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Conservative wing of RI GOP raffling AR-15 to raise money for 2022 campaigns Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal © Rhode Island Republican Conservative Caucus A portion of the ticket for a gun raffle being sponsored by Rhode Island's Republican Conservative Caucus. PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island's Republican Conservative Caucus is raffling guns —  including an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle — to raise money to try to win more GOP seats in the state legislature. Second prize in the March 20 drawing is described as "a Mossberg .12Ga Pump action shotgun."  The Conservativ...

Second prize in the March 20 drawing is described as "a Mossberg .12Ga Pump action shotgun."  The Conservative Caucus — motto: "Ocean State Culture, Done Right" — has launched the raffle at a time when gun control is gaining ground at the Rhode Island State House. The single largest obstacle to past action on these types of bills was then-House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, a Cranston Democrat with a consistent "A'' rating from the NRA, who lost his bid for reelection in November. Key members of new House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi's leadership team have "F'' rankings from the NRA. ...

PROVIDENCE — House Republican Leader Blake Filippi is seeking to revive his lawsuit challenging the way the Rhode Island legislature hires and fires and spends $46 million-a-year.  He is now suing the Democratic leaders of the General Assembly, his Republican Senate counterpart, Dennis Algiere, and others - including new JCLS executive director Henry Kinch -  "individually and in [their] official capacity."  Filippi, the Block Island Republican who leads the 10-member Republican bloc in the 75-member House, is seeking unspecified "monetary damages." He is also asking the court t...

The proposed contract has been a lightning rod since Gov. Gina Raimondo, who is on the brink of quitting mid-term for a Cabinet post in the Biden administration, quietly negotiated and then pushed the no-bid IGT deal at the end of the 2019 legislative session. Several key provisions remain largely unchanged in the bill co-sponsored by Shekarchi,  the new House speaker,  Blazejewski, the majority leader, and House Finance Chairman Marvin Abney, including a jobs guarantee that advocates argue more than compensates for the relatively high price tag. The legislation commits the IGT-led partn...

During the same interview, Rep. Christopher Blazejewski, the incoming House majority leader, said it’s important that Providence doesn’t “give up on its public schools,” adding that the turnaround plan is supposed to transform the existing Providence schools, not just “bring in more charters.” Although thousands of parents are on a waitlist for charter schools, there was considerable opposition last month to the proposed expansion of Achievement First, which runs a network of charters in Providence.  Achievement First received permission to expand and a Boston-based charter schoo...