Yet again Rhode Island’s Gov. Carcieri has proven he is a giant ass when it comes to passing any kind of law relating to the LGBT community. Late Tuesday night he vetoed adding ” ‘bigotry and bias’ against people based on their ‘gender identity’ to the state’s official list of hate crimes”. 

Some of you may remember, last year Carcieri vetoed an expansion of the funeral planning bill that would have allowed same-sex partners to make funeral arrangements. Thankfully that veto was overturned by the legislature in January.

Having recently moved out of Rhode Island I have thought a lot about Carcieri and what purpose these vetos serve, especially since these actions do not represent the majority of Rhode Islanders.  My only thought is that he is trying to set himself up to be a national player as an uber-conservative darling that kept the “liberals” at bay in a very blue state. 

Keep an eye on this one…. he has bigger plans.

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