Heroes And Zeros

Rhode Island Rep. Patricia Morgan speaks out against the use of net metering for solar energy farms and the customers paying for interconnections to the grid from solar farms. She explains there two programs for the development of solar energy projects in RI. One is the Renewable Energy Program which has guardrails in efforts to keep rate increases under strict control. This program is still more expensive that natural gas energy but offers subsidies from the Federal government. This program is highlighted on the RI Office of Energy Resources website. See below. https://energy.ri.gov/renewable-energy/wind/renewable-energy-growth-program-reg-program Electric bills requires up to 76% of monthly bills go to the energy supplier. Net metering is restricted to a limited section of RI mostly non-profits and city programs. The destruction of forest lands for solar farms destroys natural habitats all for the sake of enriching developers. Rhode Island already has the second lowest carbon footprint so why the rush to destroy our environment to enrich others?

Rhode Island Democrat Rep. Alzate confirms what Rep. Morgan has found through unresponsive APRA requests to the DMV for distinctions of driver’s privilege cards for illegal aliens and that of legal citizens. DMV could not provide information on any safeguards in place to make sure those privilege cards not be used for voting. Rep. Alzate fully admits the purpose was to protect and hide information on those illegal aliens so ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) would not be able to locate the illegal aliens. What is the evidence she produces to justify the lack of distinction? A Twitter post on a forum she attended where someone tagged ICE. She is gleeful and happy that the DMV could not provide ANY information on safeguards.

Rhode Island Representative Patricia Morgan rightfully points out Article II, Section 1 of the RI Constitution addresses the age requirements to vote in elections and does not make distinctions between primary and general elections. Her citing of this provision (line 1) contrasts S 35 Sub A giving the rights of 17 year olds to vote if they achieve the age of 18 by the time of a general election. Please read this section of the RI Constitution for exactness of wording. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------ARTICLE II OF SUFFRAGE--------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 1. Persons entitled to vote. -- Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years or over who has had residence and home in this state for thirty days next preceding the time of voting, who has resided thirty days in the town or city from which such citizen desires to vote, and whose name shall be registered at least thirty days next preceding the time of voting as provided by law, shall have the right to vote for all offices to be elected and on all questions submitted to the electors, except that no person who has been lawfully adjudicated to be non compos mentis shall be permitted to vote. No felon shall be permitted to vote until completion of such felon's sentence, served or suspended, and of parole or probation regardless of a nolo contendere plea. Upon such completion, such person's right to vote shall be restored. The general assembly may provide by law for shorter state and local residence requirements to vote for electors for president and vice president of the United States.

Bob Chiaradio questions the intent of policy 1032 regarding rules of public comment and the content of the public comments. Bob suggests the Westerly school committee adopt rule followed by the Westerly town council of ten minutes of public comment on agenda items and five minutes for the open forum. In additional comments, he questions the real reason(s) for cash infusion by the town council and school committee to make up the gap needed to provide AstroTurf on a sports field in spite of voter’s opposition. Very little money was raised through fundraising efforts and now the town wants to deliver taxpayers dollars to make up for the incredible gap which could cover 2/3rds of the estimated budget for the project. Once again, town council and school committee leadership (former chair) decided to override the wishes of the townsfolk.

Bob Chiaradio spoke on 6-7-23 at the Westerly, RI town council meeting in strong support of RI House bill H6324 sponsored by Democrat Representative Sam Azzinaro. He asks that the school committee vote for a resolution showing support of H6324 to protect the innocence of minors in school care. House bill H6324 simply updates the current RI statutes 11-31-1 and 11-31-10. Both laws describe and give definition of indecency and obscenity to include cartoon images or animations. Picture poster cards were used in the speech as aides of what’s considered obscene cartoon images in the book Gender Queer. Later on, other graphic novels such as Fun Home were mentioned. Mr. Chiaradio brings up an observation that some people are obsessed with the sexualization of children in speech and print. He also notes the type of sex is inconsequential but the overt gestures of introducing sexual situations involving minors is beyond the pale in a moral society.

Steve Cersosimo addresses the Westerly, RI town council over the recent lawsuit from the Watch Hill fire district as the town seeks to declare Fort Road a public access to the shore. He is requesting the Fort Road be declared a right of way and it begs the question “Why is the fire district suing the town when the public is allowed to use it?” Steve is asking the town to vote the resolution to fight Watch Hill fire district and keep Fort Road as a right of way. For more information, see article in this link: https://www.thewesterlysun.com/news/westerly/groups-file-lawsuit-over-fort-road-designation/article_ef186f10-eb89-11ed-8264-030c83e95a3e.html To join the fight or become informed of the attacks on rights of way, please join the Facebook group. Saving RI Coastal Access/Rights of Way

Ben Weber is a front line soldier protecting shoreline access using what’s commonly known as Rights of Way. The latest attack is from Westerly’s Watch Hill Fire district filing lawsuit to thwart efforts by Westerly’s town council to declare a 20’ swatch of land known as Fort Road as a public access route to Napatree Point. For more information, see article in this link: https://www.thewesterlysun.com/news/westerly/groups-file-lawsuit-over-fort-road-designation/article_ef186f10-eb89-11ed-8264-030c83e95a3e.html To join the fight or become informed of the attacks on rights of way, please join the Facebook group. Saving RI Coastal Access/Rights of Way

