Press Clippings

Friday, 23 July 2010
By MICHAEL SOUZA

WAKEFIELD – Passers-by in Wakefield last week were greeted on the streets by Steve Archambault, Democratic candidate for Attorney General.

Archambault spent the better part of last week on the campaign trail, spending time in various parts of Southern Rhode Island introducing himself to the public and listening to their comments.

He also visited The Times in our Wakefield office for an exclusive interview.  “I think I bring a well-rounded perspective to the position,” he said on Friday.  “I’ve served as a prosecuting attorney, a defense attorney and have been a police officer in the town of Jamestown.  I bring with me points of view and experience that other candidates do not have.” His list of qualifications is accomplished, a balance of law, law enforcement and public policy.   He has attended both the police academy and law school. His professional career in the field of justice began in 1998, when he served as a Jamestown policeman for five years.  During that time he pursued his education, graduating from American University, and in 2006, from Salve Regina University, with a Master’s degree in Justice.

“As the Lincoln town prosecutor I focus on cases typically involving things like domestic disturbances, disorderly conduct,” Archambault said.

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by Russell J. Moore

Jul 22, 2010 | 274 views 

STEVE ARCHAMBAULT

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Steve Archambault, who was raised on a dairy farm in Smithfield, is emphasizing his everyday, average guy persona in his bid for Attorney General.

“Do you want an inside guy. Or do you want a guy who grew up on a dairy farm and isn’t beholden to anyone?” Asked Archambault with a rhetorical tone.

Sitting at The Coffee Grinder on Thursday morning, Archambault, 45, began the interview talking about his memories of milking cows with his late father, and his plans to purchase sheep for the now dormant 15-acre farm.

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3:30 PM Fri, Jul 23, 2010
By Tracy Breton 

Stephen Archambault, Democratic candidate for state attorney general, says Rhode Island's consumer protection laws are too weak. If elected, he said, he will ask the General Assembly to revamp them based on Massachusetts' strong deceptive trade practices statute.

Archambault said in a news release that Massachusetts law gives consumers the ability to collect double and triple damages when businesses knowingly violate the law and deceive or trick consumers or fail to correct a problem once informed of it. The attorney general in Massachusetts is also "given broad authority to seek civil penalties when a business violates the law as well as to seek assurances that unlawful practices will stop," he said.

Archambault said that the way Rhode island law is worded now, there are too many "exceptions for classes of businesses."

July 18, 2010

Watch Steve's interview here:

3:37 PM Wed, Jul 14, 2010 | Permalink
By Mike McKinney

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Stephen R. Archambault, a Democratic candidate for Rhode Island attorney general, announced Wednesday that he will visit several communities to highlight his proposals on such issues as reducing drunken driving and fighting public corruption.

He is slated to make two-day campaign swing through Pawtucket, Cumberland, Johnston, East Providence, Warwick, Westerly, East Greenwich, Cranston, and South Kingstown.

Archambault said in a news release that one issue he will focus on is combating driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He said his four-point plan includes making a felony punishable by up to four years in prison for someone to drive under the influence with a child age 15 or under in the car. The plan also would require that an interlock device be installed in a driver's vehicle after a first offense if the driver's blood-alcohol content is .15 or above and require that such devices be installed after all second offenses.

Typically, a driver must blow into the device, which tests breath to determine blood alcohol content. The car will not start if the alcohol content is too high. The Journal reported in 2006 that the interlock has been an option under Rhode Island law since 1992 but had been used only a few times a year as a penalty. This year, twin proposals in the General Assembly would have barred anyone convicted of driving under the influence from operating vehicle that does not have the device.

Among other issues Archambault focuses on are opposing rate increases by Blue Cross and other health insurance companies, with a push for what he called full public hearings on insurer's proposals "more thorough examination" of expenses and insurance company executive salaries. He also highlights bringing what he called a new approach to fighting public corruption.

Tuesday, July 6

Click her to listen to Steve's most recent appearance on the Cianci show.