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FedUp1, It is obvious to me that I am unable to satisfy you with answers and you would prefer to attack me anonymously. I have answered the question, I do not believe this is a lousy contract for the schools. You disagree but I do not believe that you have looked at everything. Do more things have to change? Absolutely! If we went to court, we would have lost, especially in this union favoring judicial system that we have in RI. We would have lost $2+ million every year we fought. If we fought 5 years we would have lost $10 Million and then we would be bankrupt and you would possibly get all the changes you want and a bankrupt city. That is not the financially responsible thing to do.

I have offered to have a discussion with you via email twice. You would prefer to attack me and any one else who does not agree with you. I have gone through previous comments you have left on the Beacon website and this seems to be your method of operation. I do not believe that I will be able to give you satisfactory answers no matter how much information I put here. If you would like to have a conversation in person I would welcome it. If you would prefer to hide behind your screen name that is fine. I will not discuss personnel publicly online.

It is obvious you do not like Ms. Healey and it is not my job to convince you otherwise. I will only say this, Ms. Healey does not control the committee and you should hold every committee that voted to give away the store before you blame the legal council that represented the schools. It was the committee that signed the contracts. I do believe that previous school committees could have made better decisions, but couldn't we say that about most RI politicians? That is why I ran in 2008.

If you would look at the actual budget for the last 4 years you would see I have returned returned money to the city and the taxpayers starting with the $3.2 Million that the previous school committee was in deficit. This city and the entire state has given away the store with contracts and I am trying to fix the situation we are in by making changes. Those contracts were made over decades. The only way Warwick could through out any contract with a union is if we were bankrupt. Would you prefer that we be bankrupt?

I respect Mr. Nadeau. He represents the community well. I believe we can not accomplish anything by calling the union names, telling the RI department of education we don't want to do what they say or by publicly ranting about Ms Gist. I believe Mr. Nadeau would tell you that I also represent the community well. We do not always agree but every decision I have made was for the good of Warwick. If you would like to meet in person, I would be happy to meet you. My email once again is patrick@maloney4schools.com or maloneyp@warwickschools.org.

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