LETTERS

Targeting Buddy Cianci

Posted 10/2/14

To the Editor:

The campaign strategy of demonizing former Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci by Democrat Jorge Elorza will backfire.

In the first forum of the final contenders for mayor, Jorge …

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LETTERS

Targeting Buddy Cianci

Posted

To the Editor:

The campaign strategy of demonizing former Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci by Democrat Jorge Elorza will backfire.

In the first forum of the final contenders for mayor, Jorge Elorza immediately attacked Buddy Cianci and held on to the assault as if he where holding on to the beam of an open skyscraper.

With more baggage than one would find on the carousal at Green Airport, Providence voters are well aware of Buddy’s past mistakes.

Simultaneously, they are aware of his great achievements.

Seemingly, Elorza is preoccupied with redundantly reviewing Cianci’s fall from grace while never explaining why he might be qualified to run our capital city. Elorza’s experience as an auditor for Price Waterhouse, his teaching at Roger Williams University, and his presiding as a housing court judge must be somehow presented as a basis for choosing him to administrate a city government.

Therein one will find the reason for his tactics. Even his detractors must admit that Buddy Cianci knows how to run a city. He knows how to dream big and see those aspirations come to fruition. He knows how to address the woes of Providence on the day he is sworn in. Alas, Mr. Eloraza cannot justify himself as having the same level of gravitas as Buddy. Thus, his guttural attacks are an indication of inadequate public resume in comparison to Cianci’s. Furthermore, his actions demonstrate a fear that the former mayor’s known administrative adroitness will mean more to the voters than his past mistakes.

Christopher M. Curran

West Warwick

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  • ronruggieri

    I think the Providence Journal - after selling its soul again to the Money-God- is itself guilty of hubris in over-vilifying the former Providence Mayor Vincent " Buddy " Cianci . He is always on their pages the " twice convicted felon ". The people I know - influenced by Judeo-Christian morality- also believe deeply in the power of redemption. Just how good are our law-abiding , main stream establishment politicians - all those Democratic and Republican pillars of the moral order- how good are THEY at defending the interests of common working-middle class people ? Are bought and sold judges on a higher moral plane than convicted capitalist swindlers ? Mr. Harrop, for example, talks like a disciple of Ayn Rand. A freeze on taxes- in the interest of the little people I presume ? Do ANY of the candidates, I ask, have a problem with the infamous ONE PERCENT ? Do they ever question the legitimacy of free market wealth ? Perhaps like a Julius Caesar " Buddy " Cianci will offer not much more than bread and circuses to the common people of Providence. But that is better than nothing. God bless him !

    Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Report this