buddy cianci at a saying when he was first elected mayor, he was the republican candidate. he was championed by kind of the upper crust liberal set that lived on the east side of providence around breton university and they were the people that didn't need things from city hall. they weren't looking for patronage or contracts. they were looking for good government, and buddy had a cynical thing. he was their champion when he was first elected. he had a saying, good government will get you good government. when you come down from collegeville across the providence river you have to cut deals and you have to do things like that to get things done. when he came in as mayor the first time, he was a republican so you had an elected republican since the great depression. he was the first italian-american mayor and the city that had been ruled irish democrats for decades. yet a city council that was committed to his destruction just like a republican congress is to barack obama's downfall in his first term. he had to work with those guys and he did work with him. he also machiavel

after an epic two-month trial in a city where people said you never get equal to convict by the cianci went to prison for 60% of voters still thinking he'd done a good job, even though he was guilty. when he was sentenced, the judge talked about you was to people, dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. but buddy and assembly said privately to a friend later, how come i didn't get to acting paychecks. he was convicted of racketeering conspiracy in knowing about it, but not been physically involved in any of the underlying facts. by the kind of framed it as did i do? and convicted of being the mayor. he was the guy who knew how to keep himself insulated like a bob ross he had once prosecuted ironically and he was able to sit at the direct lines, but knew everything that was going on. he was the guy who would know how many rolls of toilet paper when city hall. he said that was part of his miss in his or her that he conveyed that fear in people that everything, but he really didn't. so that was his defense, but ultimately didn't play out with the jury and he went to prison and relinquish his famous to p

buddy cianci added saying. when he was first elected mayor he was the republican candidate. he was championed by kind of the upper crust liberals said that lived up on the east side of providence on university, and they were the elites, the people that did not need things from city hall, not looking for patronage contracts. there were looking for good government. to me now, but he had a cynical saying even though it was their champion when he first was elected. good government will only give you good government. when you come down from college hill and across the providence river, you know, you have to cut deals and have to do things like that to get things done. he came in as mayor the first time. remember, he was a republican a city that had not like the republicans as the great depression. he was the first time in american mayor in the city that had been ruled by aristarchus for decades. and he had a city council that was committed to his destruction , just like the republican congress was committed to barack obama downfall and his first term. and he had to work with thos

providence and the story of buddy cianci embodies the american story.he had a privileged american italian background. he grew up in an italian enclave in the city and he had a private school education near brown university. he became a lawyer, he became a prosecutor. he was in a democratic irish city and then he ran for mayor in the 1970s. and he basically upset the democratic machine and became this italian-american republican mayor in the 70s. he saw him as a way both democratic and republican. he had a special way about him. he was the guy that was seen as going places. he was a champion of urban renewal. some problems ensued and gerald ford lost the election. he went on to become mayor. he had characters who were running around the city stealing manhole covers, selling trucks to private owners. and there was massive corruption. several people in the administration went to prison. he never rounded out his top aide. but he is part of a personal narrative went through a nasty divorce. he basically accused a businessman of sleeping with his wife. a body