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U.S. NEWS Friday 3 March 2017

Hundreds chant ‘Coward!’ amid Paul Ryan’s Rhode Island visit

and clear that his values are Wall Street values, they’re
not Rhode Island values,” said Georgia Hollister Isman, the
state director of Rhode Island Working Families. “We’re
also here in solidarity with our friends in Wisconsin who’ve
been trying for months to get a town hall meeting with
him.”
The demonstrators said they were protesting the policies
of Republicans including Ryan and President Donald
Trump. People carried signs that said, “No Ban No Wall”
and “Hey! Wisconsin we found him!”
“No matter where he goes, wherever he takes his radical-
ly dangerous Ryan-Trump agenda, the resistance will be
there to meet him,” said state Rep. Aaron Regunberg, a
Providence Democrat, who spoke to the crowd through
a megaphone.
The protesters said their ire wasn’t aimed at Year Up,
which offers low-income young adults six months of in-
tensive career training followed by a six-month internship
with one of its corporate partners.
But its board president, Paul Salem, is with a private eq-
uity firm whose members have donated to the GOP.
Campaign finance records collected by the Center for
Responsive Politics show people with Providence Equity
David Stuebe participates in a protest against Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Thursday, March Partners gave more than $700,000 to groups associated
2, 2017, in Providence, R.I. Protesters chanted “Coward!” and booed as Ryan attended an event with the Republican Party and candidates in the 2016
in heavily Democratic Rhode Island.
(Glenn Osmundson/Providence Journal via AP) election cycle.q

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — was meeting Thursday with
Around 200 people chant- Year Up, a nonprofit career
ed “Coward!” and booed training organization.
as Republican House Ryan was not seen enter-
Speaker Paul Ryan attend- ing the building, but a mo-
ed an event in the heavily torcade believed to be
Democratic state. carrying him pulled into an
A strong police presence alley, where there’s a back
kept the crowd across the entrance, away from pro-
street from a Providence testers.
office building, where Ryan “We want him to hear loud
Acquittal, new trial rejected
in NJ bridge lane closing case

DAVID PORTER vember of purposely caus-
Associated Press ing gridlock for four days
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A in September 2013 by re-
New Jersey judge turned ducing access lanes to the
down an appeal by two bridge, which links Fort Lee,
former aides to Repub- New Jersey, with New York
lican Gov. Chris Christie City. The scheme allegedly
who were convicted in a was carried out to pun-
plot to cause traffic jams ish Fort Lee’s Democratic
at the George Washington mayor for not endorsing
Bridge in what prosecutors Christie, a Republican, in his
alleged was a political ven- successful re-election bid.
detta against a local politi- At the time, Kelly was dep-
cian. uty chief of staff to Christie,
The judge on Wednesday and Baroni was a top Chris-
rejected requests by Bridg- tie appointee to the Port
et Kelly and Bill Baroni for Authority of New York and
an acquittal and new trial. New Jersey, which oper-
Both were convicted in No- ates the bridge. q