Post by Logan on May 8, 2016 1:48:01 GMT -6
"The political condition of Rhode Island is notorious, acknowledged and it is shameful."
No, that's not a tweet stemming from last week's abrupt resignation of House Finance Chairman Raymond E. Gallison Jr. amid a federal probe. Rather, that was the lead of a February 1905 McClure's Magazine article by the great muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens.
Gallison, D-Bristol, was not only chairman of the powerful committee that writes the state budget, he was also grand marshal of Bristol's famous Fourth of July parade. But now we're all waiting to see if Gallison ends up as grand marshal of a parade of Rhode Island political shame that stretches back more than a century.
Then, as now, Rhode Islanders debated whether the smallest state has any bigger problem with corruption than anywhere else.
"The Rhode Islander resents the interest of his neighbors," Steffens wrote. "'Our evils are our troubles,' he says ... 'We are no worse than others. We are better than some. We want to set things right, but can't. Conditions are peculiar.'"
Read more: www.providencejournal.com/news/20160507/edward-fitzpatrick-time-to-stop-ris-long-shameful-parade-of-corruption
No, that's not a tweet stemming from last week's abrupt resignation of House Finance Chairman Raymond E. Gallison Jr. amid a federal probe. Rather, that was the lead of a February 1905 McClure's Magazine article by the great muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens.
Gallison, D-Bristol, was not only chairman of the powerful committee that writes the state budget, he was also grand marshal of Bristol's famous Fourth of July parade. But now we're all waiting to see if Gallison ends up as grand marshal of a parade of Rhode Island political shame that stretches back more than a century.
Then, as now, Rhode Islanders debated whether the smallest state has any bigger problem with corruption than anywhere else.
"The Rhode Islander resents the interest of his neighbors," Steffens wrote. "'Our evils are our troubles,' he says ... 'We are no worse than others. We are better than some. We want to set things right, but can't. Conditions are peculiar.'"
Read more: www.providencejournal.com/news/20160507/edward-fitzpatrick-time-to-stop-ris-long-shameful-parade-of-corruption