Buddy is coming home. In today's THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL, investigative reporter Mike Stanton writes that former Providence, Rhode Island mayor Buddy Cianci could be released early from prison on May 30th. He will spend some time in a Boston Halfway House, then in July, when his official prison sentence is over, start his new life. That could include becoming the Next Imus.
When I was in Providence last August covering the RI Attorney General Patrick Lynch ethics hearing, there was plenty of speculation that Buddy was being offered his own radio talk show. Now that speculation is growing. In his article, Stanton says that WPRO station manager Paul Giammarco wants Buddy if Buddy wants to come.
The vacuum created by Imus' fall from grace could be filled nicely by the charismatic Cianci. And we tort reformers might get time on his show to talk about the destructiveness of the RI lead paint litigation.
Buddy is a guy who sees through crap and in an earlier life was a practicing attorney. I even see bigger things for Buddy as the voice of tort common sense. If and when the RI Supreme Court hears the defendants' appeal of the February 22, 2006 verdict in the RI lead paint trial, Buddy's radio station can cover it.
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