Campaign Update – Are You Ready for ‘Governor Healey’?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Roberts asks if Rhode Islanders are ready for ‘Governor Healey.’ Langevin and Cicilline support $250 Social Security payment. Former AG Pine endorses Wallin. … and more from the campaign trail.
Roberts Questions Healey’s Ability to Serve
The race for lieutenant governor is heating up as the Elizabeth Roberts campaign questions whether independent candidate Robert Healey is ready to be governor—if he is elected lieutenant governor and has to replace the sitting governor.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTHealey recently wrote an op-ed in which he spoke of one day taking on the role of Governor, after reinventing the office of Lieutenant Governor. He wrote, "I stand ready to take the helm if required and steadily steer the ship of the state."
In response, Dan Meuse, Roberts' campaign manager asked "Are Rhode Islanders ready for where Bob Healey would steer us?"
Meuse points out how Healey's proposals may make RI's already tough financial state even worse for Rhode Islanders.
"I'm not sure anyone really knows what direction he'd take us. What we do know is that Bob Healey has proposed, multiple times, to raise income tax rates by 35-40 percent. We know he thinks that providing assistance to small businesses is 'socialism' and he opposes it. How are Rhode Islanders supposed to have confidence during these challenging financial times that Bob Healey will navigate through the storm?"
Meuse added: "Rhode Islanders have a clear choice on November 2 - a professional, hard-working public servant who is engaged in government and whose policy stances are clearly articulated or a perennial candidate whose Tea Party backed message does not speak to the responsibility of the office."
Langevin and Cicilline Support $250 Social Security Payment
Congressional candidates Langevin and David Cicilline announced their support for a piece of legislation that will provide Social Security recipients with an additional $250 payment.
The additional single payment is meant to compensate for the lack of a cost-of-living-adjustment in next year's Social Security Payment. Without the Cost-of-Living-Adjustment, senior citizens will lose part of their spending power, according to the candidates: income levels will stay the same, while costs of living will increase.
Added Langevin: "Six in ten seniors rely on Social Security for more than half of their income, and about a third of retirees have little other than Social Security on which to live."
Former Attorney General Pine Endorses Wallin
Former Attorney General Jeff Pine has chosen to endorse Republican Attorney General candidate Erik Wallin earlier today.
General Pine cited Wallin's experience as a Special Assistant Attorney General to RI as one of the primary reasons for his endorsement. "Rhode Islanders deserve someone as Attorney General that is not a political insider beholden to the old way of doing things - instead, they deserve someone with Erik's experience as a prosecutor having served in that office," Pine said.
"I am very pleased that General Pine has endorsed me,” Wallin said. “His term was really the time when that office shown in its ability to crack down on crime in this state. Like myself, General Pine cared for Rhode Islanders and wasn't a political insider."
Fraternal Order of Police Endorses Candidates
The Rhode Island Fraternal Order of Police has endorsed the following candidates in the election:
• Frank T. Caprio for Governor
• Robert J. Healey, Jr. for Lieutenant Governor
• Gina Raimondo for General Treasurer
• Peter F. Kilmartin for Attorney General
• A. Ralph Mollis for Secretary of State
• John J. Loughlin for District 1 Representative
• James R. Langevin for District 2 Representative
In response to this endorsement, Loughlin said, "I am thrilled to receive the endorsement of the RI FOP, representing the rank and file membership of every RI police department from Providence to Portsmouth. Clearly they appreciate my commitment to enforcing our laws against illegal immigration and they understand that I am the candidate in this race that supports their mission."
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