slides: Side of the Rhode: Who’s Hot & Who’s Not? - August 11, 2017
Friday, August 11, 2017
Russell J. Moore, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™
Every Friday, GoLocalProv's Russ Moore breaks down who is rising and who is falling in RI politics, business, and sports. Moore has worked on both sides of the desk in Rhode Island media, both for newspapers and on political campaigns.
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Ted Siedle
The Forbes Columnist and Rhode Island pension fund critic is eyeing a run for Rhode Island Attorney General.
This is tremendous news as Siedle has shown a tremendous amount of dedication towards protecting the little guy in Rhode Island through his pension fund advocacy.
All signs point that he would do a tremendous job as the state’s top law enforcement official. It will be interesting to see if he takes the plunge.
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Josh Rosen
The UCLA quarterback dropped an avalanche of truth on the NCAA during an interview with Bleacher Report by pointing out that there’s little in common with being a football player at an elite school and a scholar. “Football and school don’t go together. They just don’t. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs. There are guys here who have no business being in school, but they’re here because this is the path to the NFL.” Rosen is right.
The schools make tens of millions off of these unbelievable talented athletes. The education aspect doesn’t matter or mean anything. The time is long past due to pay these athletes for their labor!
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Rafael Ovalles
The Rhode Island Commission on Judicial Tenure and Discipline has recommended that Ovalles, an RI District Court judge, be removed from his position, the steepest penalty allowed by the commission.
Ovalles was accused of abusive conduct towards lawyers and sexual harassment. Ovalles will appeal this decision, but this is more bad news for the embattled judge.
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Stephen Miller
Now that Anthony Scaramucci has been fired, I suppose his smooth talking, get-along-with-the-press style have been purged along with him. Enter Stephen Miller, who took to the podium and berated CNN’s Jim Acosta for asking if the White House’s new green card policy would discriminate against certain populations. Miller accused Acosta of having a “cosmopolitan” worldview.
How ironic (read: hypocritical), it is, that the Washington Post reported this week that Miller lives in a $1 million condo in CityCenter, the posh, upscale Washington neighborhood. That’s pretty cosmopolitan, Mr. Miller!
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Google
The technology giant fired employee James Damore for writing a manifesto that was critical of the company’s obsession with diversity and what he believes are over-the-top attempts to close the so-called wage gap between men and women. Firing someone for having politically incorrect opinions isn’t a good look.
Of course, they have the right to fire employees for saying things that they think makes the company look bad. But firing someone for speaking their mind makes them look even worse--especially someone who prefaced their remarks by saying “I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity, and I think we should strive for more.”
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