor is selling this “truck toll two step” as a reasonable effort to pass some simple enabling legislation (handing over the money) and then work out the details in what she calls a “separate public process” down the line, there’s another way to look at this. She’s giving the legislature plausible deniability, setting it up so they can take an easy vote to approve the $600 million in bonds without having to take responsibility for the details of the final program. It is an attack on good government, essentially turning the General Assembly into an accountability-free zone, when it should be the place where tough questions are asked and all the details are provided before new bond obligations are created."

Except ... there's one leetle problem ... You see, before Senator Raptakis was against the bill, he actually voted for the bill! Transparency? We knew less then, then we do now!

So Lou, take your false populism ... your media savvy ... your cynical misuse of the public trust ...... and ...

​The Voting Record ....

WPRI Channel 12 Reporting

For the record, Senator Raptakis has been invited on the Coalition to discuss his voting history. He has declined our requests.


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Mr. (401) ... Gene Valicenti Gives The Coalition Radio Love !

10/29/2015

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Gene weighs in on our interview with Nightclub Impresario Jim Vickers - Manchester 65
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My Response To: Bill Reynolds: So where do the PawSox go from here?

9/24/2015

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"The dream of a state-of-the-art baseball stadium on the old Route 195 land, a visible symbol of a new beginning for an old city, one that was going to be an economic engine to perk up a tired old downtown. Complete with new people streaming into the city on warm summer nights, new jobs, new restaurants, new buzz, new everything. A symbol of a new chapter in the city's long rich history."

Perhaps this is the elites, the connected, the "Guyz who know a Guyz" dream ... Our dreams involve schools that educate, safe neighborhoods, working roads & infrastructure ... Mass transportation that serves the needs of the many ... beaches that are clean, & affordable. You speak glowingly of James Skeffington, as if he were some sort of visionary .. when in fact his "visions" have become financial nightmares for those left behind ... as we lie mired in generational debt as a result of his "visionary" moral obligation bonds ... inflicted upon us for the construction of useless, empty edifices .. for his own personal profit ...

This is a tale of two cities, bunky, and the reality show that is the tale of the real La Prov is about to crush all of us ... The cliche' shots at talk radio (the peoples forum) aside, regular folks have had enough of supporting someone else's lifestyle, while their dreams are crushed. We no longer believe the tales spun by the media, the solons, the "Civic Leaders" who in total represent a mutual admiration society that the rest of us can no longer afford ...

So you are right ... It ends right here, right now. Time for y'all to pay your own way. Your delusions of grandeur are officially your own .. Effective Immediately.

www.CoalitionRadio.us

http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150921/SPORTS/150929820/?#loadComment
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An open letter to Mark Patinkin

5/3/2015

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Author's Note: Mark Patinkin is actually my inspiration, if you will, for blogging ... A few years back, I called him to complain to him about his descent from award winning writer to a purveyor of Seinfeld-esque observational humour. After a thoughtful back and forth, he suggested that I blog. Well, here I am.

Mark,

Every independent economist presents incontrovertible proof of one simple truth: Sports franchises are simply a reallocation of local disposable income already slated for entertainment of one form or another. The entertainment dollar not spent on a local baseball franchise, will, in fact be spent elsewhere, locally: a restaurant, a play, a movie theater.

The Principles opposing this "investment" are strikingly straightforward:

A. State Government Has No Place Subsidizing Private Enterprise

B. Rhode Island Must Cease Being The ATM For The Wealthy/Powerful

C. I-195 Space Was Freed For Open Space & Economic Opportunity

It is not the role of government to subsidize/eliminate investment risk for private enterprise. Government should not pick winners or losers in what passes for the free market. Corporate Insiders have made their life's work connecting the dots between cronies in Rhode Island government & the marketplace. It is clearly their mission to socialize risk and privatize success. Because of their efforts, Rhode Island is a poorer place, on an economic, as well as a philosophical level. Clearly, this current "investment", and I use the term loosely, will not be supported by the private equity market. The owners are unwilling to invest their own capital, without some sort of long term guarantee underwritten by the government, and, as a result, the taxpayer. It is time for Rhode Island to stop being held hostage, in the literal sense, by the Crony Corporatists of the world.

The taxpayer dollars diverted to this folly instead should be spent on our crumbling infrastructure, providing tax relief to a nearly obliterated middle class, broadening the academic scope of our state's universities, or any of a host of pressing issues that will impact the lives of everyday Rhode Islanders.

As a member of the elite, you speak of the Providence PawSox experience in the same glowing terms that your brethren speak of a dinner on Federal Hill, an afternoon at Bonnet Shores, or a jazz brunch in Newport.

For many of us, those are a dream. Debilitating health care costs, private/parochial tuitions to pay for an education that we are already taxed to death for, long term under or - worse  yet - unemployment are our day to day realities.

