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Thank you, PaulHuff, for cutting through Solomon's main campaign message: "It's not my fault."

Like you, I believe that most voters in Warwick are smart enough to see through this attempt to dodge the responsibility for the city's current state.

Just look at the last two years' budgets.

It wasn't Avedisian who passed the FY18 budget with $6.5 million in increased spending and tried to paper over it with an unrealistic 99-percent tax collection rate -- which failed, to the tune of a $4.2 million deficit.

It wasn't Avedisian who passed an FY19 budget with a built-in $3.8 million structural deficit, as Council President Merolla stated recently.

And it wasn't Avedisian who claimed he didn't know what the new teachers contract was going to cost, or that he didn't have the records relating to the damage at the City Hall annex.

What I think is the main problem with Solomon is that he's trying to smear Avedisian and he hasn't realized yet that it's a losing strategy. Avedisian left office highly popular [whatever disagreements people may have with his policies], and voters won't tolerate having his record dragged through the mud by someone who's been on the council for 18 years.

Solomon has yet to explain what he will do in his own right, and is instead trying to show that he's different from the last guy -- except those differences make him look worse, not better.