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Dear Bob_Cushman,

I do my research. You are part of it! Don't you remember when we met at Newport Creamery and I asked you personally about the 25 million dollar bond issue in 2006 and asked for your opinion about how Mayor Avedisian felt he had the right to withhold it year after year? I have written before about that bond issue several times before saying that Avedisian was wrong to charge the interest charge to the schools. I have stated that, as Mayor, I would do everything I could to get that reversed. Maybe you never read that part of my platform.

My point in this latest comment is that the taxpayers have paid OVER A BILLION DOLLARS since 2009. If the School Committee (SC) spent it wisely, we wouldn't have NEED for a bond request in 2006 OR TODAY! And, to your point, the Mayor is aligned with Superintendent Thornton more than any previous Superintendent. In 2006 Mayor Avedisian blackmailed the School Committee into signing an agreement that no other town or city had ever done. You and I completely agree that he was wrong to do that. What's to stop him from doing it again?

Re-read the article Bob. Better yet, ask any one of the pre-2016 election School Committee members if I asked them about the 2006 bond issue and how Avedisian handled it. I attend almost every School Committee meeting (and City Council meetings too) and I have asked hundreds of questions of dozens of intelligent people and took pages of notes. If you want to disagree with my research Bob, that's fine, but please don't accuse me of not doing it, especially when some of it comes from you!

Happy Autumn Bob_Cushman.

Happy Autumn everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor