Open message to Bob Healey ( Warwick Beacon post )

Johnny Friendly – from "On the Waterfront" a 1954 American
crime drama film about union violence and corruption
amongst longshoremen.

Bob, your remarkable 22% of the vote for governor of Rhode Island was a catharsis for all those voters utterly frustrated with establishment politicians. Earlier there was a sinister plot to keep you off the ballot. The health of what remains of our "democracy" is far more important than the fate of the usually hapless Republican candidate.

Both Raimondo and Fung claimed the other was a captive of "special interests". The old socialist in me fails to see much difference between Wall Street bankers and Main Street bankers. There was equal fawning over phony JOB CREATORS. And too much ridiculous image making.

Union bosses ( versions of "Johnny Friendly" of On the Waterfront fame ) were abject bootlickers of entrenched Democrats. If they had the backbone, they would have long ago organized the American equivalent of the British Labor Party.

The pragmatist in me would give ALL your ideas a chance. Right now I nominate you for Rhode Island Marijuana Czar.

But my own leftist views made me put a WRITE IN VOTE for Mother Teresa. I am no fan of Bishop Tobin ( a registered Republican, by the way ). But I like Pope Francis and the benign social philosophy of the Catholic Church.

No guy who was young during the tumultuous 60s would have a problem with your beard, Bob. I cannot imagine a clean shaven Allen Ginsberg reciting his famous once BANNED poem "Howl" .

I do think it possible to create thousands of needed jobs here in Rhode Island without the "magic" of parasite capitalists.

There was a era  in the springtime of humanity when our happy hunter-farmer ancestors NEVER looked or begged for a JOB. The Good Earth was still theirs.

Thank you for your service, Bob !