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Projo Letters, Monday, 04.12.10
01:00 AM EDT on Monday, April 12, 2010
Vote on Irons loophole
David Carlin, the former majority leader of the Rhode Island Senate, says that “if the people of Rhode Island amend the state constitution in order to close the ‘Irons loophole,’ we will have struck a terrific blow against democracy.” [...]

Operation Clean Government plans peaceful demonstration to raise awareness of court decision that threatens to kill effective ethics oversight in Rhode Island

At 9:30 am on May 13th, the R.I. Supreme Court will hear the RI Ethics Commission appeal of an October 2008 Superior Court decision that dismissed ethics charges against ex-Senate [...]

Of all the events scheduled for April 25th,2009 the Operation Clean Government R.I. Fiscal Forum is probably one of the most timely and significant.  R.I. is in the midst of a crushing financial crisis as evidenced by its very high unemployment and huge budget deficits.  For years the economic experts and business leaders have been [...]

On March 26th on Operation Clean Government’s (OCG) State of the State public access TV show, President Chuck Barton, 1st Vice President Robert Benson and Attorney Tom Dickinson discussed the R.I. Superior Court decision that allows state legislators to violate the state’s ethics  laws .  In October 2008, the R.I. Superior Court decided that the [...]

I sent this Letter-to-the-Editor (LTE) below to the Providence Journal.  You never know if they will publish an LTE or not.  I sent in three different LTE’s to the ProJo debunking Patrick Crowley’s claim that unions are still weak in R.I.  I haven’t seen any of those LTE’s published yet.  I hope they publish this [...]