The New Providence
by Phillipe & Jorge | The Providence Phoenix

Take a quick look at the Taveras campaign, his supporters and contributors, his inspiring story, the fact that he is a Latino candidate in an urban city with a substantial Latino population yearning for strong leadership from one of their own. He’ll be using the same strategy that propelled Chi Chi: take the East Side and the South Side and West End and let the other candidates slug it out in the old white ethnic enclaves like Federal Hill, Elmhurst, and Mount Pleasant.

Whatever stank attaches to Chi Chi is not transferable to Angel and Councilman Lombardi and Representative Costantino look decidedly old school in comparison. From Casa Diablo it looks like Angel is going to be very tough to beat. We anxiously await the first legitimate polling results (though it won’t count for much until people start focusing on this race and that is months away) and what we believe will be the subsequent dropping out of a few of candidates.

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