I think here in RI people are pretty unhappy with the status quo.
Janice Ewing, in a conversation with Open Source, September 26, 2006.
Janice Ewing is a self-proclaimed “Little Old Rhody” living on the East side of Providence. We found her through contacts on our 2006 Election
Wiki.
My main concern is the fact that while the Republicans control the Senate, we can’t change anything. My son served in Iraq. He returned 7 months ago and said he wouldn’t reinlist, but they redeploying him. So obviously the war is uppermost in my mind.
Janice Ewing, in a conversation with Open Source, September 26, 2006.
I think [Chafee]‘s a fine gentleman. His father was a great governor and a pretty good Senator, but he’s a Republican. He got carried through on his father’s coattails, but he’s no John Chafee. I did vote for him the first go around, I didn’t think the Democrat was good enough. Whitehouse is. I was at a Whitehouse fundraiser and someone — I think it was Barbara Boxer? — said that Chafee votes with the Democrats 60% of the time. I want a candidate who will vote with the Democrats all the time.
Janice Ewing, in a conversation with Open Source,
September 26, 2006.
Rhode Island is a blue state, we’re usually the first into the Dem column in Presidential elections. We burned the Gaspee before the Revolutionary War even began. We’re going to follow in that tradition, we’re going to start the Revolution to take back our country now.
Janice Ewing, in a conversation with Open Source, September 26, 2006.
I’m an independent. I’d love to vote for Chafee.
He voted against the war, he voted against drilling in the ANWL.
But would he vote to impeach ? It’s a one issue election for me.
No one mentioned Chafee touting Bush’s line item veto power idea to a guy who never vetoed a spending bill ,certainly an weak gesture,and according to Reagan’s former AssistantAttorney General (on C Span) a -would be-further abdication of the Senate’s powers to Mr Bush .
What bothers me about the whole Chafee campaign is the superficiality of opposition research and lack of historical perspective. No one asked, for example, where Chafee was on 9/11. He told us in the “Warwick Beacon” in 2002 in an article by the editor John Howell. Before the Warwick Rotarians Chafee revealed that, as firefighters raced into collapsing buildings in NYC, Chafee in Washington reacted to an evacuation of Senate Office Building by hopping into his car and driving to the “black section of D.C.” on the assumption that terrorists would not bomb the ghetto. While the rest of us watched in horror, Chafee took action: he fled. Sometimes a single act reveals character. For me Chafee is a hypocrite and a coward. I just wish RI Democrats were more on alert as to the character of their opponent.