If, hypothetically, you are a columnist for a fading urban newspaper, who might see the advertising binge of a casino, or a newly relocated professional baseball team as a potential savior, you might feel differently.

Real leadership? Addressing the realities of the "Rhode Island Condition", not dismissing them as the whinings of a citizenry for whom "The Lively Experiment" has been a crushing failure. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity, on The Coalition Talk Radio, to ask a simple question. "What do you say to politician who say our negativity is to blame, and not the incompetence that preceded that negativity?

My own answer, the same which, sadly, I must direct to you is this soubriquet: "How Can We Miss You If You Won't Go Away?"
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The Shortest Blog I've Ever Written, or  How Governor Ray-mun-dee PR Flacks Make The Mundane Monumental

2/16/2015

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The crack news team at 630WPRO reported today, "...With a flick of her pen, Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive to cut costs in municipalities and save their tax payers money."

The order tasks Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee to meet with mayors and local leaders to best decide on how to share services and pass savings onto citizens.

“Cities and towns right now are doing their best, but they’re struggling,” says Raimondo, "Families in Rhode Island and businesses in Rhode Island are struggling because property taxes are high and rising; and the way we are going to fix that is by coming together and coming up with creative solutions to keep costs down.”

A thought, if you will ....

Why do they need the Lt Governor, to be ... errr "empowered?" Can't they just empower themselves to find best practices? 
Does this mean they haven't been trying to find best practices? 

This "Executive Order" doesn't really cut costs, it just says we should think about it. Why is this "News"? Why does the stories lede infer she is actually engaging in cost cutting? Why does the Governor treat every pronouncement (see earlier blog re: Saving For College) as some earth shattering accomplishment, when all she is doing is manipulating the citizenry? Some help out there, please?

Any insight would be appreciated. I'm really at a loss here.

http://www.630wpro.com/2015/02/13/raimondo-sign-executive-order-to-help-municipalities-save-money/

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When Did Civil Disobedience Become The Exclusive Province Of The White Middle Class?

1/19/2015

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I was actually gonna give it a rest ... Really ... but after the stupidity that passes for legislation at Halitosis Hall (The Rhode Island State House: All Credit To Rudy Cheeks) I simply couldn't hold back ... That a God Awful Attention Whore from our State Senate, Lou Raptakis, someone who found no outrage in supporting the execrable Richard Licht & Joseph Montalbano for the Judiciary, would suspend a fundamental political tool, civil disobedience, in order to grab headlines, was just a little too much. What's at stake here is far bigger than a group of protestors blocking a highway.

Consider:

"A man who tried to force his way into a meeting among U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and local business leaders and politicians was arrested today and dragged bloodied from the building."

"When he was hustled into a side corridor by a uniformed police officer and another unidentified person, the man began using his flag to fend off the officer and shouted, ``You're not going to keep me out of there.''

The man could be seen struggling with police as he was being handcuffed.

The sight of him being led, blood streaming down his face, to a waiting police car brought threats of other civil disobedience from demonstrators who were ordered to keep marching in front of the building but refused. The crowd then rushed to the side door."

A scene from Ferguson, Missouri … or perhaps the streets of New York City, post Grand Jury Verdict?

Or:

"Seven of them were arrested for disorderly conduct when about 250 demonstrators erupted from a meeting and blocked an entrance ramp to Interstate 95" 

This must be news reporting from the recent series of protests outside of Providence's Public Safety Headquarters ...

This analysis from the fine folks @ The Hartford Courant ....

"local radio talk shows started encouraging depositors to speak up, and a grass-roots movement emerged that took them onto the streets."

The lead photo should be a dead giveaway ... We aren't talking about ANY of the events of this past year ... These quotes directly reference civil disobedience waged by primarily white middle aged depositors of the failed Rhode Island Credit Unions, whose deposits were frozen by the collapse of the then infamous RISDIC, at the instigation of the talk radio medium that would demonize individuals involved in the protests of the past few months ...

Can we draw differences as well as parallels between these two moments in history? Of course ...

One series of protests are a community reaction to the seemingly inexplicable inability of the American Criminal Justice System to indict police officers for what would appear to be appallingly obvious to the common man: That there appears to be clear justification for trying police officers for excessive force, leading to the deaths of American Citizens.

Another series of protests, from all those years ago, are a reaction to the sudden loss of income, & property to a Corrupted Banking System.

The recent protests highlight a dangerous pattern of behavior, where common civil liberties are taken from a group of individuals, primarily because of racial profiling .... Under the guise of the "Broken Windows" theory of policing, a failed tactic of a failed "War On Drugs".

The Banking Protests? Acts of desperation from a suddenly bankrupted Middle Class

Why is one period of history, where the white middle class rose up in reaction to the theft of their property considered heroic? While even alleged Libertarian & Liberty Types are ready to bring down the full force of the government, even going so far to invoke the despised Patriot Act, upon the perpetrators of I95 & I93?

