Anyone who “claims” to care about electoral victory is a liar.
Democratic candidate for Governor of Rhode Island Frank T. Caprio–
You know, I’ve never asked President Obama for his endorsement, and what’s going here is really Washington insider politics at its worst. You have two former senators – Senator Chafee and former Senator Obama – who have behind the scenes tried to put, you know, together an endorsement for Senator Chafee. And who knows, maybe there’ll even be one coming, but I never asked for President Obama’s endorsement, uh, you know, he could take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I’m concerned.
The reality here is that Rhode Islanders are hurting. We have one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. We had one of the worst floods in the history of the United States a few months back, and President Obama didn’t even do a fly-over of Rhode Island like President Bush did when New Orleans had their problems. He ignored us and, now, he’s coming into Rhode Island and treating us like an ATM machine.
So what I’m saying to President Obama very clearly is, I’ll wear it as a badge of honor and a badge of courage that he doesn’t want to endorse me as a Democrat because I am a different kind of Democrat. I’m going to fight for big changes in the state. I’m going to fight for jobs every day. And this place could be such a great place. And we don’t need these Washington insider politics. It’s at its worst.
You know, he comes in here looking for big donations from Rhode Islanders when you know we’re hurting and we need jobs here. We need people who are really going to care about what’s going on Main Street here in Rhode Island. That’s the kind of governor I’m going to be. So, I thank the people of Rhode Island for all the support they’ve given me up to this point and, now, we’ve got to close this deal over the next week and we’re going to bring the state back.
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see no problem with the president not endorsing the Democrat, but excoriate those that won’t vote straight Dem.
No hypocrisy there, eh?
He was undecided but after Caprio’s statement, he’s voting for him.
There will be a wave of pols shouting “Shove it” from every rooftop.
against the Tea Party but the Right Wing Obama “Democrats”.