Conrad Ferla fights tirelessly for the Rights of Way to shorelines for the enjoyment of the public. The latest attack is from Westerly’s Watch Hill Fire district filing lawsuit to thwart efforts by Westerly’s town council to declare a 20’ swatch of land known as Fort Road as a public access route to Napatree Point. For more information on this latest battle, see article in this link: https://www.thewesterlysun.com/news/westerly/groups-file-lawsuit-over-fort-road-designation/article_ef186f10-eb89-11ed-8264-030c83e95a3e.html To join the fight or become informed of the attacks on rights of way, please join the Facebook group. Saving RI Coastal Access/Rights of Way

Bob Chiaradio spoke before the Westerly, RI town council in strong support of Rep. Sam Azzinaro’s house bill H6324. Bob first starts off with an explanation of current Rhode Island laws 11-31-1 and 11-31-10 which describe obscenity and indecency interests and how house bill H6324 incorporates those existing statutes. Each section describes in its own what’s considered obscenity and indecency and the displays of either. The purpose of the bill is to add graphic cartoon and animated forms of obscenity and indecency depictions in library (including schools) books. Mr. Chiaradio shows the town council and the public in attendance a couple of cartoon depictions from a graphic book titled Gender Queer available in Westerly public school libraries. It should be noted that the public audience showed discomfort when shown picture boards from the book Gender Queer. Beyond Magenta received special notation where a minor child went around his neighborhood giving oral sex to other males.

Rep. Patricia Morgan is constantly looking out for the financial interests of the taxpayer. Rep. Morgan questions the sponsor of H6388, Rep. June Speakman, on a bill that would leave taxpayers on the hook for interconnection of renewable energy project to the electrical grid. Although the intent of the bill is to incentivize private companies to develop on non-forested land, the funding of those projects would still come from the taxpayer banked Infrastructure Fund at a low interest rate. The private developer would then solely benefit from the renewable energy project while the ratepayer would enjoy the exorbitant cost of energy in Rhode Island.

Attorney Greg Piccirilli is the attorney of record for the Southwell vs. McKee, Nagle vs. Nagle and the Barrington three fired teachers lawsuits. Each case revolves around the heavy hand of state government or the clinging of proven false facts and/or the claimed settled science unsupported with empirical data. It certainly has been a mixed bag of results however the three Barrington teachers that refused to take the experimental Covid jab and had filed exemptions and summarily dismissed. However, right is might and the case was won and each received full backpay, damages and offers to return back to their teaching positions. The Nagle vs. Nagle lawsuit centered around a divorce and the mother’s wishes to vaccinate their two children against the father’s wishes. The FDA recently ruled the first two Covid jabs were now unlawful to administer, however, the bivalent shot was still in effect and the two children were jabbed. The Southwell vs. McKeen has been met with a frustrating and often comical responses to Judge Lamphear’s request that the state's bureaucrats be deposed and the state present materials requested for discovery. This case is still active. In an episode of the Dan Bongino Show, Mr. Piccirilli played the audio from the episode where Dan Bongino talks on the ridiculous deposition of interim RIDOH director Dr. McDonald. It best be explained by listening to the episode at the 14:58 timestamp.

Rich Southwell filed a lawsuit in response to the Gov. Dan McKee’s mask mandates for school aged children. The evidence was clear at the time showing medical/educational/learning impairment was causing irreparable harm to children. In the lawsuit, Judge Lamphear agreed that irreparable harm was experienced by school mask mandates. Mr. Southwell is an actuary in his professional life and by extension is qualified to examine information and separate facts from fiction. The original lawsuit blossomed as the state pushed their power of might to include some of the balance of other state departments including the Rhode Island Department of Education. A group called ParentsUnitedRI amassed several dozen co-plaintiffs as their exposure was aired by local news and social media. The Rhode Island Department of Health and the state simply refuse to show internal documents on how they came to the conclusion to mask students. As of 5/13/23, the plaintiffs have yet to receive the requested documents.

Dr. Stephen Skoly is one of a very few maxillofacial surgeons licensed to practice in Rhode Island. He serves many of the underserved patients at the Zambarano and Eleanor Slater Hospital. The Rhode Island Department of Corrections relies on his unique and expert skills to serve the prisoner population that would otherwise suffer. Rhode Island Department of Health issued orders that medical professionals take the experimental COVID vax and for the most part, exemptions were not granted such in the case of Dr. Skoly. He explained without relief that he suffered Bells Palsy earlier in life and the COVID vax could trigger an episode. Added to this fact was Dr. Skoly had already contracted COVID and had natural immunity. In a targeted and concerted effort by Rhode Island Department of Health, his was ordered to shut down his practice. He was denied entrance to the several institutions where his unique surgical skills was severely needed by an underserved population. A Federal lawsuit was filed by Dr. Skoly to prevent this type of extreme weaponized state department tyrannical oppression from happening to other medical professionals in the future. This case is moving forward through the court system and is still active.

