Rhode Island Democratic Party

Rhode Island Democratic Party
Chairperson Joseph McNamara
Headquarters Warwick, RI
Ideology Modern liberalism
Progressivism
Centrism
Social liberalism
Political position Center-left
National affiliation Democratic Party
Colors Blue
Seats in the Upper House
32 / 38
Seats in the Lower House
64 / 75
Website
www.ridemocrats.org

The Rhode Island Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Rhode Island. Joseph McNamara is the chairman of the Party. For the past five decades, the Democratic Party has dominated politics in Rhode Island. The article further discusses the Democratic Party's dominance in Rhode Island politics as well as the elected officials, party leadership and staff, past election results, legislation, and also issue stance.

Democratic Party dominance in Rhode Island

For nearly five decades, Rhode Island has been one of the nation's most solidly Democratic states. Since 1928, it has voted for the Republican presidential candidate only four times (Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, Richard Nixon in 1972 and Ronald Reagan in 1984) and it has elected only one Republican (former Governor John H. Chafee) to the U.S. Senate since 1934. Rhode Island also sent no Republicans to the U.S. House from 1940 until 1980, when one Republican and one Democrat were elected. Also in 1980, Rhode Island was one of only six states to favor Jimmy Carter. However, in 1984, Republican Edward DiPrete was elected governor and Ronald Reagan narrowly carried the state in the presidential election. In the 2000 presidential election, Democrat Al Gore won 61% of the popular vote.[1] Although, an analysis of Gallup polling data shows the Democratic advantage over the Republican Party in Rhode Island voters has plunged over the last two years.[2] The Democratic advantage over the Republican Party in Rhode Island slid from 37 percentage points in 2008 to 16 points this year, according to Gallup. Rhode Island has gone from being the most Democratic state in the country in 2008 to the 7th most Democratic now.[3]

Elected officials

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.

U.S. House of Representatives

Statewide offices

State Legislature

Party leadership and staff

The Rhode Island Democratic Party leadership as of 2018 is as follows.[4]

State committee officers

  • Chairman: Joseph McNamara
  • Vice Chairman: Rep. Grace Diaz
  • 2nd Vice Chairman: Hon. James Diossa, Mayor
  • 3rd Vice Chairman: Lisa Tomasso
  • Secretary: Rep. Arthur Corvese
  • Corresponding Secretary: Allene Maynard
  • Recording Secretary: presumed vacant[5]
  • Treasurer: Jeff Padwa
  • Assistant Treasurer: Marcia Reback

National Committee Persons

  • National Committeeman: Hon. Joseph R. Paolino, Jr.
  • National Committeewomen: Edna O'Neill Mattson

Staff

  • Executive Director: Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye
  • Communications Director: Ann S. Gooding
  • R.I. Dem Party Finance: Susann Della Rosa
  • Field Organizer: Michelle Arias

Previous election results

2016 General Election http://wpri.com/election-results/

President

Hillary Clinton (D) 227,062 54% vote

Donald Trump (R) 166,454 39% vote

Representative in Congress District 1

  • David N. Cicilline (Dem) 64%
  • Russell Taub (Rep.) 36%

Representative in Congress District 2

  • James R. Langevin (Dem) 58%
  • Rhue Reis (Rep) 31%

U.S. Senator

  • John F. Reed (D) 223,675 70.6%
  • Mark S. Zaccaria (R) 92,684 29.2%
  • Write-In 539 0.2%

Representative in Congress District 1

  • David N. Cicilline (D) 87,060 59.5%
  • Cormick B. Lynch (R) 58,877 40.2%
  • Write-In 416 0.3%

Representative in Congress District 2

  • James R. Langevin (D) 105,716 62.2%'
  • Rhue R. Reis (R) 63,844 37.6%
  • Write-In 344 0.2%

President

Senator in Congress

  • John F. Reed (Dem) 73.4%
  • Robert G. Tingle (Rep) 26.6%

Representative in Congress District 1

  • Patrick J. Kennedy (Dem) 68.6%
  • Jonathon P. Scott (Rep) 24.3%

Representative in Congress District 2

  • James R. Langevin (Dem) 70.1%
  • Mark S. Zaccaria (Rep) 29.9%

President

Representative in Congress District 1

  • Patrick J. Kennedy (Dem) 64.1%
  • David W. Rogers (Rep) 35.8%

Representative in Congress District 2

  • James R. Langevin (Dem) 74.5%
  • Arthur Chuck Barton III (Rep) 20.8%

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Issues

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

On August 1, 2017, Rhode Island Democratic Party Chairman Joseph M. McNamara issued the following statement regarding President Trump's plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals nationally, effective March 5, 2018:

"This is a nation built on the strength of its immigrants," said Chair McNamara. "Every sector of our economy, every part of our culture has benefited by welcoming folks from across the globe. Turning our backs now on the children and young people who have made America their home would be heartless and cruel, and it would cause unnecessary pain to families, neighborhoods and our economy," he said. "This is not who we are. I applaud the actions of Attorney General Kilmartin and our nation's Attorney Generals and our Democratic Congress in urging the President to preserve DACA."[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Rhode Island - Political parties". city-data.com.
  2. ↑ "Gallup: Democrats' dominance drops by half in Rhode Island". WPRI 12 Eyewitness News.
  3. ↑ Gallup, Inc. "Gallup.Com - Daily News, Polls, Public Opinion on Politics, Economy, Wellbeing, and World". gallup.com.
  4. ↑ "RI Democratic Party: Party Leadership and Staff". Rhode Island Democratic Party. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  5. ↑ @RIDemParty (September 10, 2018). "Tweet from RI Democratic Party". Twitter. Retrieved 10 September 2018. We are saddened to learn of the passing of Milton H. Bronstein, Recording Secretary to the RI Democratic State Committee. Milton was a stalwart Democrat, who championed the causes of union workers and helped make our party better in every conceivable way.
  6. ↑ https://www.ri.gov/election/results/general_election/
  7. ↑ "Rhode Island Board of Elections". ri.gov.
  8. ↑ http://ridemocrats.org/cms-assets/documents/
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