Rhode Island's Future is a Rhode Island blog dubbed the "state's most popular political blog" by the Phoenix Newspaper.[1]
The blog was started in March 2005[2] by political activist Matthew Jerzyk, a long-time community and union organizer with SEIU and Jobs with Justice. Contributing to this was the first Green Party elected official in Rhode Island's history (who later became a Democrat), State Representative David Segal.[3]
Rhode Island's Future played a key role in the 2006 Senate race[4] between Sheldon Whitehouse and Lincoln Chafee by exposing a scandal involving a Chafee staffer[5] sending controversial emails from a government computer[6] just one week before the election. Jerzyk, the blog's editor, also played a central role in a prominent controversy at Roger Williams University School of Law involving the chairman of the university's board of trustees use of the "N-word" and the subsequent removal of his name from the law school.[7]
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edit- ^ The new armies of the ’net - News - The Phoenix
- ^ Political blogs a rising force in the Ocean State - Metro
- ^ Representative David A. Segal
- ^ Yorke, Jerzyk, and Morse Analyze RI Politics
- ^ Chafee aide suspended for sending e-mails from Senate computer - Boston.com
- ^ IP address exposed anonymous mudslinger
- ^ For a Litigator on a Streak, There's a Science to Winning - WSJ.com
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