by J.H. Snider and Beverly Clay | Oct 31, 2014 | Blog
On Monday, October 27, RenewRI, the coalition leading the yes campaign on the constitutional convention referendum in Rhode Island, filed a complaint with the Rhode Island Board of Elections concerning the campaign finance disclosures of The Coalition for Responsible...
by J.H. Snider and Beverly Clay | Oct 29, 2014 | Blog
In seemingly every daily newspaper in Rhode Island (e.g., see Providence Journal, GoLocalProv, Valley Breeze, IndependentRI.com, and Warwick Beacon; for links, go to Rhode Island’ConCon.info’s op-ed page), the Rhode Island ACLU’s Steve Brown has...
by J.H. Snider and Beverly Clay | Oct 11, 2014 | Blog
In early October, Rhode Island’s Secretary of State mailed at taxpayer expense to hundreds of thousands of registered voters a printed copy of the 2014 Voter Information Handbook. The Handbook includes what is supposed to be an impartial explanation of all the...
by J.H. Snider and Beverly Clay | Sep 4, 2014 | Blog
On August 26, 2014, the Commission met for the fifth and last time. The purpose of the meeting was to approve the Commission’s Report, which it did (well, sort of). The Commission Report was publicly released on September 3—eight days after the wording had...
by J.H. Snider and Beverly Clay | Aug 2, 2014 | Blog
On July 29, 2014, one day before its report was due, the General Assembly’s legislative leaders appointed the final two members of the Bi-Partisan Preparatory Commission to Assemble Information on Constitutional Convention Questions. Two-thirds of the Commission...