Kenneth Block is a software engineer and president of Simpatico Software Systems. He founded Rhode Island's Moderate Party and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2010. He switched to the Republican Party in 2013 and made an unsuccessful run for Rhode Island Governor in 2014.
Kenneth Block"The cost of fire in Rhode Island is anywhere from 33 percent to 100 percent more expensive than anywhere else we could find."
"The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200."
Republican candidate for governor Allan Fung "donated to Democrats like Congressman David Cicilline, disgraced (House) speaker Gordon Fox and even Mr. Obamacare, Harry Reid."
In Rhode Island, "Nearly 9 percent of covered employees go out on short term disability every year, with an average outage from work of almost…
Under a bill before the legislature, "you’d have to go to court to fire an employee."
Rhode Island's unemployment insurance system "is the most expensive such system in the country."
"More than 9,000 Rhode Island voters used the Moderate Party master lever mechanism and they didn't have a single Moderate on their ballot."
"Eleven states complete their [legislative] sessions within three calendar months, and another five only meet biennially."
"(I) helped to invent a system that saved over a billion dollars on welfare."