With deadlines past now for local candidate declarations, signatures, validation of signatures, ballot placement, and candidate withdraws – the field for local elections, cities and towns and state legislature, is set. No surprises.
Little has changed since individuals declared their candidacies in June. Very few candidates statewide either withdrew by the July 19 deadline or were rejected by the Secretary of State’s office, unable to obtain the required number of signatures for the positions for which they were running. One candidate, Jeffrey Dinsmore, who is running for town council in Richmond, is listed as under review.
Perhaps most notable is clarity in the race for U.S. House of Representatives in District 1, now held by Democrat Gabriel Amo, who has qualified to run with 1,330 signatures, well above the required 500. Also qualified was perennial candidate Allen Waters, running as a Republican (he’s run as a Democrat before) with 503 of the required 500 signatures.
Not qualified for the House race were Democrat Eddy Medrano, who collected 161 of the required 500 signatures, and Republican Jeffrey Lamire, who collected 67 of the required 500 signatures.
In local elections, little has changed.
In Newport, According to the Secretary of State’s election site, council at large candidate Richard S. Spinney did not qualify and Newport School Committee candidates Alicia Cipriano and Virna DeJesus Mateo, were listed as not qualifying for election.
Elsewhere in the Newport area it appeared, as of the Secretary of State’s site, that Tiverton Council Candidate Dennis J. Milbourne and School Committee candidate Jennifer Joslyn, did not qualify.
There are two Secretary of State’s lists. One just lists candidates, signatures, eligibility, ballot placement. The other does not list the number of signatures, but includes addresses, phone numbers and emails. It also lists very few candidates statewide that have either withdrawn from the election or were rejected. It would appear that the most up to date list is the one that included signatures and ballot placement, which is the list we have used to report qualified candidates.
The next significant date is August 7, when local boards of canvassers submit local questions to the Board of Elections.
Here’s a list of candidates, who appear to have qualified to run:
Jamestown
Town Council
- Nancy Ann Beye | Democrat
- Erik G. Brine | Democrat
- Mary G. Glackin | Democrat
- Mary E. Meagher | Democrat
- Ernest Edward Ross | Democrat
- Micahel T. DiMeglio Jr. | Independent
- Nicola Kouttab | Independent
- Richard J. Smith | Independent
School Committee
- Andrew C. Allsopp | Democrat
- Joshua D. Furtado | Democrat
- Lisa Tuttle | Democrat
Town Moderator
- Dennis H. Webster | Democrat
Little Compton
School Committee
- Susan D. Chase | Democrat
- Amy L. Gleicher | Democrat
- Brandon E. Pineo | Republican
- Michael William Rocha II | Republican
Town Clerk
- Carol A. Wordell | Republican
Town Council
- Martina A. Halsey | Democrat
- Andrew Wilder Iriarte Moore | Democrat
- Patrick A. McHugh | Democrat
- Victoria G. Talbot | Democrat
- Paul J. Golembeske | Republican
- Scott W. Lewis | Republican
- Gary S. Mataronas | Republican
- Robert L. Mushen | Republican
- Maureen R. Rego | Republican
Town Moderator
- Scott A. Morrison | Republican
Middletown
Non-Partisan School Committee
- Tami Holden
- William Nash
Non-Partisan Town Council
- Leonidas Amarant
- Peter D. Connerton Sr.