Please. Explain.

Civil Disobedience does not exist to entertain ... It is a necessary tool, designed to outrage ... to call attention to issues that continue, in this case, to be ignored for generations. Yes, racism. Folks who engage in civil disobedience are not here to be your friends, or to level reasoned discourse ... All of that has been tried, and has failed, miserably ...

We have just celebrated the Legacy of Martin Luther King, a man to whom civil disobedience was no stranger ... As the HIV virus has been, at least contained, we must honor the members of "Act Up", who redefined political theater, and managed to convince an in-denial nation that the Aids Epidemic was a threat to all, Gay & Straight ...

And just how well has "Working Within The System" worked out for African Americans, for whom "Stop & Frisk" and "Broken Windows" have reduced life to a series of daily indignities, often leading to indiscriminate arrests, and possible violence? I'm sure they take great comfort in the age old canard ... "If they've done nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear ..."

http://articles.courant.com/1991-09-06/news/0000212392_1_depositors-rights-organization-banking-crisis-bruce-g-sundlun

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910308&slug=1270433

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1991/Rhode-Island-Depositors-Hitting-the-Streets-Statehouse-to-Agitate/id-c6f92d461703046fd40177ce108b3208

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1991/Rhode-Island-Depositor-Unrest-Boils-Again/id-11461502d862948a9b50c4c12d2be270

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When Did Rhode Island Media Decide To Become Gub'ments Personal Press Secretaries?

12/11/2014

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"Raimondo aims to give every RI child a chance to go to college" breathlessly headlined WPRI.Com! Pictured beside this pronouncement of near Biblical import? A beaming Governor Elect Gina Raimondo, with a politically correct, positively postured bevy of constituents surrounding her... No ageist, she ... the crowd hits all the highlights ... an adorable baby ... a spectrum of ages/ethnic backgrounds presenting the appropriate Rainbow Coalition ... Seth Magaziner, Treasurer To Be, leans in aggressively ... he may not know much 'bout investing ... but he is clearly schooled in the Fine Art Of The Photo Op ...

The Journal concurs ... "Governor-elect Gina Raimondo, the state treasurer’s office and others are making it easier for young parents to enroll their newborns in a college savings fund."

So what could possibly wrong with this picture? As a purported member of the chattering class, am I so cynical, that I would deny Ms Ray-Mun-Dee her spot in the sun?

As a wise philosopher once said .. "Splain Lucy, Splain!"

Problem 1: 100$ Really?
By claiming that Governor Raimondo was giving each student a chance, did WPRI mean, literally, a chance? As the parent of a college student, I can attest that the only chance 100 bucks is gonna get you is 100 Scratchies .... Go to the State Line, on Rte 1 in South Attleboro, maybe they can give you a tip on which scratch cards are playing hot. 100$? Only 259,900$ to go ...

Problem 2: The AllianceBernstein CollegeBound Fund. Morningstar gives the Fund a Negative Outlook (Is this starting to seem achingly familiar?) The problem? AllianceBernstein has amongst the most onerous fee structure of any State 529 Plan. Sayeth Huffpo, in an analysis of top/bottom performing 529's  "Here are the bottom of the barrel. If you are invested in these, you should consider rolling them into another plan because the fund fees are too high" Yeah, you betcha ... Lil Rhody was right there ...

Let's be blunt .. the 100$ is a come-on, designed to encourage the residents of Lil Rhody to double down on mediocrity. AllianceBernstein will profit handsomely if, with the encouragement of the Governor, the citizenry is duped into putting their hard earned savings there ... For Alliance/Gina, its win win ... Alliance gets some more victims ... errr.... investors, Gina gets a photo op ... and another healthy dose of feel good spin ... Who can resist?

My real complaint? The Legacy Media's wholesale acceptance of this swill ...  Insulting us by classifying this as News. At least the Journal mentioned AllianceBernstein's atrocious performance at the tail end of their "news piece". But after a year of inadequately analyzed Mayoral promises, a Casino Debate that should have been a slam dunk, and their seeming inability to fully comprehend RhodeMap, can someone please sponsor a Media Intervention?

Pretty Please?

The PO Taxpayer.

http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2014/06/23/13-best-worst-529-college-savings-plans-of-2014-m?page=11
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-wang/the-best-and-worst-529-co_b_5699191.html
http://www.providencejournal.com/news/government/20141209-in-r.i.-saving-for-college-can-soon-begin-at-birth.ece

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Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange

11/18/2014

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    While My Confiscatory Taxes Feed An Incompetent Public School System (that Is Clearly More Focused On The Quality Of Teacher Compensation
    Who May Be Borderline Functional In The Real World
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