For U.S. District 1: David N. Cicilline

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Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, a Democrat, has been a responsible, business-friendly leader. He has handled himself well while wrestling with numerous fiscal and governing challenges, including out-of-control pension liabilities, as well as the local effects of the state budget mess and the national recession. We are disturbed by his acceptance of an unapproved pay

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Really, I am a little disturbed that a publication that supposedly represents the business community would support someone who is essentially a socialist. Nothing against Cicciline personally, but to think he is going to do anything but be a supporter of most anything Obama and the Washington left put forth would be dim-witted.

  2. You must be endorsing a different Mr. Cicciline than I am familiar with. I find him too willing to bend to the unions. He has not done anything to solve the providence pension crisis. Loughlin expouses interests that match with small business. His resume would suggest that he will remember business. There is nothing in Cicciline’s history that make me think the same of him.

  4. Really?? PBN?? Are you kidding me?! I find it laughable, and clearly a decision based purely on partisan leanings, for a so-called business-oriented publication to endorse a candidate who has zero interest in helping grow small businesses and encouraging medium and larger businesses to grow within the Ocean State. Methinks you’ve been watching that ad of Cicciline walking around a factory he’s never even been to before campaign season.

    I also find it curious that when I call to discuss potential news stories of new small businesses, the response I get is, “Oh, well, we don’t cover most of them because so many fail.” Oh REALLY? Gee, I wonder why the City of Providence is laughable compared to its New England rivals. This is why I know this is an unethical, shameful and as journalists, entirely reprehensible decision that shows PBN is just as much a part of the old guard as Cicciline is.

    Prove me wrong. Show me numbers that demonstrate job growth, new businesses, tax breaks for corporations. And no, I’m not interested in how many artists’ galleries have been created thanks to just one more member of Rhode Island’s corrupt and reckless political elite.

    Disgusting.

  5. Remember this is same David Cicilline that the PBN endorsed before the last election stating,

    Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, a Democrat, has been a responsible, business-friendly leader. He has handled himself well while wrestling with numerous fiscal and governing challenges, including out-of-control pension liabilities, as well as the local effects of the state budget mess and the national recession.

    This is why unbiased newspaper’s and media outlets shouldn’t give endorsements. It will come to bite them in the ass.