Ashley Kalus

👨‍👩‍👦 Proud Mom 👩‍💼 Small Business Owner 🎣 Avid Angler. ‘22 RI Republican Gubernatorial Nominee.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@RINewsToday @MarieForRI , can you explain this beach to me?!!

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

Excellent and true

[katherine gregg @kathyprojo]

Another thought-provoking piece on the Sunday Journal commentary page. This one from the RI House GOP leader:
Washington is not the source of Rhode Island’s fiscal woes | Opinion

https://t.co/3WT2wl0KOc

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@cooterbfd @PFNeronha If Peter has a roadmap for rebuilding a superminority party, I’d genuinely welcome the help. It’s easy to critique from the outside, but political parties are insulated from normal market forces. There isn’t “adapt or die” pressure, which makes reform much harder.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@NoWay51124711 Correct. If you cannot win a race (the fundamentals this cycle are brutal), sometimes you pick a horse that fulfills a very specific purpose instead. Block + Aaron is a bad combo on stage.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

Gumpster Fire at the convention last night. Check out the inspiring video on Guckian’s belief system. Endorsing unsuitable candidates (Guckian) hurts our long-term electoral prospects. He still has a primary. Send your money to House and Senate races where it’s useful and needed.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@NoWay51124711 Only a woman will be able to dress her down about the opioid crisis. If the men do it, people will feel sorry for Helena. Johnston MAGA grandma goes after Helena and it’s the closest thing to justice any of the parents of the dead kids will ever get.

[Edward Fitzpatrick @FitzProv]

The International Brotherhood of Police Officers and the National Association of Government Employees endorse @RepJoeSolomon for R.I. attorney general

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@NoWay51124711 He has a primary so that’s not true

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

Spare you what? The moral indictment? I’d rather lose from the high ground than do what you’re doing with Helena. To me, it’s a betrayal of the progressive values you profess. There’s still time to walk it back, and I’d applaud you if you did. Sometimes the right choice is refusing to choose the least bad option. Settling only normalizes it. I was right about McKee (as history has now shown), tried to stop it despite impossible odds, and you knew it at the time but did nothing. That isn’t an indictment of me- it says far more about you. So, you may want to pull those punches a bit, my friend. On a lighter note, after this cycle I’ll insist you call me the highest-performing Republican gubernatorial candidate in over a decade, because it’ll be true. 😂

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

Peter, you found it politically expedient to endorse someone corporately involved in the country’s largest public health crisis- a symbol of a justice system so dysfunctional that corporate officers pay fines for massive harm while ordinary people go to jail for micro versions of the same conduct. So no, we don’t share the same values when it comes to political support. And you know full well that “Ah shucks, he seems nice” is how Rhode Island ended up with its competency crisis, à la McKee. Worry about your party’s soul, not my party’s bench.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

Correct. That was the adult choice and would have respected the larger body, which needs its endorsements to have meaning. This is disrespectful to our broader base, as “leadership” (whatever that means now that it’s largely titular in the RIGOP) is aware of the broader issues surrounding Aaron.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@rhodeislander @kathyprojo Well I like Kathy which is why I am salty about it

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@TommyB_III_65 @bosox1256 There is no option. I’m trying to work out myself what this means in terms of who to support bc I will not support someone who furthers the humiliation of the RIGOP.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

Guckian is the ONLY candidate being asked if he’s qualified to be Governor because he’s not. RIGOP should respect the office of Governor enough not to endorse unfit candidates. His interview is talking-point word salad. Ian bent over backwards to be fair. Full Link below.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@FrankJWoods2 I’m very excited about this project

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

Excellent news

[Katie Mulvaney @kmulvane]

New England's most expensive fish passage will restore herring to the Blackstone

https://t.co/SvbydvM3EE

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@williamriccijr @DocSkoly @SethMagaziner You know I love you, but how could anyone on the outside reasonably believe that after seeing the people you (collectively, of course) endorsed tonight? Two deserving candidates were harmed in tonight’s process.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@bosox1256 If this is true, it’s hilarious. The fact that I can’t tell whether this is a joke or something you genuinely want me to know is, by itself, a problem for his candidacy.

[Ashley Kalus @AshleyKalus]

@KGBKomrad Yes, I hear that complaint, and that line of questioning is what I’ve grown to expect. Aaron’s inability to answer any of the questions substantively isn’t Ian’s responsibility however