Rhode Island Politics

Rhode Island lawmkers handily overrode Governor Donald Carcieri's heartless veto of legislation granting funeral decision-making rights to domestic partners. Said Carcieri at the time of his veto: "This bill represents a disturbing trend over the past few years of the...  

(CNN) - Lincoln Chafee Monday will formally announce his bid for Rhode Island governor Monday. The former Republican senator-turned-independent will officially jump into the race at an event in Warwick, where he once served as mayor. The 56 year old Chafee lost his U.S. senate seat in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse after a bitter Republican primary battle against Stephen Laffey. Chafee eventually left the GOP and is now an independent.  

Four years after losing a bid for re-election, former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island will be back on the ballot as a candidate for governor this November -- but not as a Democrat. "I believe that running as an independent will free me from the constraints that party politics impose on candidates," Chafee said.  

WARWICK, R.I. - Former Republican senator Lincoln Chafee, who succeeded his father in the US Senate but repeatedly broke ranks with party leadership until a Democrat defeated him, announced yesterday that he will run as an independent candidate for governor of Rhode Island.  

Lincoln Chafee is officially entering the Rhode Island governor's race. Chafee, a former Republican senator who had earlier formed an exploratory campaign to start fundraising for the race, is running as an independent to succeed Gov. Don Carcieri (kuh-CHEHR'-ee) in the 2010 election.  

Rhode Island Republicans May Decide to Exclude Independent Voters from their ...Ballot Access... executive committee will meet during the first week in January, and will consider the idea of excluding independent voters from the party's primaries. ...and more »  

Rhode Island’s governor has selected Chevron Energy Solutions to install and operate six wind turbines on public land in the state. The Providence (RI) Journal reports that Governor Donald Carcieri made the announcement about the San Francisco-based clean energy company getting the contract at a Narragansett Town Council meeting: “Chevron is a proven leader in renewable energy [...]  

A reader passes along word that Steve Laffey, the rock-ribbed conservative former mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 2006, is rethinking his decision to not run for governor. It's a heavily-Democratic state, but there's likely to be a three-way race, with Lincoln Chafee -- you remember him, he was the Republican Senator who never voted with Republicans, who the National Republican Senatorial Committee...  

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - Lincoln Chafee is officially entering the Rhode Island governor's race. Chafee, a former Republican senator who had earlier formed an exploratory campaign to start fundraising for the race, is running as an independent to succeed ...  

WARWICK — Promising to chart a “New Way Forward” for Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee will kick off his Independent candidacy for governor next Monday. Chafee, a former U.S. Senator and Warwick mayor, renounced his membership in the Republican ...  

THE LAST TIME LINCOLN CHAFEE entered a political race, in the fall of 2006, he lost to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. Now Chafee wants to succeed Gov. Donald L. Carcieri in the Statehouse. WARWICK – After a series of false starts, former U.S ...  

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --The two Democrats running for governor have canceled plans to participate in a Jan.8 candidate forum organized by a group called the Rhode Island Voter Coalition. The candidates -- Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch and General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio -- changed their minds about ...  

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) Compares GOP opposition to ObamaCARE to Nazis, the KKK - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Democrat, Rhode Island, appeared on CSPAN2 today, debating of course, ObamaCARE. In describing Republican opposition to the ...