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OK Scal1024,

You made a lot of good points and you deserve answers, even if some are repeats.

1. I was never "an advocate for the teachers". I never said they deserve a contract that pays them more. I never said they deserve a contract that pays them less. I only said they deserve a "signed" contract. Scal, even you should agree that whatever they deserve for their new salaries, waiting this long to get to that point is wrong. I say, they should get extra because of that time-delay. Please don't call me "an advocate for the teachers". You can call me "an advocate for fair play" if you want. That's "fair". If you want a calculation, I feel that whatever the teachers end up with for their new salaries should be multiplied by 110% because it took so long.

2. Like Rob Cote and others, I supported Stacia and even contributed to her campaign when she ran against Avedisian in the primary. I don't regret that. She is a hard working lady. The mayor is not. He goes on vacation more often than 100 municipal employees put together. I then decided to put my money where my mouth was and ran against the mayor myself. I invested about $40,000 of my own money and campaigned over 700 days in a row. Don't you remember criticizing me for it? I received 13,278 votes (with NO PAC contributions!), more than any other previous opponent of Avedisian, and Scal, I got my "Cut Taxes - Cut Spending" message across so much that 80,000 Warwick citizens were talking about it long after the elections. When the budget came out, Avedisian tried to insert 29 tax-increasing amendments and the City Council, after hearing loud-and-clear from their constituents, said "NO!" UNANIMOUSLY to every one of them and for the first time in eighteen years Scal, we have a budget WITH NO TAX INCREASES!!

Scal, I'm very proud that I had something to do with that movement, and Scal, you're welcome!

3.My lender broke the law Scal as I have told you several times before. Over a thousand plaintiffs, myself included, sued them in Federal Court and we WON. Got that Scal? We won. My lender was court ordered to pay taxes that came out in my name and they did but they paid them late. They then did several other things that I can't get into because that part of the lawsuit is still pending, but Scal all taxes have been paid! (with late fees!). Even though the bill was in my name, the legal obligation was theirs and they finally paid and Warwick received even more revenue because of the late fees.

4. "What line item would you cut?" C'mon Scal. Now you're sounding like Cote. If we GAIN a new taxpayer, the city will gain several thousand dollars in NEW taxes. ANYONE can understand that. We don't have to "cut" ANY LINE ITEM. Just give the new taxpayer a one-time rebate check equal to a small portion of the NEW TAXES that the NEW TAXPAYER generates. You can see that can't you Scal? You're not trying to mislead the reader into believing we have to cut one of the departments budgets to get a tax rebate for the new taxpayer are you Scal? No. Not you. You're too much of a straight-up guy for that, aren't you. And how come we can't give the tax rebate out of the new tax revenue? Even if we had to borrow it on a credit card the cost would be a fraction of the revenue, wouldn't it Scal? And the credit card payment would get paid in full long, long before the revenue ended wouldn't it Scal. Come on now Scal. It would. Wouldn't it?

So how do you feel now Scal1024?

Enlightened?

Feel like you might even support my "tax rebate plan" or my "two year moratorium on building permit fees"? How about my "voluntary pension buyout program"?

Get back to me. It's always nice to hear from you. My cell is 401-338-9900.

Happy Summer Scal1024.

Happy Summer everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor