Apathy strikes again! No need to complain.....who cares, right?

Wasting taxpayers money is what they do best. We have money for a production crew, but none for bridge maintenance.

God exists.

The Democrats voted him in at the DNC.

It was on tv.

Hallelujah, Amen!

RI's governor ("Independent" or otherwise) should not be using state resources to stump for Mr. Obama.
Obviously.

Perhaps state resouces now should be used to do something equal for Mr. Romney? Yeah...right.

"When even one American, who has done nothing wrong, is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril." Harry S. Truman

America is Rome-John Lennon

Rene-At least Truman had some credentials and credibility. Please tell the Patch readers about your experience and credentials in leading the second largest law enforcement agency in the state of Rhode Island. Were you in the law enforcemnet field before being named exexutive high sheriff? Did you graduate from the FBI Academy? Do you posess a masters degree in criminal justice?

Inquiring minds would love to know.

Two questions:

First:
Is this an infraction of RI law? If so - cite the statute.

Second:
Why should we care what a partisan hack has to say?
(Here, online - or at the DNC.)

It's not as if anyone outside RI will ever hear us.

God exists.
The Democrats voted Him in at the DNC.
It was on tv.
God belongs in politics.
The Democrats voted on it.
It was on tv.
Hallelujah, Amen!

BristolRI02809 comes out to play
In, oh, the most predictable way.
(Oh yes he does).
So there’s a few more things
we need to say.

US Median income is at its lowest level since 1995. Oh yes it is.

Mr. Obama said (nomination acceptance speech) that he will “strengthen Medicare” by reducing health care costs.

But Mr. Obama has driven health care costs up to their highest levels ever. Oh yes he has. So it doesn’t seem that Mr. Obama’s plan will work to “strengthen Medicare”. Oh no it doesn’t.

The Democrats justify killing unborn babies for 3 reasons:
1. Birth control
2. the health of the mother
3. pregnancy resulting from rape (but the Dems never offer any data on about how many pregnancies actually results from a rape & it’s SO not “pc” to ask for data on this issue.)

Maybe it’s time to consider a more evolved approach:
1. there are other methods of birth control
2. prudent medical decisions to protect the health of the mother
3. stop & deter all those rapists

Mr. Fox wants to get married NOW. That's all, folks.

BristolRI02809 is much more interesting when he writes his fun facts about his favorite local Democrats “playing in the sandbox” with the “big boys” & “David” and “Kenny” & his “times” & favors and how state jobs are handed out…

I'm confused. You post that you saw the video on YouTube, right? Did the video appear on the states site as well?

If not, how does posting a video on YouTube utilize RI state resources? Certainly posting a link to the official state site doesn't use any RI state resources.

I looked on YouTube and couldn't find the video in question. A direct link would be helpful to your cause.

Has Joe Sousa been humbled?

John-The last time Joe Sousa was humbled was when he was under the supervision of the employees that Rene Lafayette formerly was in charge of.

...and right after this commercial we'll determine if you are the father

Though I abhor Chaffee and would not vote for him ever. This story is very misleading. First off the video was posted by Chaffee himself. There is no video or link to the video in question or reference to supporting Obama on the State www.gov.ri.gov site. Yes it would be a violation of election laws to use the State site for that. However this does not exist that I can find on the site.

To the addresses at the end of the Chaffee video. He list the State site and his twitter account. Nothing wrong there at all. That is not using Taxpayer monies to put the name of a website to visit on your own private video, so unless you have evidence that tax money was used to actually produce the video Rene? You are incorrect.

If you dislike Chaffee as much as I do, I assume you think him to be a lowlife politions in every sense of the word as I do. This is not a gotcha moment or even an I wonder is it was taxpayer funded. It is silly and like somelse said a petty attempt to find something that obviously is not there. Get better information against him on reasons to not have 34% elect this clown again, because this is not it, in my opinion.

Folks:
This is another friendly reminder to avoid engaging in name-calling, and to please stay on topic.
Thanks.

Jack-You spend 99.9% of your life on the internet-do a little bit of research on Rene Lafayette. He was a 4 term state rep who sucked up to Bruce Sundlun and Sundlun appointed him Executive High Sheriff when he had absolutely zero law enforcement experience, law enforcement credentials, or law enforcemement education. But being the suck up that he was, Sundlun put him in charge of a state wide law enforcement agency with almost 200 law enforcement officers. Now that he has lost all his political juice, he goes on the Patch to start bashing the democrats-the same democrats that gave him his political plum job in the first place.

