South County has always had a sizeable conservative population, but it’s getting ridiculous
By Will Collette
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| Now's your chance, guys |
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| BYO toilet. |
Given how often
these items are looted by Russian soldiers in occupied areas of Ukraine, you
may have to bring your own.
Jim Mageau, are you paying attention?
I am singling Mageau out because he is
the most vocal Trump supporter and recently has used the Westerly Sun and Town
Council meetings to propagate lunatic right-wing issues.
Lately, Mageau has had his
letter-to-the-editor guns blazing, taking on all comers in his defense of
private ownership of weapons of war, such as the AR-15 assault rifle.
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Mageau also weighed in on the Russian invasion of Ukraine with another letter where he blames the war on Joe Biden. Of course he does.
With his usual keen
reasoning and grasp of history, Mageau says that because Obama did not go to
war with Russia over their 2014 seizure of Crimea, Joe Biden is to blame for
the current war.
He contrasts Presidents Biden and
Obama’s conduct of foreign affairs with that of his idol, sex offender Donald
Trump. According to Mageau, Trump showed his mastery over North Korea, Iran,
Russia and China in Rooseveltesque “carry a big” stick style.
During the last conversation I ever had
with Jim Mageau, I listened to a spittle-filled diatribe against President
Obama and Hillary Clinton, where he predicted that Benghazi would be the political
death of both of them. Mageau is such a prophet!
On February 13, Mageau stood before the
Charlestown Town Council to testify on behalf of an obscure MAGA
priority, the convening of a new national “Convention of the States”
to amend the Constitution. He spoke of a bill, introduced by state
Representative Arthur “Doc” Corvese, one of the most conservative DINOs in the
State House, with no co-sponsors and no chance of passage.
The reason why there is a MAGA riptide pushing a new Constitutional Convention is to block any future federal mandates like the anti-COVID measures put in place during the pandemic and to rein in some imagined abuses by the IRS.
The effort is being funded by the notorious
Koch Industries.
Mageau asked for Charlestown resolution
in support of a new convention.
Pack your bags, Jim, cuz you’re not going
to get what you want. Better luck in Russia.
And when you leave, take Doc Corvese with you
along with the other super-DINO, Westerly’s own state Rep. Sam Azzinaro.
Azzinaro once declared that he takes his
direction on how to vote not from voters but from the Catholic Bishop of
Providence. Maybe that’s where Sam’s recent bill to criminalize distribution by
school libraries – and if Sam has his way ALL libraries – from distributing
material Sam deems offensive to anyone under age 18.
In a bizarre
interview Sam gave to Alex Nunes at the Public’s Radio, Azzinaro
said:
“The bill is saying that anyone under the age of 18 should not be allowed to go into a library and take a book out that is showing all kinds of pornographic illustrations of sex acts: oral and intercourse–men with men, woman with women, and so on and so forth…I don't think a child of 10, 11, 12 years old should be able to go and get a book, and bring it up, and say, ‘Look at this book–wow.’”
Azzinaro broadly defines the types of
materials he considers criminal to include any depiction of nudity (goodbye,
Michelangelo’s David) full or partial (goodbye crucifixes). It also criminalizes
any depiction of sexual intercourse. Goodbye Bible.
Oh, and it’s not surprising that among
the small cadre of General Assembly right-wingers co-sponsoring Sam’s bill is
none other than Doc Corvese.
Look, I understand how MAGAnuts have
made ignorance and illiteracy into public virtues. Trump himself, in a rare
moment of honesty, declared in
2016 that “I love the poorly educated.”
However, most people believe that
education is the magic bullet for individual success in life and the good of
our community.
That’s why Charlestown and its Chariho
partners, Richmond and Hopkinton, need to prepare themselves for the
approaching storm if the MAGA Council majority in Richmond succeeds in
installing MAGAnut Clay Johnson to file a vacancy on the Chariho School
Committee.
The Richmond town council appointed Johnson to
fill a Chariho vacancy instead of following the Town Charter that requires
vacancies to be filled by the next-highest vote getter. Johnson didn’t even run
for election, but Jessica Purcell did.
Purcell missed getting elected by only 27
votes, but is, under the Town Charter, the person who should be filling the
vacancy.
This controversy is detailed HERE,
another insightful piece by Alex Nunes, and has had its hearing before the RI
Supreme Court.
The Richmond MAGA Council was represented by
none other than Charlestown’s Narragansett-hating lawyer, Joe Larisa.
If Purcell loses and Johnson
keeps the Chariho seat, I predict an all-out war over books, race, teacher
salaries and tenure that will rip through the Chariho towns pitting neighbors
against neighbors.
Mageau hasn’t weighed in on the Chariho
controversy yet. Maybe he’s too busy defending assault rifles and packing his
bags for Moscow.
