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Mayor Vincent A. Cianci, Jr. (D - Providence, RI)
The longest-sitting mayor of Providence, Rhode Island and of any American city with a population of 100,000 or more, Mayor Buddy Cianci has spearheaded the renaissance of one of the hippest, most vibrant and economically thriving cities in America. By adopting innovative legislation to grant tax exemptions to artists living or working in the downtown Arts and Entertainment district, Providence is now the home to more artists per capita than any other American city. After offering incentives to develop abandoned downtown buildings for commercial and residential use, the city successfully introduced and backed legislation at the state level providing income tax and sales tax breaks for artists who live and work in refurbished upper floor loft and studio spaces. In 1997, the city was recognized by Swing magazine as "The Best Place to Be and Artist." An outspoken champion of inner city revitalization and urban design and landscape, Mayor Cianci received the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts design award for his dyn
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Vincent 'Buddy' Cianci, 1941-2016
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr., Providence’s longest serving mayor who championed the rebirth of the city he loved but whose felonious deeds twice expelled him from office, died Thursday. He was 74.
An ambulance rushed Cianci to Miriam Hospital Wednesday evening after he suffered severe abdominal pain while taping his weekly WLNE Channel 6 television show. He had been treated for colon cancer in 2014, the same year he tried unsuccessfully to resurrect his reign over the city.
Cianci was one of Rhode Island’s biggest celebrities, a shrewd politician with a larger-than-life persona who over the years was described as both a charismatic visionary and a vindictive scoundrel.
He was known simply as "Buddy" to everyone, everywhere; the sharp-tongued, quick-witted man with the famous toupee, which he surrendered in 2002 when he reported to federal prison to serve 4½ years on a corruption charge.
To live or work in Providence meant being asked over the last four decades the same question: “And how’s Buddy doing?” as if he was as m
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Buddy Cianci was elected six times to the mayoralty of Providence, Rhode Island, and had to resign twice, each time after a felony conviction.PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN SNYDER / REUTERS
“Be careful,” the notoriously thuggish Mayor Vincent Albert (Buddy) Cianci, of Providence, Rhode Island, told an officer of that city’s notoriously sniffy-patrician University Club, back in 1998. “The toe you stepped on yesterday may be connected to the ass you have to kiss today.”
That is a teaching that would fit handsomely on a tombstone for Cianci, who got himself elected for the first time, in 1974, as an anti-corruption candidate, and died in that city Thursday morning, at the age of seventy-four, with a reputation as one of America’s most thoroughly corrupt political personalities. In the intervening years, he served as mayor twice—in a scandal-plagued first round, from January, 1975, to April, 1984, and again from January, 1991, to September, 2002—and both times was forced to resign after being convicted of felonies. He was Providence’s first Italian-American mayor (breaking a long Irish-Ame
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