Delivering a message

01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, June 11, 2009

By Steve Peoples

Journal State House Bureau

PROVIDENCE –– The angry men and women flooded through the marble hallways of the State House Wednesday night, an estimated 500 strong, united in a simple message against government spending and new taxes.

It had long been a theme on talk radio airwaves and in Governor Carcieri’s news conferences. But never before had it been delivered in such force inside the state Capitol by ordinary Rhode Islanders.

“No more taxes!â€