By far my favorite moment at Tuesday night’s State of the State address was a humorous bit of shtick before the speech that may not have been visible to those of you watching at home (on Channel 12, of course).

You may recall the Projo’s report that Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed was so ticked off at the governor about municipal pensions by the time the big pension bill was introduced last fall that she refused to shake his hand when he and Treasurer Raimondo came to introduce it to the General Assembly.

Time heals all wounds, especially when it comes to politicians. When Chafee took the stage to speak Tuesday, he shook hands first with Fox and then with Paiva Weed – at which point the speaker shot a “See that?” look to the press corps.

The two of them laughed, and then Fox made sure to get them to do it again – for the cameras: