EG A Red Town? These Progressives May Disagree
Considered by many around the state to be a Republican hotbed, it turns out East Greenwich attracts avowed liberals too.
Mitt Romney may have lost Rhode Island to Barack Obama by a two to one margin, but not in East Greenwich, where he won 3,649 to 3,535, one of only three towns in the state to go Romney. (The other two? Scituate and West Greenwich.) EG also elected (with the help of West Greenwich) the only new Republican state legislator in Rhode Island – Anthony Giarrusso, our new Dist. 30 representative – in a year that saw many state GOP candidate losses. Add to that the re-elected all-GOP Town Council, a GOP majority on the School Committee (4 GOP, 2 Democrats, 1 independent), and a Republican Town Moderator, and it certainly looks like East Greenwich is about as red a town as you can get in blue Rhode Island. So it's interesting to note that some of…
KK
11:10 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
I am glad to see that in a community like East Greenwich (wealthy) that there were 3, 535 voters who chose to vote for Obama. I was afraid it would be a lot more lopsided toward the gop. What does it matter what your party is if you are a member of the school committe or town council? Do they follow a party line? I think they should all be independents. more ›