Regarding Rhode Island [View All]

[Stinky The Clown]

Frank Caprio, the Democrat running for governor, said this on a live radio interview today that Obama can take his endorsement and shove it. Obama did not endorse him. Obama, it is being reported, would be happy with either Caprio or one of his two opponents, former Republican senator, Lincoln Chaffee.


Here is ABC's story on the matter:

Rhode Island Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate: President Obama 'Can Take His Endorsement and Shove It'

This morning on WPRO Radio Providence, Democratic Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio, whom President Obama has not endorsed, lashed out.

“I never asked President Obama for his endorsement and what’s going on here is really Washington insider politics at its worst,” Caprio said. “He can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I am concerned.”

Deferring to his friendship with former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the former Republican senator currently an independent gubernatorial candidate who endorsed the president in 2008, the president has not endorsed Caprio.

Recent polls indicate that Caprio and Chafee are in a tight race. According to the Providence Journal, Caprio was unaware that the president would not be endorsing him until a reporter told his campaign the news over the weekend.

Please read the two remaining paragraphs at this link: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/10/rhode-island-democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-president-obama-can-take-his-endorsement-and-shove-i.html

If there is more to tbis story, and there could well be, I don't know it.

If, however, the endorsement is simply being withheld (a la mainstream Dems against Ned Lamont, next door in CT a few years ago) it is a sorry performance.

Does anyone know the whole story . . . . or IS this the whole story?


Caprio and Chafee on October 14 (from CBS's site, which has the same story as ABC, above)





Maybe Democrats can just get to it and endorse Crist, too. Maybe Murkowski, while they're at it. I mean, she's gotta be better than that teabagger with the Miami Vice face. <----over the top sarcasm and disgust