The Providence Business News/Johnson & Wales executive poll is a weekly survey of 70 top business leaders throughout the state, representing small and large companies in a variety of industries and businesses.
A couple of issues continue to resurface, notably a container port at Quonset Point and a new effort to win approval for a Narragansett Indian-run gambling casino, presumbaly in West Warwick.
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QUESTION: Do you favor building a container port at Quonset Point?
Yes: 60%
No: 20%
Don’t know: 20%
QUESTION: Do you favor approving a Narragansett Indian-run casino, whether in West Warwick or some other part of the state?
Yes: 26.6%
No: 66.6%
Don’t know: 6.8%
QUESTION: Of the following potential gubernatorial candidates (Democrats, Republicans and Independents), whom do you favor?:
Scott Avedisian: 5%
Businessman James Bennett: 11%
URI President Robert L. Carothers: 5%
Providence Mayor Vincent Cianci: 0%
Director of Human Service Christine Ferguson: 5%
Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty: 16%
Senate Majority Leader William Irons: 11%
Former Lt. Gov. Bernard Jackvony: 5%
Former Atty. Gen. Jeffrey Pine: 11%
House Finance Chairman Antonio Pires: 0%
Congressman Robert Weygand: 5%
Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse: 11%
Myrth York: 0%
None of the Above: 15%
All questions are chosen exclusively by the editor of the Providence Business News
