Projo Politics Blog

In the days following the snow storm, former Lt. Gov. Charles J. Fogarty emerged from what he calls his year of self-imposed exile.

Called by one reporter after another for his memories and perspective on how the state Emergency Management Agency handled earlier snow and hurricane events, Democrat Fogarty also talked to Political Scene for the first time about what he has been doing since losing his bid for governor to Carcieri, as he hit the term limit on his eight-year run as lieutenant governor.

“My year in exile has ended!” he declared jubilantly in an e-mail.

Since this fall, he said, he has been teaching a two-day-a-week course called “Foundations of Leadership” to juniors and seniors at Johnson & Wales.

“The course deals with the basic principles that are important in the development of leaders including: ethics, communication, motivation, team building, diversity and taking risks. Part of the class involves case studies. And this week I used the recent snow storm debacle as a real-life example of leadership gone awry. The (Providence Journal) front page headlines from Saturday and Tuesday were perfect props!

“I have committed to teach @ J&W for a year and we’ll see what happens after that,” he wrote.

Fogarty said he also serves on the public affairs committee of an organization called the Quality Institute that has been working on a health-information exchange program for Rhode Island; is on the board of the Hope Alzheimer Center in Cranston, and has “just finished serving as co-chair for Meals on Wheels fundraising efforts for 2007.”

“I’m keeping an eye open for other challenging opportunities that may become available in the health care or education fields,” he said.

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