Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I waenga i te Kawana a Almond me tana kaiwhaiwhai, a Kawana Donald Carcieri, ko nga Republicans i mau ki te kawanatanga o Rhode Island mo te wa roa rawa atu (16 tau) mai i te rautau 19. Ko te Kawana Almond te mea tuatahi ki te tiaki hauora, he nui te whakawhānui ki te kaupapa tiaki hauora a te iwi mo nga tamariki, a Rite Care, me te hanga i Rhode Island i roto i nga kawanatanga me te nui rawa o te hunga whai inihua hauora. I whai waahi ano a Almond ki te hanganga o te Whare Wananga o te Hapori o Rhode Island's Newport campus i utua e te pooti here i tukuna me te tautoko a te Kawana i te tau 2000, me te whakapau moni nui ki te whakapai ake me te whakahoutanga o te Whare Wananga o Rhode Island, tana alma mater. I te wā i herea ai a Almond i te tau 2002, ka hinga te kaipakihi manapori a Donald Carcieri i a Jim Bennett i tautokohia e te rōpū i roto i te pōti tuatahi a te Rōpū Reipa, kātahi ka hinga i te kaitono a te Rōpū Manapori, a Myrth York, hei whakakapi i a Almond, ā, i whakatūria ia ki roto i te tirohanga ā-motu i te tīmatanga o tana wā mā
Ko te ahi o te karapu pō o te Teihana i te Hui-tanguru 2003. Ko te kawanatanga a Carcieri i whakaatuhia e nga pakanga me te General Assembly me te mahi whakahaere, i te mea i whakaekea e Carcieri nga kaupapa manaaki whanui a te kawanatanga me te hitori o te pirau engari kaore i taea te mahi i nga whakarereketanga na te kaha o te Runanga e whakahaerehia ana e te Democrat ki te whakakore i ana veto. I whakakahoretia hoki e te Huihuinga nga veto a Carcieri mo nga pire ki te whakamana i te mariuana rongoa me te ahu whakamua ki nga take tika tangata LGBT. Ko te tuunga whakamutunga he tino tautohetohe ki nga Rhode Islanders; ko te tau o te pooti tuatahi a Carcieri, 2002, ko te tau i pootihia ai e Providence te koromatua taatai taatai o te taone nui o te US, a David Cicilline, i roto i te pooti whakangahau, a ka wikitoria a Carcieri i te pooti i te tau 2006 ki a Lt. Gov. Charles J. Fogarty na te 2 ōrau anake.