2009-06-12 An e-mail from Colleen Conley of RI Tea Party
Thanks to you all, The Gaspee Tea Party was an incredible success and a great opportunity to learn about the many areas in which the General Assembly can cut spending instead of raising taxes on already overburdened Rhode Island taxpayers.

But our work is not done!  Please contact your State Representative and State Senator and demand that they take the following actions to put our state on the road to fiscal sanity.

1) Say Yes to Legislative Commission recommendations for Pension Reform (Articles 31 and 32 in Supplemental Budget)

2) Say Yes to Require 25% minimum health insurance cost share for all education and municipal employees (Article 44)

3) Say No to Senate Bill 0713 which allows Unions to do an end run around taxpayers by allowing for never ending contracts.

Please go to www.riteaparty.com and click on Take Action to contact your elected leaders.  They will be voting to raise our taxes this month and need to hear from each and every one of us that we demand fiscal responsibility.  Let's focus our message on these three reforms to save our state millions of taxpayer dollars.  I am counting on all of you; it is only by acting together that we can make a diffference to save our state!

Best regards,

Colleen Conley
RI Tea Party



2009-02-27 A Second Budget Challenges Issue Paper
The PCC has produced a second Budget Challenges issue paper, this time for the School Department's 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 budgets.



2009-01-21 Budget Challenges Issue Paper
The PCC has produced a document that outlines the challenges for the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 budgets.



2008-10-30 New PCC Newsletter
Here is the Election Issue of the newsletter.



2008-09-05 New PCC Newsletter
Here is the Primary Issue of the newsletter.



2008-04-30 New PCC Newsletter
Hot off the press; read the first PCC newsletter of the year.



2008-04-02 PCC Bylaws
The PCC Bylaws as adopted at the April 1, 2008 membership meeting.



2008-03-08 Joe Robicheau's LTE and the Town Charter
Joe Robicheau's Letter to the Editor as it appeared in the March 8th edition of The Newport Daily News and the Portsmouth Town Charter are presented here in PDF format for your consideration.



2008-03-07 Partial Transcript of the January 28th Town Council Meeting
This is a partial transcript of the January 28th town council meeting.  The meeting was an action packed event.  Amongst other interesting developments, Mr. Katzman apparently learned a brand new word that week, "ludicrous," and takes every opportunity to use it.  Well worth the read and an eye opener on some council members' distain for the community they claim to serve.

 

2008-03-03 Draft Bylaws
Here is the first public draft of the PCC Bylaws.  This draft will be discussed at the March 4th membership meeting.