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RenewRI sticker on front page of Providence Journal.
October 22, 2014
The Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity has distributed four short videos that are excerpts from a conference it held and that are more social media than mass advertising in nature.
October 9, 2014
The Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity has put out a video with six accompanying print ads. These were first seen on October 9, 2014. Here is a link to the video:
Here is a link to the website with the print ads:
http://www.rifreedom.org/YesConCon/
October 8, 2014
RenewRI’s two vote yes signs, one each facing North and South, on Route 95. The no and yes campaign signs went up within a few days of each other and were first reported to RhodeIslandConCon.info on October 8.
Vote No Campaign
the November 3-4, 2o14
Customized robocalls were widely used.
Less visibly, the unions who were opposed to convening a convention sent relevant communications to their members. The Coalition for Responsible Government included some 30-40 Rhode Island unions. Disclosures for expenditures for such communications were exempt from campaign finance laws.
Communications included George H. Nee’s op-ed in the Providence Journal and the anti-con-con video (see Oct. 30 below) produced by The Coalition for Responsible Government. The home page of Rhode Island Council 94, AFSCME, AFL-CIO featured the Reject Question 3 video at the top of its home page on November 4, 2014. Rhode Island Council 94, AFSCME, part of the AFL-CIO, describes itself as “Rhode Island’s largest public employee union representing more than 10,000 State, City, Town, and School Department employees.” The top news item on the AFSCME website was “Group opposing constitutional convention releases video warning of threat to civil rights.”
November 1, 2014
Citizens for Responsible Government mailer to Rhode Island registered voters. The mailer was generally received on the Saturday before the Nov. 4, 2014 election.
October 31, 2014
Newspaper ad.
October 31, 2014
Institute for Labor Studies and Research, LaborVisionTV1
Discussion of Question #3, from 15:30 to 28:35.
Labor Vision TV – NO on Ballot Initiative Three – No RI Constitutional Convention.
From 1:30 to 10:40 (same interviewee but different points).
October 30, 2014
The Rhode Island Board of Elections ruled that the video ad released on September 28, 2014 violated Rhode Island’s campaign finance disclosure laws, and it was taken down. The following ad with the required disclosure at the end was substituted in its place.
October 27, 2014
Woonsocket Teachers’ Union social media. Note: communications to organization members don’t require campaign finance disclosures.
October 18, 2014
Citizens for Responsible Government handout. Distributed to a Latino Public Radio political barbecue event on October 18, 2014.
October 8, 2014
The Coalition for Responsible Government’s two vote no signs, one each facing North and South, on Route 95. The no and yes campaign signs went up within a few days of each other and were first reported to RhodeIslandConCon.info on October 8.
September 28, 2014
Citizens for Responsible Government TV ad. It closely follows the model for the successful attack ad used in Connecticut during 2008. A big difference is that that TV/radio campaign began a week before the election. This one is coming out more than a month before.
September 22, 2014
These are the palm cards Citizens for Responsible Government has handed out. The first one was spotted at a public festival near Brown University on Sunday, September 22, 2014.
May 18, 2014
Institute for Labor Studies and Research, LaborVisionTV1
Discussion of Question #3. From 20:43 to 30:00.
Labor Vision TV RI Rep Jack Carnevale, Oppose RI Con Convention.
March 26, 2014
Institute for Labor Studies and Research, LaborVisionTV1
Discussion of Question #3. From 1:15 to 20:48. Paula Hodges heads government relations for Planned Parenthood Rhode Island and is former political director for Missouri NEA (she left Planned Parenthood a few months after this interview).
Labor Vision TV – Legislative Issues Paula Hodges Hosted by Jim Parisi.