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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 [...]

There is no doubt that R.I.’s three largest state pension plans for state workers, municipal workers and teachers are unfunded unless you think an unfunded liability of SEVEN BILLION dollars is nothing to worry about. However it is unfair to the current vested workers and teachers to now make drastic changes to their pension plans [...]

T.R. Catanzarite, author of a Projo commentary titled “Unionized states are the best,” says “There are more people in Rhode Island and in the United States who want to join unions than who want to abolish them.”  He says this claim is supported by surveys and has been reported in the Providence Journal.  Yet he [...]

I see where Senator John Tassoni wants to introduce legislation to create a 7-member state panel to mediate disputes between parents.  These disputes arise occasionally at youth sporting events in RI.   The ProJo editorial today really lambasted Tassoni for this idea, saying it most likely would be costly, time-consuming and unconstitutional.  I can’t quote [...]

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 [...]

On March 5, 2009 the Providence Journal published Bev Clay’s Letter-to-the-Editor (see below) on the problems that occur when using the Straight-Party option on optical-scanning voting machines.  Bev is a n Operation Clean Government Board Member.  A.B.
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Beverly Clay: Fix the confusing R.I. ballot
Thursday, March 5, 2009, Providence Journal Letter
The straight-ticket “lever” on [...]

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This is actually the second post on the OCG web site if we include the “Welcome” post from WordPress.  I’m just learning how to use the blog software (WordPress) and trying to set up the blog home page.  We have to install widgets and plugins.  I’ve done some of them already.  For instance, the Archive [...]