Former Cranston Mayor Laffey Says RI GOP Needs to “Bring Conservatives Back”
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Former Cranston Mayor Laffey Says RI GOP Needs to “Bring Conservatives Back”
Laffey, who currently resides in Colorado, said it was the change of party leadership that prompted his interest in coming to the event.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“[I heard] that a lady who’s conservative, who’s pro-life, who fights the unions — public sector unions — has been elected chairman. I said this is the greatest news of all time,” said Laffey, of former East Greenwich Town Council President Sue Cienki being elected chair of the RI GOP.
“I said, let’s draw the conservative people back out of the woodwork — they have left. They’re up in Burrillville, doing good work at the local councils but they’re not part of the party. The non-functioning, Harpootian wing of the party keeps destroying the Republican Party. They don’t close their primaries,” said Laffey.
Of the fundraiser taking place on June 2 at Chapel View in Cranston from 6 PM to 8 PM, Laffey said, “All Republicans who are Republicans should show up that night.”
“The Republican Party in Rhode Island disassociates itself from the national party — it goes after the message, and the message is, it’s ‘Steve Laffey’s Fixing America,’ which is like an hour long on YouTube,” said Laffey. “Nobody thought Fung was going to win the Governorship. They didn’t think they should spend $30,000 in the Republican Party and give it to the Fung election — they should give it to local elections. The should have. So hopefully Sue Cienki is cleaning house, bringing back the message and attracting candidates in districts you can win. There are least ten districts [the GOP] can win that we haven’t won."
"We’ve got to bring the conservative people back into the fray so they can win some elections, closed the primary, win ten elections maybe twelve, and then you can build from there," said Laffey.