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Richard, for someone who claims he has been campaigning for Mayor for the past two years, you either are out of touch with what really is going on in this city or you are trying so hard to gain the support of the political hacks in the city that you lack the courage and conviction to call them out for their actions that have shut down citizen involvement in Warwick government at every avenue.

• Remember the December 2014 council meeting where Council President Travis did everything in her power to stop citizen involvement? The screen suddenly broken, the crowd allowed to hiss and boo?

* Remember William Lloyd cowardly proposing a national wide boycott on my employer and seeking for me to get fired because I dared to speak about the imploding pension system in Warwick?

* Remember Finance Chair Wilkinson personnel insulting my knowledge of the pension system, mocking me as a "hobbyist" ? Remember her referring to citizens as A holes, Warwick Stinks and other derogatory terms?

• Remember the Warwick retirement Board with Wilkinson as a member being sued by the Attorney General and fined $2,000 for intentional violating Open Meeting Act when they didn’t allow citizens an opportunity to attend a meeting?

• How about limiting the public to 10 minute comments during Sewer Review Commission meeting?

• How about limiting the public to 10 minute comment during Charter Review Commission?

• Remember Wilkinson and Travis pulling a bait and switch to bring in the pension expert at the last minute so the public wouldn’t have the opportunity to question him?

• How about Travis scheduling budget hearings on a Saturday or trying so hard to ram all the hearings in, that they last to 12:20 Am on a weeknight with no member of the public present to ask question?

• How about the fire chief and mayor promising documentation on how sick payout are administered but weeks later the city clerk’s reports “no such documents exist”?

• How about the City Council conspiring with Mayor Avedisian and being found guilty of violating the Open Meeting Act by sending out an illegal letter to influence General Assembly members against proposals that Warwick resident legally provided at state house hearing?

I could go on and on and fill this with pages of examples.

You see Richard before you cast dispersion's on others who have been trying to work with the council for years and provide constructive alternatives to current policy, point that finger back at the City Council members and the Mayor who at every turn have gone through extraordinary and sometimes illegal means to shut down the voice of Warwick Citizens.