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Mr. Corrente,

You campaigned for Mayor on a platform of cut taxes, cut spending. You reminded voters over and over that in 10 years, 5,000 taxpayers and 4,000 businesses have left our city. So families are fleeing Warwick, public school enrollment is declining sharply, and now your solution is to resurrect decades-old contracts that will adversely impact taxpayers and schoolchildren?

With 9,000 fewer businesses and taxpayers (your own numbers) paying for Warwick Schools, you want us to cap staffing adjustments, preserve arbitrary weighting, provide 90 paid sick days per teacher per year, and subvert State regulations: hiring based on seniority and not teaching expertise, and failing to utilize a RI Dept. of Education approved evaluation system? The cognitive dissonance you're showing us here is breathtaking.

You can continue openly pandering to the unions, going after that precious PAC money, or you can speak out and oppose these excesses at the expense of the taxpayers. The hard working people of Warwick have grown tired of this routine, and many have given up and moved away. Our public schools are failing our children, and we need a new strategy to rebuild and revitalize them into centers of excellence for future generations. When you come out in support of bills like this one, your true colors shine through. "Cut taxes, cut spending" comes across as just another empty campaign promise. The voters are looking for leadership, not perpetual tax increases to preserve corrupt Rhode Island politics as usual.

Happy Independence Day,

Dan Elliott

Greenwood