John Coccio

@GregMooreNH Maybe if you jackasses up there would let more transmission lines in from Quebec, we'd get cheap hydro......then again, you'd actually have to have a REAL coastline to understand that

I'm a full-blown NH honk, but I have to point out where we need to improve, too. One area we need to get better is high electricity rates. Among the highest in the country, and pushed up by being tied to a grid with our expensive, net zero cult New England neighbors.

@MarieForRI Looking over your post, I'm curious....what is the issue with the 6/10 rebuild??? As far as Tidewater, I think we have to root for its success....I dunno what else could be done, as the stadium is done. Kinda like the Mall......its been running for 30 years...

I was downtown today-- "20k" does not jibe with my experience or observation. I guess I missed it; huh... Just blink and it's gone, or maybe it never happened. Folks, can we refocus the lens on local issues? No one is protesting the bridge, the data leak, the loss of Hasbro and PawSox/Tidewater landing mess, the ILO kickbacks, failing schools, the Umbrella Company, the problems in primary care, the fragility of our hospital system, the housing shortage, Deloitte, 6/10 Connector, the cost of electricity, the COLA issues, the trucking mess, the unavailability of opportunity... Shall I go on? We OWN these problems. We MADE these problems... and all I see is people who stand out, act out, act up, and stand up... for federal issues… while the rest of you are keyboard warriors resting at home. Change starts locally, folks. *We must tend to the home fires, not the national stage. RI first... Please. .⚓️♥️RI, so do you! We have an election in November and it’s a local election, not a national one. I would really like to see people start showing up for the issues that matter. Get in touch with your local city committees, volunteer for local candidates, donate your time and your money, get involved. We CAN make things better… OR… we can keep on playing the same old song: dancing frogs blocking traffic and angry Facebook posts centered on Washington. Please reach out to me if you’d like to learn how you can get involved to make a local, Rhode-Island-focused, positive difference. This state matters to me….it's home. I’m fighting for it. Join me. .

@MGDosd It's the Republican party that made Intel a state owned company

Welcome to the CPA - Communist Party of America.

@Jamiesopinions @KaraKryptonite @MarieForRI Ok, but isn't there a difference between ingesting and inhaling the ingredients?

@KaraKryptonite @cooterbfd @MarieForRI Cake frosting flavors. That’s all it is.

Testifying in favor of a bill that would allow *only* vape shops to be able to sell flavored vapor products in Rhode Island again. Flavored alcohol is sold exclusively at liquor stores and flavored cannabis is sold exclusively at dispensaries, so it is common sense that vape shops should be allowed to sell flavored vapor products. As long as cigarettes remain available at every gas station across America, adults deserve the opportunity to be able to purchase alternative products. Rhode Island has the chance to lead the country with this and carve out a pathway to protect vapor rights ❤️

@MarieForRI @KaraKryptonite @Jamiesopinions What about chemicals used in making the flavors, though.....is the remedy worse than the cure?

I’m gonna go on a really dangerous limb here, and say as a psych nurse, I fully support this. I won’t get into the weeds on the harms of vapes, but I do know that Tobacco Harm Reduction is a real thing. I have plenty of patients over the years who quit cigarettes and cannabis by using vapes… and it was always the flavored ones, never the tobacco ones, that helped them get over the edge. We have a safe injection center in Providence so the Harm Reduction folks should be embracing this. Everyone knows that the push for their closure came from big tobacco.

@MarieForRI Ma Bell agreed to be broken up because AT&T wanted to get into computing....the previous consent decree prohibited them...but to your point that Congress expected companies like this to be regulated if they weren't broken up. Bell Labs was the best thing that happened to the USA

I have been shouting this from the rooftop! Back in history, Congress did consumer protection… we broke up massive conglomerates and monopolies… Remember Ma Bell broken into baby bells? Today we have a handful of international corporations that control everything through their subsidaries. They give the appearance of consumer choice, but there truly isn’t any. This is a massive problem in US healthcare. Obama’s “ affordable” care act created layers of vertical integration so companies can dip and double dip and triple dip--into the same pool-- driving costs to stratospheric proportions. This must END. CVS doesn’t just sell meds: They now administer and even prescribe meds. Blue Cross is going into pharmaceutical manufacturing. Hospitals self-refer all sorts of ancillary treatment. None of this benefits the consumer: no one is staying in their lane, all are chasing profits at the cost of all vulnerable patients, and our struggling system. All are getting into the financial monetary profit side of healthcare and none are concerned with the patient side. Breaking up these industries into competitive subsets will provide consumer choice and consumer choice absolutely lowers cost through competive markets. This is one of the greatest fixes that we can provide right now. This bill is necessary and long overdue @HouseFloor @HouseGOP @HouseDemocrats and @SenateFloor @housegop @SenateDems @LeaderJohnThune

@Shilohmarx They DID require signature verification

Kamala Harris won Massachusetts by 875,215 votes. Massachusetts counted 1,173,112 mail-in-ballots. These 1,173,112 mail-in-ballots did not require photo ID.

