In Case You Missed It: Gordon Fox Accused of Manipulating House Campaigns

In Case You Missed It: Gordon Fox Accused of Manipulating House Campaigns

In Case You Missed It," GoLocal's Saturday feature, puts the week's top stories in one easy piece for you to review and read. Check out what dominated the news cycle this week in Rhode Island and get all the details with these easy links.

The November 2012 general election isn't over for all candidates, either winners or losers, with several democrats pointing fingers at  Speaker of the House, Gordon Fox and his staffers alleging impropriety, manipulation and illegal campaign coordination by arguably the most influential politician in the State. 

See the original story regarding happenings at the State House here.

In continuation of the Fox story, ethics experts weighed in on the dual roles played by the Speaker's chief political consultant, Joe Fleming, who also works as a pollster and political analyst at WPRI-12. Ed Wasserman, Dean of the University of California Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism examinied the transparency and ethical issues posed by pollsters working for political parties.

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Read what the experts had to say, here. 

In other news at the House, reform advocate Ken Block released information alleging that the master lever may have helped the Speaker avoid defeat in the November election.  Block alleged that killing the master lever legislation and not allowing it to come to the floor for a vote was an undermining of democracy.

On Friday, Fox responded in an impromptu interview with RIFuture's Bob Plain, coming out in favor of the master lever and slamming Block for his criticism of Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed and himself.