Guest MINDSETTER™ Tony Santos: Lally, Cicilline, and Raimondo - Follow the Breadcrumbs

Monday, September 14, 2015

Guest MINDSETTER ™ Tony Santos

 

September 11, 2015

If the Rhode Island Ethics commission wasn’t reduced from Stallion to Gelding, they’d be focused not on the “Revolving Door” to a manufactured post in the Raimondo Administration, but to the what may have been a “Back Door” attempt to seat Susan Cicilline Buonanno, to RI District 33 seat abandoned by former State Rep. Donald Lally back in March 2015,  Buoanno is sister to CD1’s (D-RI) David Cicilline

Ask yourself one question: If Susan Cicilline Buonanno won the special election to RI District 33 would the trail of breadcrumbs to David Lally’s newfound post in Raimondo Administration still be the subject of a Revolving Door argument or a serious ethics investigation?  

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Chronology and Breadcrumbs:

After some 24 years of service, Donald Lally  RI District 33 (Narragansett) was one of 47 General Assembly members who ran unopposed in 2014

March 17, 2015

Rep. Lally announces his resignation citing the need to spend more time with family and his law practice after the loss of both parents several months earlier.

March 17, 2015

Within hours of Rep. Lally’s resignation, Susan Cicilline Buonanno (4 term Narragansett Town Council) and sister to CD1’s (D-RI) David Cicilline announces her intent to run for Rep. Lally’s District 33 post.

April 28, 2015  (As reported by GoLocalProv)

Glenna Hagopian former Narragansett Town Council President files Ethics complaint citing Susan Cicilline Buonanno’s use of Public resources to further her campaign. (Gladstone Elementary email  address and Gladstone office phone number as contact for Campaign reports)

May 5, 2015

Despite support from House Speaker Mattiello, Providence Firefighters, and brother David, Susan Cicilline Buonanno loses her Democratic Primary bid to Carol Hagan McEntee by 75 Votes.  Buonanno’s primary loss was no doubt attributed to the ethics complaint filed just one week earlier

September 10, 2015

After just four months of resigning his post as District 33 Rep. in the R.I. General Assembly, Donald Lally hires on “Small Business Liaison” in the Raimondo Administration, an un-posted $87K Position.

Like so many unreckoned political scenarios and scandals in Rhode Island, sometimes all you have is a trail of breadcrumbs to follow.  Pundits, good government groups and the media have developed tunnel vision over Governor Raimondo’s “Smith Hill Two-Step” to dodge the “Revolving Door” policy by hiring Former Rep. Lally as an administration staffer, and haven’t stepped back looked at the bigger picture to ask the question “what if”.

A difference of 75 Votes in Susan Cicilline Buonanno’s democratic primary run and subsequent win of District 33 seat would have changed the public dynamic of the revolving door ruckus and raised several serious issues.

Did Donald Lally’s unopposed 2014 run and premature 2015 resignation serve as a place marker for a special election opportunity for Susan Cicilline Buonanno to warm the seat of District 33, or was she simply capitalizing on political opportunity?

With only a four month window from resignation to hiring on to the Governor staff former Rep.  

Lally’s stated reasons for resignation of his District post has made a dent in his credibility leaving the Captain Obvious question … Though Susan Cicilline Buonanno failed to take District 33 Seat was Lally’s subsequent hiring honoring good faith horse trading at the time of General Assembly resignation?

 Any Horse Trading or wrangling calls for 2 or more parties, and of course bartering terms.  To the Average Joe the scenario surrounding Former Rep. Lallys hire looks to be a product of Horse Trading, and carrries  the scent of stiff downwind breeze from the Johnston Landfill ,and not by chance selection of the Governor breakroom dartboard. 

Governor Raimondo’s tenure on Smith Hill would be a might smoother if she’d reckon the electorate didn’t just come down with the last drop of rain.  There’s little doubt former Rep. Lally’s appointment to the manufactured position of “Business Liaison” was a product of Political Patronage. How the truth of this came to be, well sometimes the trail to follow is the one with the breadcrumbs.
 

Tony Santos is Editor, Writer, and MuckRaker for RedneckRepublic.org, a Politically Incorrect, Cast Iron Conservative Blog Outpost

 

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