1. Donald Carcieri is the latest member of the Republican Party to have served as Governor of Rhode Island.
17 Facts About Donald Carcieri
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Donald Carcieri's father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Swedish descent.
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Donald Carcieri played baseball, basketball, and football while in high school and received a college scholarship.
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Donald Carcieri graduated from Brown University with a degree in International Relations.
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Donald Carcieri started his career as a high school math teacher, working in Newport, Rhode Island, and Concord, Massachusetts.
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Donald Carcieri later became a banker and businessman, working his way up the ranks to become an executive vice president at Old Stone Bank.
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Donald Carcieri eventually became Joint Managing Director for Cookson and CEO of the company's Cookson America subsidiary.
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At the request of Donald Carcieri, Cookson established their US headquarters in an unused building in downtown Providence.
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Donald Carcieri ran for Governor of Rhode Island in 2002.
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Donald Carcieri vetoed the bill, but the legislature overrode Donald Carcieri by a large margin.
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Donald Carcieri has had a history of confrontations with the heavily Democratic state legislature, community activists, and organized labor.
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Rhode Island is one of 19 states that elects its governor and lieutenant governor separately rather than on a single party ticket; Carcieri faced his own Lieutenant Governor, Democrat Charles J Fogarty, who was prevented, by term limits, from running again for the Lieutenant Governor position.
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Widely criticized for blocking the Lieutenant Governor from taking charge in his absence, Donald Carcieri admitted that his administration did "a poor job of communications" during the storm.
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On March 27,2008, Donald Carcieri signed an Executive Order requiring state agencies and vendors to verify the legal status of all employees and directing the Rhode Island State Police and the Department of Corrections to work with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure federal immigration laws are enforced.
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Donald Carcieri is a member of the National Organization for Marriage which advocates for marriage to be legally defined as a union of one man and one woman.
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In November 2009, Donald Carcieri vetoed H 5294 which, if enacted, would allow domestic partners to oversee and care for a same-sex partner's funeral arrangements.
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Almost immediately Donald Carcieri issued a press release noting he now has no other option but layoffs.