Just changed my voter registration. Turns out I've been a Democrat for the last few years. Considering the miserable state of the GOP, I'm not all that perturbed.

Anyway, I'm now affiliated with the Moderate Party, a just barely right-of-center reform-focused organization exclusive to Rhode Island, which has a narrow and pragmatic platform, with a focus on ethics, the economy, public education, and the environment.

Rhode Island cannot succeed while our government continues on its present path of corruption, financial mismanagement and lack of accountability. Jobs are disappearing while our economy shrinks due to out of control spending and taxation. The State is on the brink of disaster, and action must be taken now to turn this situation around.

We must fix the government in order to fix the state . . .

The Moderate Party of Rhode Island is a grass roots movement. To succeed, many individuals need to coalesce around the idea of legislating from the middle, forging consensus via compromise and pragmatism. The hot button social topics of our times (abortion, illegal immigration, etc) necessarily must take a legislative back seat while our economy is repaired and the erosion of the tax base reversed.

The Moderates are the Ocean State's only recognized third party. Thanks, absurdly challenging ballot access laws!