The Scoop: Block Denied Access to March in Columbus Day Parade

Monday, October 14, 2013

Anthony Faccenda, The Scoop

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Block Denied Access to March in Columbus Day Parade

GoLocal has learned that Moderate Party candidate for governor Ken Block was denied access to march in Sunday’s Columbus Day parade in Federal Hill.

“Yes, that’s the case,” Matthew Schweich, Policy Director for Block, told GoLocal. Schweich declined to comment any further.

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Interestingly, sources tell GoLocal that candidate for General Treasurer Ernie Almonte, who is not currently an elected official, was allowed to march in the parade.

Being an elected official hasn’t always granted politicians easy entrance to march in Rhode Island's various parades. In his autobiography Pasta and Politics, former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci chronicled his long-standing struggle with Bristol Fourth of July Parade organizers, who were less than welcoming to Cianci during his 1980 gubernatorial run.

Additionally, in 2008, former Providence Mayor David Cicilline was a vocal opponent against Cianci marching in the very same parade saying, “It is enormously embarrassing and defies logic and ethics in every conceivable way.”

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