{"id":70709,"date":"2017-03-08T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70709"},"modified":"2017-03-08T01:07:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T06:07:30","slug":"kegger-rhode-island-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70709","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island State House; Keggers &#038; Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mush-a ring dum-a do dum-a da<br \/>\nWhack for my daddy-o<br \/>\nWhack for my daddy-o<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s whiskey in the jar<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freshman Representative Moira Walsh (D- Providence) joined Matt Allen on WPRO to talk about a wide range of issues \u2013 including minimum wage and women\u2019s issues. It was a comment at the end of the hour long interview, however, that has garnered attention.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Allen what she found most surprising at the State House, Walsh said, \u201cThe drinking. It is the drinking that blows my mind. You can not operate a motor vehicle when you\u2019ve had two beers but you can make laws that effect people\u2019s lives forever when you\u2019re half in the bag? \u00a0That\u2019s outrageous!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s outrageous! Really? Hahahahahaha. cough. cough. Hahahahaha. Make laws half in the bag? Hahahahaha. Hey Moira, have you ever heard of Ted &#8220;went back to bed&#8221; Kennedy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.630wpro.com\/2017\/03\/07\/rep-walsh-insane-amount-of-drinking-at-the-state-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rep Walsh \u2013 \u201cInsane amount of drinking\u201d at the State House<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; max-width: 700px; background-color: transparent;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/5682670-rep-walsh-biggest-surprise-as-a-new-rep-the-drinking\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAP2Av1jutVYA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UPDATE: Rep Walsh shocked by \u2018insane\u2019 boozing at Rhode Island capitol<\/p>\n<p>A new state lawmaker said she\u2019s surprised by the \u201cinsane amount of drinking\u201d that goes on in the State House.<\/p>\n<p>Providence Democratic Rep. Moira Walsh told WPRO\u2019s Matt Allen on Tuesday that lawmakers have \u201cfile cabinets full of booze.\u201d She described how they recently took shots on the floor of the House of Representatives to celebrate Dominican Republic Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>Legislative leaders late Tuesday sought to dismiss her claims of rampant drinking, with Democratic House Majority Leader Joseph Shekarchi telling the Providence Journal he has never seen anyone intoxicated on the floor or impaired while voting.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not uncommon for\u00a0Rhode\u00a0Island\u00a0legislators to have toasts of alcohol during celebratory occasions. One of the biggest is next week ahead of St. Patrick\u2019s Day. Nor are\u00a0Rhode\u00a0Island\u00a0lawmakers alone in drinking on the job, though some other states have sought to curb the practice.<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts, late-night antics ultimately forced a rules change essentially banning the House of Representatives from meeting past midnight. A Missouri lawmaker last year proposed legislation banning smoking and alcohol in the Statehouse. And a pattern of drunken-driving arrests of California lawmakers led the legislature to provide them free after-hours transportation, though the free rides were ended in 2015 in an attempt to restore public trust.<\/p>\n<p>She said last year that \u201cone of the things I\u2019m personally very concerned about is I\u2019ve heard rumors that there\u2019s drinking during sessions. I don\u2019t imagine that\u2019s going to go over well with me.\u201d She also said as \u201ca low-income single mother\u201d she was bothered that too much is decided at late-night dinner meetings where some legislators commiserate.<\/p>\n<p>Joking with Allen on\u00a0Tuesday about the possibility of a police checkpoint outside the legislators\u2019 parking lot, Walsh said, \u201cI\u2019m going to be the person who ruined drinking at the State House. They\u2019ll love me forever.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess low-income single mothers are the only ones who are bothered by wink and nod politics. Silly me. Good luck District 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.630wpro.com\/2017\/03\/07\/update-rep-walsh-shocked-by-insane-boozing-at-rhode-island-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\">UPDATE: Rep Walsh shocked by \u2018insane\u2019 boozing at Rhode Island capitol<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is a little more about Moira:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Walsh told the radio station that it all started with a posting she made on social media just before Christmas saying &#8220;all my holiday cheer is for women, femmes and trans. The rest of you boys can kick rocks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her advocacy for raising the tipped minimum wage and her candid talk about her struggles as a waitress and 26-year-old single parent have attracted wide attention, including a profile on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/11\/from-waitress-to-state-representative\/506969\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did my comments make men uncomfortable? Clearly,&#8221; she said Thursday. &#8220;Social change comes at the price of comfort, and if you&#8217;re agitated, it means it&#8217;s working.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/02\/03\/rhode-island-legislator-says-was-fired-by-restaurant-for-political-talk.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rhode Island legislator says she was fired by restaurant for political talk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mush-a ring dum-a do dum-a da Whack for my daddy-o Whack for my daddy-o There&#8217;s whiskey &hellip; <a title=\"Rhode Island State House; Keggers &#038; Shots\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70709\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rhode Island State House; Keggers &#038; Shots<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":659,"featured_media":70711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}