Frank Caprio

PROVIDENCE — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio said yesterday he was working to halt the state’s $75 million loan guarantee to Curt Schilling’s video game development company, condemning the deal as bad for Rhode Island after weeks of offering mixed opinions about it. Caprio, the state general treasurer, said he had brought his concerns to credit rating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s and urged them to hold off...

Frank Caprio, who said President Obama could “shove it,’’ wishes now that he had chosen different language. Caprio, Rhode Island’s Democratic candidate for governor, made the remark Monday after Obama would not make an endorsement in the race. Caprio said Obama could “take his endorsement and really shove it.’’ The White House said Obama was not making an endorsement out of respect for Lincoln Chafee, the independent candidate who endorsed Obama in 2008. Yesterday, Caprio didn’t apologize, but he said although Obama’s decision surprised him, he respected it. Bill Clinton will...

Frank Caprio, who said President Obama could “shove it,’’ wishes now that he had chosen different language. Caprio, Rhode Island’s Democratic candidate for governor, made the remark Monday after Obama would not make an endorsement in the race. Caprio said Obama could “take his endorsement and really shove it.’’ The White House said Obama was not making an endorsement out of respect for Lincoln Chafee, the independent candidate who endorsed Obama in 2008. Yesterday, Caprio didn’t apologize, but he said although Obama’s decision surprised him, he respected it. Bill Clinton will...

PROVIDENCE — When President Obama yesterday kicked off the final full week of campaigning before next Tuesday’s elections, his were not the only fighting words. Hours before the Democrats’ standard bearer arrived to tour a Woonsocket factory and join two fund-raisers, the party’s candidate for governor, Frank Caprio, told a Providence radio station that Obama can “shove it’’ after learning the president would not endorse him. The White House said on Sunday Obama would not endorse anyone in the gubernatorial race.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch said that he is entertaining several options in the private sector as he quits the race for governor and nears the end of his second term as attorney general. Lynch yesterday dropped out of the race and endorsed the other Democrat, Frank Caprio. He said he wanted to avoid a divisive primary that could cost Democrats their first shot at the seat since 1994. Lynch told the Associated Press that he is not interested in a job with the federal government or with a potential Caprio administration, and he said that he doesn’t want...

PROVIDENCE — When President Obama yesterday kicked off the final full week of campaigning before next Tuesday’s elections, his were not the only fighting words. Hours before the Democrats’ standard bearer arrived to tour a Woonsocket factory and join two fund-raisers, the party’s candidate for governor, Frank Caprio, told a Providence radio station that Obama can “shove it’’ after learning the president would not endorse him. The White House said on Sunday Obama would not endorse anyone in the gubernatorial race.

PROVIDENCE — Democrat David Cicilline won the Rhode Island congressional seat being vacated by retiring Representative Patrick Kennedy, preventing the Republicans from grabbing a trophy race a few months after Scott Brown took the Senate seat that had been held for decades by Kennedy’s father, Edward M. Kennedy, in Massachusetts. Cicilline, the openly gay mayor of Providence, beat Republican state Representative John Loughlin, 51 percent to 44 percent, in the race for First Congressional District seat that Kennedy has held for eight terms.

PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island's public pension system is one of the most underfinanced in the nation, raising concerns about how the state will meet massive bills for retiree healthcare costs. A report by the Center on the States at the Pew Charitable Trusts, found that only West Virginia is in worse shape. The report says Rhode Island taxpayers must raise $4.3 billion more to cover health costs for the 45,000 current and former state workers and teachers vested in the system over the next 30 years.

PROVIDENCE - The state’s Ethics Commission gave General Treasurer Frank Caprio guidance on handling a state fund meant to help victims of a deadly nightclub fire as he sought to avoid a conflict of interest related to the involvement of his family’s law firm in lawsuits over the blaze. The Crime Victims’ Compensation Program, a fund administered by Caprio’s office, has so far paid $1.9 million to 165 survivors and relatives of victims of the 2003 Station nightclub fire, which killed 100 people and injured more than 200 others.

PROVIDENCE - A businessman who may be the Republicans’ best hope for the governor’s race next year is drawing inevitable comparisons to current Governor Don Carcieri. And those show the promise - and peril - of a potential candidacy for Riordon “Rory’’ Smith. Both Smith and Carcieri are graduates of Ivy League schools and spent their careers as business executives. They live about 2 miles apart in East Greenwich, a wealthy Republican bastion. Much like when Carcieri first ran, Smith has never held government office, is a...

PROVIDENCE — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio said yesterday he was working to halt the state’s $75 million loan guarantee to Curt Schilling’s video game development company, condemning the deal as bad for Rhode Island after weeks of offering mixed opinions about it. Caprio, the state general treasurer, said he had brought his concerns to credit rating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s and urged them to hold off...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch said that he is entertaining several options in the private sector as he quits the race for governor and nears the end of his second term as attorney general. Lynch yesterday dropped out of the race and endorsed the other Democrat, Frank Caprio. He said he wanted to avoid a divisive primary that could cost Democrats their first shot at the seat since 1994. Lynch told the Associated Press that he is not interested in a job with the federal government or with a potential Caprio administration, and he said that he...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday refused to relax the disclosure requirements for groups that spend money to influence federal elections, as the justices turned away an appeal from antitax and libertarian activists. Acting the day before the congressional elections, the high court let stand a ruling requiring SpeechNow.org to comply with the federal rules that govern so-called political committees. SpeechNow is a free-speech group founded by officials from the antitax Club for Growth and the libertarian Cato Institute.