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raven, understood, and once again u make insighful comments. but that bizarre cross-dressing stunt dressing an older male bus driver as an elderly woman for the news cameras, was engineered by stenhouse to deceive the cranston public! and it was in outrageously bad taste and speaks to ethics. her stunt also made a mockery of rhode island (once again) nationally. I'd be surprised if, one way or another, it isnt used against her in a campaign communication.

as to those pocket book issues, well we'll see just how little the average primary voter understands how this all works. we have deferred maintenance (roads and buildings) and didnt build new modern schools because it was hard enough to keep tax rates modest and cover long-agreed obligations such as "police/fire 1" pension, and opebs. Now, it isnt enough to not maintain our city assets, had a maximum tax increase (still only about 3%) and yet it looks like we still cant cover the teacher raises let alone these brand new dpw/police raises.

I would guess that we will see them squeeze the school dept as much as possible, eventually relent to a degree, and cover the budget with some funds from the "rainy day fund" for this year, while going for max tax increases each subsequent year trying to play catch up, while, of course, still under-funding school and road and other Warwick infrastructure.

BUT, that's just me, joe citizen and I dont have all the information about options that Mayor Solomon does.