Dr. Andrew Bostom held an evidence based re-examination of Rhode Island’s Covid-19 response using data available during and after the three year ordeal. The data used during his presentation was obtained through several APRA (Access to Public Records) requests along with some ingenious data mining of published figures through several institutions. The public was invited to the event held at the Warwick Public Library, RI on 5-13-23. Dr. Andrew Bosom is a Rhode Island medical professional widely respected by fellow colleagues and appreciated by the masses in Rhode Island looking for clarity during COVID. His 40 year medical background includes but not limited to physical therapist, cardiac rehab, an academic with 24 years at the prestigious Brown Medical School faculty. Voluminous data was used to show the shortfalls of modeling which caused hospitals to take a ‘scorched earth’ policy in preparation for a wave of COVID patients that did not happen. This extreme preparation delayed care of patients in need of hospital treatments and surgical procedures. The presentation showed the ‘one size fits all’ pressure imposed by government officials and unelected leaders created fear and compliance of the general public or consequences would be had.

Bob Chiaradio spoke at a Rhode Island Republican Conservative Caucus breakfast event held on 5-6-23 in Warren, RI. He speaks of how he’ll peel back the onion to show how K-12 education is being destroyed by haters with the end game of the destruction of America and our values. He cites that Marxism is on our doorstep and principles are being used on our children to destroy America in a generation or two. Critical race theory is one of many Marxist methods that have crept from colleges and universities and in to the K-12 education system by woke politicians who bend to leftist ideologues. Children are being subjected to adult content and themes using a method of hypersexualization to confuse the minds of pre-pubescent and adolescent students. The purpose is to destroy the family and then offer compassion and caring safe spaces by the very people destroying their innocence.

Nicole Solas, a Senior Fellow at the International Women’s Forum, appeared on the Larry O’Connor show in Salem, North Carolina. Nicole is well known for submitting APRA (Access To Public Records Act) requests to her local school board. A suggestion was made to her in 2021 to submit individual APRAs for each item needed. She had recently filed an APRA for communications for a principal and the word ‘gender’. The request returned a result of 3400 pages of emails and to obtain those emails, she would have to pay thousands of dollars for the information. Schools are not required to charge a fee but often choose to do so as a deterrent to stop the requestor from gaining access to the sensitive data in discovery of materials unknown to the general public.

On 5-2-23, Rhode Island Rep. Patricia Morgan brings attention to a clause included in H6083 Sub A. She notes that on page five, there’s a permissive allowance for planning boards to make decisions with a simple majority vote. As an example, she points to West Warwick where only three people might show and passage of planning decision might be passed with two people voting in the affirmative. The committees in the House of Representatives cannot passed a bill out of committee unless a quorum is present and as such, the same guidance and rules should apply to zoning and planning boards.

Jim Parisi is with the RI Federation of Teachers & Healthcare Professionals. In short, he opposes school choice because of the dollars that might follow the student to a parochial or private school. He wants the public funded school system to keep all the money where he believes it should stay, right with the failing public school system. In a strange odd twist, he opposes increasing the scholarship tax credit limit of $1.5M to $5M because businesses might make money on the deal. I do wish he’d explain how he came to the conclusion that increasing scholarship aide to students is somehow a corporation money maker. Not once did he ever mention the benefit of educational opportunities for your children.

Ed Bastia is an education professional who advocates for school choice but foremost for the best interests of students to receive a healthy education and afford the parents needed options to choose where their children are educated. Mr. Bastia supports H5637, 5638, 5795, 5804 but in the interest of time allotted at the mic, he chose to speak on H5637 and H5804. Leading off on his testimony, Ed gives notice that many who testified did not talk about what’s in the best interest of students but only for their own special needs. Not the kids. H5637 is the Bright Today Scholarship and Open Enrollment Act which would give parents the flexibility to apply for entry in to a better performing school. Because of economic hardships in poorer communities, opportunities do not exist to give parents options that would move their children from under or in some case, non-performing school districts. Mr. Bastia points out that education opportunities was never meant to be a one size fits all . H5804 is the Tax Credits For Contributions To Scholarship Organizations. The original bill had a limit of $1M and was passed in 2006 and limits for tax credit contributions was increased just once to the amount of $1.5M in 2013. Mr. Bastia supports the modification increase to $5M given that the budget for education in Rhode Island is $3.2B. He rightfully points out the $5M is just a minute fraction of public education.

Westerly ARC (anti-racism coalition) members Tim Flanagan and Ann Pearce set forth to discredit and attack school committee member Christine Cooke. Tim Flanagan reads aloud a letter from April Dinwoodie, one of the founding members of ARC, claiming Christine Cooke violated an Open Meetings Act provision even though Christine isn’t responsible for Executive Session meetings. Ann Pearce continues the attack on Christine Cooke with claims of false and misleading comments. In addition, ARC claims Christine is biased against their cause and should have corrected Bob Chiaradio when he speaks of ARC during the open forum. ARC members certainly have shown they are looking for the smallest crack to defame and discredit Christine Cooke or any member that does not further their cause.