So what do you think Jack-where is this guy Lafayette's credibility?

Well look who just arrived on the scene-Joe Sousa, candidate for Tiverton Town Council, and someone who must surely be familiar with Executive High Sheriff Rene Lafayette.

So tell us Mr. Sousa, what are your feelings on the column written by Sheriff Lafayette? As a candidate for public office and frequent commenter on this blog, surely you must have an opinion on his column.

Hi all. I did some digging into this story and Rene's complaint got the video taken down! Here's my story: http://patch.com/A-xLz8

One Term just slapping these tolls on us is a reason to dump him

I do not believe the commentary here.

The YouTube video Was published From the state website. It was a partisan piece created and published using our tax dollars.

In any other state in the union this is ILLEGAL. The fact that it ended up on YouTube is irrelevant. The use of Rhode Island government resources to get it there is wrong.

The people that are trying to justify these immoral and illegal acts is an example of what is primarily wrong with this state.

Not only do we allow this sleazy conduct by our politicians, we also defend their corruption and re-elect them.

This state is doomed!

Joe The Plumber-If you dislike things so much here in Rhode Island, here's some advice for you: Take your monkey wrenches and toilet plunger and move the h&*l out-we don't need you and your whining here.

Sorry JoeThePlumber, but wrong is wrong, and false accusations accomplish nothing more than ruining the credibility of the mission to dump this guy. Told this guy to his face I would not vote for him for dog cathcher at Bristol Stop n Shop when he was running. At least the smile left his face when I said it. But this Rene thing is moot, he should have investigated first before accusing in my opinion.

Read this link Elizabeth Mcnamara posted.

http://eastgreenwich.patch.com/articles/video-promoting-chafee-s-dnc-speech-removed-from-youtube-after-complaint.

“Christine Hunsinger, Chafee's spokeswoman, said Thursday the video was made by James Alvarez, who works in the governor's communications office.
He "volunteered to do it on his own time and used his own computer," Hunsinger said. "He was excited that the governor was giving a speech at the convention."
She said Alvarez was not asked to make a video promoting the speech and that "no state resources went into the making of the video."

"The governor is the ambassdor of Rhode Island," Hunsinger said, explaining why the office did not think it was wrong to include the url originally. But, she said, the complaint motivated them to ask that it not be included in the updated video.
A link to the video was included in an email sent out Aug. 30 announcing Chafee's speech. The address used to send the email was private: chafeednc2012@gmail.com. Hunsinger said it was sent out by the Chafee campaign.”

Jack Baillargeron blabbered:

"The ECONOMY is the issue, Nationally and State Wide period. Anyone who does not see that, has their head in the sand and either are DEM supporters or delusional in my opinion."

So Jack, what about the millions of women who don't want Romney interfering with their bodies and want to continue to have the right to choose?

And what about the millions of African-Americans who don't want to go back to the Romney days of segregated restaurants, public transportation, etc.?

And what about the union members (of which you were one), who would find their ranks decimated by Romney, and would be forced into slave labor jobs with no union representation?

Take your head out of your you-know-what Jack-it's WAY more than all about the economy-PERIOD. No wonder everyone on this blog ridicules you.

Hey, I posted the state song "Rhode Island is for me" and it was deleted by the editor / moderator. The song is very lovely. The community deserves a forum where all comments are welcome (except for profanity). This web site is obviously hosted and run by old trouts. I am sure this comment will be deleted because I name called, one of the above posts used the word "crazy " to describe someone. It is still there. The criteria for deleting posts should be objective not subjective, otherwise the discussion is not valuable or productive, not fair or democratic. I wonder if they will look up my IP address - oh no will I end up on some kind of list (sarcastic). Just saying...................

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. The flag they served under now carries them home. May God bless the memory of these men who laid down their lives for us all. May God watch over your families and all who love them.

And may God bless these United States of America.”

President Obama
(speaking of those 4 Americans who were killed in Libya)

I agree this looks like a clear violation, but the sad fact is regardless of right or wrong, so many people might not have noticed any of this. But this blog and related attention have resulted in I'm sure more than a few checking out Governor gump's statement. Personally, the less I hear from him, the better.

“Battleground”… Las Vegas.

“Obama, who opted to push ahead with his battleground-state swing less than 24 hours after the deadly attack, used a somber tone to address his boisterous supporters, waving off cheers from members of the crowd at the top of his remarks.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/president-obama-says-libya-attack-a-reminder-of-us-as-indispensable-power/

Sheldon Adelson, Romney's uber-billionaire casino owner and financial backer, pledged to give Romney $100 million -- or "whatever it takes" -- to defeat Obama.