@RIFairElections @frankriccidc Why???? You don't need to verify citizenship to buy a gun.......and the 2nd and 15th amendment uses the same language......shall not be abridged.....only, the 15th says nothing about a militia

“Noncitizen voting is already illegal — this bill is redundant.” Making something illegal is not the same as preventing it. Drunk driving is illegal — but we still have sobriety checkpoints. The National Voter Registration Act has no enforcement mechanism — no requirement to verify citizenship at registration. The SAVE America Act adds the checkpoint the law has always been missing.

@GregMooreNH Also the only state to take liquor stores by eminent domain, too.....

As if not having an income or sales tax wasn't enough, NH also has the lowest combined state and federal gas & diesel tax in New England. Sort of a big issue these days. If you are coming through, gas up here.

@startchangeri Interesting...........

FIXING POT HOLES in places not Rhode Island

@GregMooreNH They forgot property tax rates......

It's always nice when someone puts all of the Northeast data in one spot. Speaking of one spot in the Northeast...

@MikeyAdams420 Clue. Harry Boyle was his neighbor

@cooterbfd No idea

Massachusetts has a Commie Mayor, a lefty Lesbian Governor, a racist Congresswoman, a Senile Senator, a Fake Indian Senator and various dickheads in Congress. WTAF is going on here?

@MikeyAdams420 I suppose, minus the scally.....but he ACTS like you......I'm sure you know who he is

@cooterbfd Looks like YOU John

@VicMellorForRI ID, fine......proof of citizenship, non starter......

83% of Americans support voter ID. That includes: — 71% of Democrats — 83% of independents — 76% of Black voters Democrats are blocking it. At what point does blocking the will of 83% of Americans stop being called “protecting democracy”? Rhode Island deserves a Congressman who represents Rhode Islanders — not party bosses in Washington. Missing Magaziner voted no.

@GodLemmyis @JohnEDeaton1 HQ has ALWAYS been Basking Ridge, NJ.....the work they gave away, but they still own 50% equity in the poles. And the central offices are all over the place. The offices next to the Garden were Yahoo media

@cooterbfd @JohnEDeaton1 The HQ left. They still own all the poles (despite trying to GIVE them away to Eversource lol)

WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES ALL HAVE IN COMMON? 1. Cape Cod Potato Chips 2. Fidelity Investments 3. General Electric 4. Raytheon 5. Takeda Pharmaceutical 6. Verizon 7. Staples 8. Charles River Laboratories 9. BorgWarner 10. Curia Global THEY ALL HAVE PERMANENTLY OR PARTIALLY LEFT MA In fact, in January 2026, Curia announced it would permanently close its manufacturing facility in Burlington due to “high electricity rates and the state's regulatory environment.” 3 months before deciding to close its MA operations - PERMANENTLY - Curia had been publicly honored by state lawmakers and @MassGovernor at Gillette Stadium as a “Manufacturer of the Year.” During her speech, @maura_healey praised the Curia as an example of how “Massachusetts is where the technologies of the future get built." They lie to the public. Speaking of businesses facing skyrocketing electricity prices - here’s a local business where the price of electricity literally doubled.

@RIFairElections No......you have signature verification......no match, no count.......get over yourself.....15th amendment.....like the 2nd.....SHALL NOT BE ABRIDGED.....only, no mention of a militia

@cooterbfd We do not have photo ID for mail ballots.

Common sense= Photo ID to vote. Take action today: 📲Call your RI Senator at (202) 224-3121. ❓Ask them why they support corruption and dishonest elections and tell them they are NOT representing the will of their constituents. Both Reed and Whitehouse oppose the SAVE America Act.

@AshleyKalus Medicare and Medicaid pay out over 80% of all medical bills.....just add a couple of pct taken out and let them handle the rest

@cooterbfd Yes as I spend 40k this year on a useless high deductible HMO.

PE destroys health care. Keep it out of health care. It only ends in calamity.