I have warned you that former Providence Mayor and current Congressman David Ciciline is one of the most effective Mediscare mongers.
In his 2010 run for Congress, during which he lied about the abysmal finances of Providence in order to get elected, Cicilline ran a bus tour of Senior Citizen centers in which he claimed Seniors would not get their checks if Republicans took over.
Now Cicilline is at it again with a stunt in which he brought senior citizens carrying bags of empty pill bottles to the campaign offices of Brendan Doherty, Cicilline sends seniors to Doherty camp:
The scene quickly became campaign theater as the group packed the small hallway in front of the campaign office. As the seniors were about to leave, Doherty’s campaign members handed out information, saying that Cicilline lied to them on Doherty’s stance.
“This is to be expected,” added Doherty. “This is the way Congressman Cicilline operated in 2010. He actually lied in 2010.
Cicilline says the pill bottle drop-off orchestrated by his campaign was not a gimmick.
“Protecting seniors from increased cost of prescription drugs, providing them with free preventative exams, that’s not a gimmick,” he said. “I think they have a right to do anything they can to bring attention to the issue.”
Cicilline also is playing the War on Women card, but Doherty is fighting back:
Republican congressional candidate Brendan Doherty on Thursday hit back against accusations that he isn’t a strong supporter of women by attacking incumbent Democratic Rep. David Cicilline for his past as a defense attorney who represented criminals accused of hurting women.
Doherty, former head of the state police, held a news conference at a boxing gym to declare that ‘‘the gloves are off’’ in his race against Cicilline, who was a criminal defense lawyer before going into politics full time in 2002.
‘‘I put bad people in jail. He tries to keep ‘em out. That’s the difference between me and David Cicilline,’’ he said.
In this overwhelmingly Democratic district (my home district), Cicilline’s tactics are effective. The most recent polling has Cicilline up by six points.
But make no mistake, this is winnable race against a truly horrible Mediscare monger, someone on the level of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
If Cicilline wins a second term, and evades responsibility for the Providence fiscal mess, he likely will be Congressman for life.
Please donate to Doherty today.
Update — Readers should not consider Cicilline to be a lock, by any means. As this discussion indicates, this is anyone’s race. Doherty is just about to unleash the ads against Cicilline so the numbers could move:
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Despite the corruption and incompetence displayed by Cicillini, the really badly dumbed down RI electorate will probably re-elect him just like they did repeatedly for his predecessor Patches.
Being a conservative in RI is not a good place to be in and that is why I left some twenty-two years ago with no regrets.
The land of the “Independent Man” has become the home of the hopeless…
Living as a conservative in California, I find myself wanting to make contributions to races in which my contributions have a reasonable chance of making a difference. This does not seem like one of them.
This is a winnable race for Doherty. He’s about to unleash 500k in ads. Cicilline is up only 6 (which sounds high to me) in a D+15 District. The race has moved to lean Democrat, but it’s hardly a lost cause for Doherty, http://blogs.wpri.com/2012/10/05/cicillines-chances-of-winning-upgraded-by-2-more-d-c-outlets/
This is a race where money for Doherty could help a lot.
OK. If you say so I will send a contribution. Thanks for the follow-up.
Cicilline is only pulling 44% despite huge name recognition. There’s still 10% undecided. While Doherty is as not well recognized by name, he’s got a solid record as out former State Police chief. Meanwhile, Cicilline has recently been rocking a 15% approval rating, which is largely attributable to the perception that he’s dirty. So, we have a clean cop versus a former mob lawyer turned career politician with a record of lying.
This is a very winnable race. Send Doherty some cash today! I did.
Done. Thanks.