PROVIDENCE – The Ocean State gave GOP frontrunner Donald Trump his most lopsided primary victory to date, with about 64 percent of Rhode Island Republican primary voters supporting the New York billionaire in Tuesday's presidential primary. Ohio Gov. John Kasich received 24 percent of the Republican vote and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz lagged behind at 10 percent, according to the R.I. Board of Elections.
Trump not only crushed his opponents in this small New England state, he also reportedly inflated R.I.'s GOP ranks by 127 percent. By contrast, the state's Democratic presidential primary drew 37 percent fewer votes yesterday than in 2008, according to GoLocalProv.com.
BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh has spent much of the past few days fending off an attack from foes he cannot see: Specifically, unnamed sources who reportedly claim that federal investigators captured Walsh, then a trade union leader in Boston, on a wiretap saying a developer would face permitting problems in the city if it didn't hire union workers for another project in Somerville.
"I would never say something like that – even when I ran the Building Trades five years ago – that was just not my style," Walsh told a gaggle of reporters Monday after he spoke at an event honoring the Boy Scouts.