- Lawrence Frank
- Bryan Hoffman
- Christopher Logan
- Charles R. Roberts
- Paul M. Rodrigues
- Dennis B. Turano
- Antone C. Viveiros
- Barbara A. Vonvillas
- Thomas P. Welch III
Newport
Non-Partisan Council
- Hugo J. Deascentis Jr. | Ward 1
- Charles F. Pattavina | Ward 1
- Ellen M. Pinnock | Ward 1
- Lynn Underwood Ceglie | Ward 2
- Matthew James Grant | Ward 2
- David R. Carlin III | Ward 3
- Mark D. Aramli | Council At-Large
- Charles M. Holder Jr. | Council At-Large
- Xaykham Rexford Khamsyvoravong | Council At-Large
- Ian Billings Martins | Council At-Large
- Jeanne-Marie Napolitano | Council At-Large
- Steph Smyth | Council At-Large
- John M. Walker | Council At-Large
Non-Partisan School Committee
- Rebecca Bolan
- Loretta Burke
- Molly Kapstein Cote
- Elizabeth Cullen
- James A. Dring
- Sandra J. Flowers
- Penelope Billington Hunt
- Robert J. Leary
- Kendra Wilson Muenter
- Robert B. Power
- Stephanie Winslow
Portsmouth
School Committee
- Emily Ann Copeland | Democrat
- John Joseph Delehanty III | Democrat
- Karen E. Marlow McDaid | Democrat
- Brett W. Fox | Independent
Town Council
- Sondra A. Blank | Democrat
- Michael DiPaola | Democrat
- Philip Thomas Driscoll | Democrat
- David P. Fiorillo | Democrat
- Timothy E. Grissett | Democrat
- Charles J. Levesque | Democrat
- Tasha M. MacGibbon | Democrat
- Juan Carlos Payero | Democrat
- John Mark Ryan | Democrat
- Tarah B. Woods | Democrat
- David M. Gleason | Republican
- Keith E. Hamilton | Republican
- Sharlene M. Patton | Republican
- David G. Reise | Republican
- Mary Anne McDowell | Independent
Editor’s Note: What’sUpNewp erroneously missed including “Sharlene M. Patton” on the list of candidates for Portsmouth Town Council when this story was first published. We apologize for the error and confusion.
Tiverton
Non-Partisan Charter Review Commission
- Eleanor R. Byrne
- Donna W. Edwards
- Michael F. Janick
- Jerome M. Larkin
Non-Partisan Town Council
- Michael S. Burk
- John Chelo
- Craig R. Committo
- Denise M. DeMedeiros
- John G. Edwards V.
- Blake B. Hayden
- Deborah G. Janick
- David J. Paull
- David Perry
- Joseph A. Perry
Non-Partisan Town Sergeant
- Kevin D. Noyes
Judge of Probate
- Richard P. Daddario
Non-Partisan School Committee
- Brendon J. Andrade
- Michael C. Decotis
- Diane M. Farnworth
- Kimberly A. Paquette
- Jordan Lee Reilly
- Jocelyn M. Sherman
Non-Partisan Town Clerk
- Joan B. Chabot
Non-Partisan Treasurer
- Denise G. Saurette
Senator In General Assembly
- Linda Lee Ujifusa | Democrat | District 11, Briston, Portsmouth (I)
- Louis DiPalma | Democrat | District 12, Little Compton, Middletown (I)
- Dawn Euer | Democrat | District 13, Newport, Jamestown (I)
- David A. Quiroa | Republican | District 13
I = Incumbent
Representative In General Assembly
- John G. Edwards | Democrat | District 70, Tiverton (I)
- Christopher M. Borden | Republican | District 70, Tiverton
- Michelle Elise McGaw | Democrat | District 71, Portsmouth, Tiverton, Little Compton (I)
- Terri-Denise Cortvriend | Democrat | District 72, Middletown, Portsmouth (I)
- Marvin L. Abney | Democrat | District 73, Middletown, Newport (I)
- Alex S. Finkelman | Democart | District 74, Jamestown, Middletown (I)
- Lauren H. Carson | Democrat | District 75, Newport (I)
Representative In Congress District 1
- Gabriel Amo | Democrat (I)
- Allen R. Waters | Republican
- CD Reynolds | Independent
I = Incumbent
Representative In Congress District 2
- Seth Magaziner | Democrat (I)
- Steven Corvi | Republican
I = Incumbent
Senator In Congress
- Michael J. Costa | Democrat
- Sheldon Whitehouse | Democrat (I)
- Raymond T. McKay | Republican
- Patricia Morgan | Republican
I = Incumbent
