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Here are a few other things to consider, Kammy: The city council is reporting some $25 million in surplus funds: http://warwickonline.com/stories/city-surplus-headed-to-254m-but-drawdowns-to-take-bite,131220

Yet the fake "mayor" is not criticizing that surplus as "unneeded cash reserves" the way he has criticized the surplus in the school budget: http://warwickonline.com/stories/schools-trim-158m-from-budget-with-variety-of-cuts,131149?#comments

[In the same comment at the above link, he repeats his false claims that the school department added two new assistant principals, has a "massive public relations budget," and is reducing teachers "at about the same rate" as it is adding "SC administrators." The facts are: Those two positions are not new, as explained by Supt. Thornton; the PR budget is $150,000; and 31 teachers were laid off compared with zero new school building administrator positions that are part of the staff, not the school committee.]

He also does not accuse the city council of neglecting its duties by preserving that surplus instead of spending it on things like -- just to use one example -- renovations to school buildings, which are by law owned by the city and leased to the school department, meaning the ultimate responsibility for maintaining them rests with the city.

This is why the school department must request the funds that the city would borrow through bonds -- because the school department is dependent on the city for its funding. For some reason, he does not argue that the city council could have used that surplus money from past budgets to fix the schools.

As you and I have seen, this is because he believes that bashing the school committee with false claims is somehow going to be a successful campaign strategy. And in 283 days, you and I and tens of thousands of honest, taxpaying voters will prove that he is, again, wrong.