NEW: Speaker Fox Backtracks on 38 Studios Comments
Friday, October 19, 2012
The campaign spokesman for House Speaker Gordon Fox is backtracking on comments Fox made on 38 Studios during a debate earlier this week.
On Wednesday evening, Fox asserted the members of the House knew about Curt Schilling’s video game company when they voted on legislation that made it possible for the EDC to give the company a $75 million loan guarantee. But in a statement Friday, spokesman Bill Fischer said Fox was simply talking about media reports that suggested 38 Studios was considering moving to Rhode Island.
Fischer released the follow statement:
"As he has previously stated, Speaker Fox was aware that 38 Studios was interested in relocating to Rhode Island. In fact, it was reported in the Providence Journal on March 24, 2010, well before the loan-guarantee program was debated. Speaker Fox has always made it clear that this legislation was never specific to 38 Studios or any particular company – any company seeking funding would have to be vetted by the EDC.
"When Speaker Fox was addressing this issue at a neighborhood debate on Wednesday evening, he indicated there was public knowledge of Curt Schilling's interest in coming to Rhode Island because it had been publicized. He did not mean to infer in any way that representatives were aware that the legislation included funding for 38 Studios, because it did not. Representatives did not have information because there was no earmark in the legislation for 38 Studios or for any other company.”
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Charles Marsh
8:38pm on Friday, October 19, 2012
The 38 Studio debacle occurred because inept, politically chosen cronies make up the EDC. In other words, its obvious now that Mr. Fox, and other state “leaders”, had loaded up the EDC with incompetent people as a reward for their loyalty. Hence, in turn the EDC cronies were eager to prove they were competent by pulling off a big deal. But unfortunately they never really understood what they were doing in the first place.
ella mentry
12:13pm on Saturday, October 20, 2012
they all knew..case closed.
Vote the lawmakers out on Nov 6th..Especially the leadership..Fox, MAttiello, PAiva Weed, Helio Melo, DaPonte and others all knew of the deal. DOn;t believe their campaign cock and bull story that they did not know when they house to house campaignin gfor your vote. Do not vote them back in. They may call themselves "Democrats" but they really are not..they cater to the rich..Look at PAiva Weed for example. She sponsored and voted for a tourist tax- it would hit her Newport constituents reallly hard. The clueless lawyer thought it would help Newport business people and then when it backfired and the business people and restaurant owners asked her to get rid of it, she did ...thi syear it got reversed.
Yet she kept the tax on the little guy trying to make a living--tax on pet groomers and taxi cab drive/limousine drivers. The leadership -Fox-Mattiello Paiva Weed, Brian Newberry- they are all lawyers making 6 figure salaries, more than most Rhode islanders and they all took the 3.2% raise as well. Voters in those districts need to change how they think. when you vote that Democratic lever., you are not voting for the same democratic ideals you think you are...They are no longer on the same wavelength as democrats. Democrats don't vote against their own..but this group of lawmakers did. They followed Fox like the sheeple they are. Vote them out.
Put in fresh faces with fresh ideas and wee need a grassroots movement to get term limits by referendum.
Gary Arnold
7:32pm on Saturday, October 20, 2012
Fox is into this up to his neck yet he actually is able to defer any action on legal actions, of course it would involve him and he would be ousted as the thief that he is.
He is the crook and he is covering his tracks, which ironically is OK with the GA, guess we don’t have to think too hard about the GA allegiance to themselves.