12 to Watch in 2012: The Race in Congressional District 1
Friday, December 30, 2011
He's smiling now, but a rough road lies ahead: the battle for CD 1.
Cicilline will spend his time in Washington attempting to save payroll tax cuts for millions of working class Americans and attempting to cut trillions from the national debt, but the real focus will be on a re-election campaign that could wind up being the most expensive House race in Rhode Island history.
But that doesn’t mean Cicilline won’t have his share of questions to answer as well. In a city that he left with what Mayor Angel Taveras called a “category five fiscal hurricane,” how much was he hiding during his 2010 Congressional campaign? That plus still-unfolding scandals within the Providence Community Action Program (ProCAP) and the Providence Economic Development Partnership (PEDP) will give his opponents plenty of ammunition next year.
Still, despite an approval rating of just 23 percent in the latest Brown University poll, Cicilline may be the favorite among a potentially crowded field of Republican and Democratic challengers, all of whom have their own warts; John Loughlin (too right), Brendan Doherty (too inexperienced], David Segal (too left) and Anthony Gemma (too unpredictable).
Cicilline benefits from having the most campaign experience of the bunch and he clearly won’t go down without a battle. He’ll have the funds, the ground game and as one political insider told GoLocalProv, he has spent the past 12 months building up his political capital with local Democrats. “David has been everywhere this year,” the source said. “Every fundraiser, every event, everywhere. He knows he’s got to fight for every vote.”
The question is whether his opponents can make Providence the central focus of the race for Congress. If they can paint Cicilline as the man who ran away to Washington while his city was crumbling, the 1st District could very well elect a new Representative.
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Comments:
frank bentley
8:33am on Friday, December 30, 2011
nobody beats him..not the colonel, the soldier, not even a plumber
Winston Smith
9:57am on Friday, December 30, 2011
partially right on that one, Lil Dave beats himself. He will be John Loughlin's biggest asset.
bob ingerson
10:23am on Friday, December 30, 2011
was this written by lil davy himself? no one could think that much of him.
peter costello
10:50am on Friday, December 30, 2011
Maybe he will pay the City back for the infamous $75,000 check he knew nothing about, and also pay for the Audit needed for over $300,000. Then maybe just maybe he'll be truthful about how the City ended up in the mess it's in. Then he might get another term.
anthony sionni
11:27am on Friday, December 30, 2011
“David has been everywhere this year,” the source said. “Every fundraiser, every event, everywhere. He knows he’s got to fight for every vote.”
Thats part of the problem, hes been everywhere giving speeches, issuing press releases and fundraising,but what has he done for Rhode Island? NOTHING!!!
I am a democrat and I am not supporting him, you can be that stupid,we are all paying for his mismanagement in Providence now!!!
Mike Govern
11:32am on Friday, December 30, 2011
If we vote this clown in again we deserve what we'll get--more of the same: higher taxes, less services, and fatter public union pensions.
allan pp
11:33am on Friday, December 30, 2011
I hope voters are smart enough to send this POS packing. He's an embarrassment to anyone and everyone with any sort of connection to him.
Charles Drago
12:04pm on Friday, December 30, 2011
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“Cicilline will spend his time in Washington attempting to save payroll tax cuts for millions of working class Americans and attempting to cut trillions from the national debt[.]”
NONSENSE! David Cicilline will continue to preen and posture in the role of hard-working savior of the working class – but David Cicilline will accomplish NOTHING for us, even as he attempts to convince us that trying and failing – over and over again – constitute grounds for re-election.
“[B]ut [Cicilline’s] real focus will be on a re-election campaign that could wind up being the most expensive House race in Rhode Island history.”
CORRECT! As usual, David Cicilline will abandon his responsibilities to the electorate and instead focus on his only true interest: HIMSELF! David Cicilline is his own constituency of one, a fact all too painfully evident to the people of Providence and the RI 1st who have suffered grievously at the hands of this dishonorable, inept poseur.
“For the Congressman, the key will be trying to convince Democrats that despite his QUESTIONABLE HANDLING of Providence’s finances during his eight year tenure as Mayor, he has been a solid Democratic vote while in Washington – something that could go a long way in a district President Obama won with 65 percent of the vote in 2008.” [emphasis added]
David Cicilline’s “handing” of Providence’s finances and public schools is hardly “questionable.” It is clear to all independent observers of sound mind and good will that David Cicilline’s incompetence drove Providence to the brink of financial and educational ruin – and that David Cicilline lied about all of it repeatedly so that he could advance his hideous personal agenda.
As for David Cicilline’s “solid Democratic vote” – it has accomplished NOTHING OF VALUE for Rhode Island. David Cicilline has not created even one job. David Cicilline has not created even one infrastructure project. David Cicilline has not brought home early from the illegal Middle East wars just one Rhode Islander: John “G.I. Joe” Loughlin. David Cicilline is as grossly incompetent a legislator as any who have “served” in the history of elected office in Rhode Island.
“’David has been everywhere this year,” the source said. “Every fundraiser, every event, everywhere. He knows he’s got to fight for every vote.’”
David Cicilline is being shunned at Rhode Island fundraisers. Thus he is being forced to turn for campaign dollars to national special interest groups – to which the great Progressive Cicilline will be indebted. And as is usually the case when it comes to David Cicilline, the taxpayers of Rhode Island will pay those debts.
“The question is whether his opponents can make Providence the central focus of the race for Congress. If they can paint Cicilline as the man who ran away to Washington while his city was crumbling, the 1st District could very well elect a new Representative.”
NONSENSE! David Cicilline’s miserable performance as Providence mayor is only one-third of the story. Yes, he ran away from the disasters for which he is personally responsible, lying and preening and posturing all the way to D.C. Yes, his opponents will not allow David Cicilline’s lies and incompetence in-state to be forgotten.
But just as significant will be reminders of how David Cicilline has failed in his duties as U.S. congressman. David Cicilline has done nothing for us and everything for himself – and he will lie, cheat, misrepresent, mislead, misinform, and disinform throughout the 2012 campaign cycle.
David Cicilline cannot run and cannot hide from the sad truth: David Cicilline is a dishonorable man and an incompetent public servant – a lying little failure whose public life will come to a long overdue end in 2012.
Michael Furtado
12:34pm on Friday, December 30, 2011
Don't beat around the bush, Mr. Drago - yell us what you REALLY think.
john paycheck
2:08pm on Friday, December 30, 2011
not much objectivity here....is myrth a shareholder of golocalprov???
Charles Drago
2:13pm on Friday, December 30, 2011
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Anthony Gemma "too unpredictable"???
As opposed to David Cicilline, whose lying, incompetence, and pathological self-aggrandizement is all TOO PREDICTABLE???
Where do we find such "analysts"???
Lance Chappell
11:00am on Monday, January 02, 2012
Davey boy has lied his way into a corner. It has finally caught up with him. Enjoy your last year of vacation in Washington.
guy smily
7:40pm on Monday, January 02, 2012
David Cicilline will lose ...write it down. He is one and done!