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Brendan Doherty
stated on October 16, 2012 in a TV debate:

Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown shows someone can be bipartisan in Congress because he "votes about 66 percent with his own party."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 18, 2012
Brendan Doherty
stated on October 9, 2012 in a news release:

"David Cicilline was the state representative who opposed tough mandatory sentences for those convicted of domestic violence and child abuse."

By John Hill • October 15, 2012
Brendan Doherty
stated on September 30, 2012 in a TV interview:

"Congressman Cicilline, when he was the mayor of Providence, espoused a sanctuary city."

By John Hill • October 9, 2012
Brendan Doherty
stated on September 26, 2012 in a news release:

"The Doherty Campaign, unlike the Cicilline Campaign, is funded mostly by individual donors -- not the big PACs that Cicilline relies on."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 30, 2012
Brendan Doherty
stated on September 12, 2012 in in a news conference:

"The Providence Economic Development Partnership . . .which you [Cicilline] chaired, loaned $103,000 in taxpayer funds to one of your campaign workers. The worker never paid back the loan."

By Tom Mooney • September 18, 2012
Brendan Doherty
stated on September 12, 2012 in a news release:

David Cicilline was "required to provide key information about city finances to an independent outside auditor. The deadlines were clear -- yet [he intentionally] missed them by months" until after the November 2010 election.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 14, 2012
Brendan Doherty
stated on May 15, 2012 in a campaign website:

"Over the past five years the federal government has paid out $601 million in retirement and disability benefits to deceased former federal employees."

By Tom Mooney • May 23, 2012
Brendan Doherty
stated on March 11, 2012 in a TV news show.:

"We have $60 billion in 2010 in Medicare fraud."

By Alex Kuffner • March 20, 2012