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Once again, the make-believe mayor tries to rewrite history and only succeeds in humiliating himself:

"They overspent it."

This is false. The school committee approved a budget asking for $8.1 million, $5 million of which is legally-required salary and benefit payments to teachers. There was no "overspending."

"When the School Department refuses to show the City Council exactly where they spend their money..."

This never happened. The school committee presented its budget to the city council and answered all their questions about it. Also, the school department is audited every year by the same independent firm that reviews the city's books, so there is no excuse for the city council not knowing how the school budget works.

"$1.7Million in advance with no certainty as to how they will spend it."

This is not at all what is happening. Solomon is offering to pay $1.75 in bond payments for the school department, freeing up that amount -- which is already in the school budget. And the city is legally prohibited from determining how that money is spent.

" That money was supposed to go for teachers salaries, present and future. It was supposed to go for maintaining the school buildings."

Published budget documents and annual audits show where school funding went -- including paying for teacher salaries, benefits, and pensions, and school repairs and maintenance. The make-believe mayor's failure to do basic research is a defect in his behavior, not the school department's.

"Warwick NEEDS a Home Rule Charter."

Warwick has a Legislative Charter, which is exactly the same as a Home Rule Charter except in name. And in cities where a school committee is appointed [by the mayor], it still puts together its own budget before presenting it to the city council for review.

So, try as he might, the make-believe mayor did not "agree" with the previous comments. He attempted to twist someone else's words to fit his own incorrect and delusional version of events.

He failed, yet again, just as his second campaign will overwhelmingly fail on Sept. 12.