Do you know why???

As Bill Clinton reminded us, sometimes the answer is as simple as arithmetic. So let's do the math:

According to a new report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Adelson will get $2 billion in tax savings from Romney in return for his support. And it will be paid for by every taxpayer reading this blog, so pass the word QUICKLY.

If Obama wins, everyone pays their fair share of taxes...including Mr. Adelson!

Tell me...
WHICH ONE IS MORE FAIR FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES?
WHICH ONE CAN YOU AFFORD?

Americans cannot afford to live the Romney-Ryan lifestyle without having the same personal wealth.

We can DREAM...but we know that it's not reality. Romney is still dreaming.

I find it distasteful that many of the Patch "bloggers" are nothing more than business professionals (consultants, life coaches, lawyers, et al) using their respective columns to either promote their own businesses or advance certain political agendas, all under the guise of a local yokel columnist...

and as a result, I find myself tuning out most of the blog entries here, with the true local blog columnists (housewives, students, et al) getting overlooked...

c'mon Patch, let's label these "blogs" what they truly are - op-ed columns with a very specific agenda or endgame...

Original Local Yokel here. Stop besmirching my name.

Carry on.

Interesting points. May we know more about your proposal and to how it should work?

It might be difficult to find bloggers who have no agenda.

As to those you call “housewife” bloggers, there’s a terminology problem there because even uber-liberal little Rhody has yet to pass a statute allowing anyone to marry a house.

Believe it or not, “housewives” who blog are actually very talented and knowledgeable individuals who deserve to have a voice even if the topic does not interest you.

Many of the so-called “housewives” are also “business professionals”, believe it or not.

Would actual “local yokels” have to identify themselves as such?

How “local” is the yokel required to be to count as truly “local” in the yokel department?

Should those posting comments be required to reveal their “op-ed” biases as well?

Or do we continue to assume that the readers are smart enough to figure it out?

Next, please get the ProJo to make changes similar to the ones you suggest for the Patch because the ProJo's biases are showing lately, to a fault.

Romney is coming unglued and we're seeing inside him. Americans don't like what they see. He's not a leader. He's not that smart. He's a little man bent on becoming president and that just isn't good enough.

Americans wanted Obama. They got him. He's not perfect. But he's not Romney. We'll have him again because Obama has BECOME a GREAT President.

Romney does not have that ability and his ego stands in the way of changing. Sorry, Mitt, you don't get my vote.

Unglued huh?

Nationally, Real Clear Politics has Obama ahead by only three points (average of all polls).

That is far from unglued. That is pretty much a dead heat.

Except here in Rhode Island, the state that is dead last in everything. Here in the Democratic wasteland we have created, Obama will win by a landslide.

How did that work for us in the last four years?

Losers.

Seems to be a dead heat but the economy and fuel prices will push people away from Obama . The answers provided by Romney in the debates will make Obama look like a fool. We are seeing the cause and effect of the ultra liberal agenda in America. The promise of a new beginning has become the age of Tax and Spend. The destruction of our medical system and lack of good jobs will tear down Obama. He had his chance with the fist two years wasted as our country fell deeper it to recession . If he had cut taxes and regulations on drilling we would have came out of it. By this time in Reagon's Administration he had created over seven million jobs and cut the size of Government considerably . This amateur should be put out of office .

Gov. Romney could stand at the podium and speak in tongues and dribble for an hour and Joe and I have already declared him the debate winner. Therefore, there is no need for anyone to watch.

The Democrats are coming unglued. Look no further than Chicago for proof. Even the unions are turning against them. Teachers there are making an average of $76,000 before benefits and were just offered pay increases that would increase that by 16% and they still turned it down. Now Rahm, Obama's former chief of staff, is taking them to court. Unions are supposed to be the Democrats bread and butter.

Where is all the "Hope" and "Change" we were promised? It sure feels like more of the same to me.

UNGLUED? How about sticking a TOLL on every citizen in Newport county And The head of the Senate FROM NEWPORT does it to them, Take the economy of Aquidneck island and start an IV line, it will at less propone the slow death till some can get out of state and find new jobs

Hey Rene,

You really don't understand this whole Internet machine thingy here now do you?

Having a URL chyron at the end of a video posted to YouTube wasted exactly zero taxpayer dollars and is a clear violation of absolutely nothing at all.

Get a grip dude.

Darn, I was hoping to read the comments without having the OldTownie weighing in...too much msnbc kool aid for that hippie.