Report Inappropriate Comments

I have lived in Cranston, where I worked for the public works department during summer breaks when I was younger. All we ever did is ride around and hide from the supervisors. I still see it today twenty years later.

In the city of Warwick, I have seen probably ninety percent of the public works people do their jobs and do it better than most of the cities in Rhode Island. They do am excellent job plowing the streets, repairing roads, and cleaning the streets.

Rob Cote is absolutely CORRECT, that there are ten percent of the people who beat the system and rip off the taxpayers.

The fire Department is a whole different story: frequent abuse of overtime, by swapping sick days for overtime with their BROTHERS. Criminal

Fraud perpetrated against not only their neighbors, but also a slap in the face to the Police and military, who still believe in ethics and morality.

The firefighters think that they are above the law, as well as above any sense of moral duty. Three million dollars for overtime fraud. If it was up to me I would fire everyone of them and give the money to the police department who always get the short end of the stick.

When I asked a friend of mine recently why the police and other unions let the firefighters rip off the taxpayers, he responded that they are the only union who hang around with each other in the station, so they become tight, and have the time to swap schedules to make all of the fraudulent overtime and the other unions go to work, and then go home. Remember now that most of the country including cities as large as warwick either privatize the fire departments or have strictly volunteer.

COte is a Hero and all of the uneducated losers who say don't let the door hit you when you leave is the reason why Rhode Island is in last place.

From: Cote says he’s leaving RI; drops role of citizens’ advocate

Please explain the inappropriate content below.