Kevin Aherne
Tony Lepore is a Rhode Island folk legend. At age 68, Lepore is a retired Providence Police officer, but he's much more notorious for his identity as the Dancing Cop who directs traffic in Downcity during the holiday shopping season. This week, however, Lepore's story took an interesting turn after he called for a boycott by police of Dunkin' Donuts. His call to action came following an incident at a Federal Hill Dunkin' Donuts, where an employee wrote #BlackLivesMatter on a coffee cup he prepared for a Providence Police officer. The entire story has caught national media attention, and local residents have become polarized by the issue. But people from both sides of the argument found it odd that a retired cop known more for his dance moves than his crime prevention would become so vocal in the matter. But we at WBOB have a theory as to why. Tony Lepore has been a spokesperson for Dunkin' Donuts competitor Honey Dew Donuts since 2011. It is unclear how much the Mansfield, Mass.-based retailer has paid to LePore, or whether he is currently on the Honey Dew payroll, but it is clear that LePore's anti-Dunkin sentiment is at best,a conflict of interest. Watch the Dancing Cop's Honey Dew commercial below
This week on 990WBOB's The WildSide, Rhode Island Rep. Doreen Costa joined Professor Clyde in their weekly segment -- The Costa Corner. However, unlike previous Costa Corners, Costa dropped the gloves and went straight for the proverbial jugular.
After tirelessly working hard to preserve the Quonsett Air Museum, Doreen finds out that the Senator had been piggybacking off her hard work -- while giving back nothing. So, Costa decided to take off the safety lock, and went double-barrel, no-holds-barred on the Sheehan. Listen to the interview below Having put forth its own Pay-As-You-Go concept earlier this year, the nonpartisan RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity supports the general approach put forth by the RI Republican policy group earlier today to fund necessary infrastructure upgrades - without tolls and without an overly costly bond as proposed by the Governor.
"Good Government" Groups Demand 38 Studios Accountability; Ask Lawmakers to Take a Position10/6/2015 Dee DeQuattro
It has been five years since Rhode Island made the infamous 38 Studios loan deal, and we still get the pleasure of hearing about it everyday. It's great political fodder as politicians continue to point fingers toward every direction except toward themselves. Former Representative, now Attorney General, Peter Kilmartin is still answering to demands that he recuse himself from the criminal case, which he says he won’t because he had little to no involvement in the deal that ultimately left the state on the hook to pay back millions of dollars in loans. In his defense, he probably didn’t. When the 38 Studios loan was being formulated, Peter Kilmartin was hard at work on his Attorney General campaign. |
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