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The new Providence, it's true Providence is finally the city of our dreams.

The our top story today, December 6, 2002, Buddy checks in to Jay.

I'm here at the front gate of the federal prison where former mayor of Providence wrote

island Vincent A. C. Anci Jr., better known as Buddy, expected to surrender himself by new today

to serve his five-year four-month tour.

The show opened with Buddy standing in front of the prison, his back to the audience,

just a light on him. And then the newscaster started to interview the various citizens of Providence,

the denizens of the area.

It's constituents.

On the streets of the city, reactions to the former mayor's incarceration were, to say the least, mixed.

Going to jail, of course I'm sad. He was the best in May, we ever had.

They made up a charge and they tried him and sent him, but the Fed couldn't really

prove a damn thing against him.

Visionary, visionary buddy.

Call him a mayor, he's just a little fag.

Nasty little gangster, with a crappy little rug. And at the end of the day,

you can't run a city with a bad you pay.

There's three different people who represent three different points of view on Buddy.

One is that he was totally set up. One is that he's a total thug.

He's the worst thing that ever happened to Providence.

And one that, yeah, he's a thug, but he doesn't care because of the great things he's done for the city.

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