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"[W]ith all the laid-off teachers the SC should have a surplus of funds much greater than this expense."

The cost for the new contract is estimated at $4.5 million. There were 22 teachers laid off who then received unemployment insurance paid by the school district. There were some 40 other teachers who took early retirement [and are now collecting pensions funded by the school department] or otherwise left the district.

In other words, the costs for those teachers did not simply disappear, and they certainly did not create the imaginary "surplus" the fake "mayor" claims.

He also, yet again, ignores reality:

"[S]omething happened to the money [Furtado] promised the SC was going to pay, and it happened in the last two weeks."

What happened was, the city council failed to vote to restore the funding it previously removed from the budget that was supposed to pay for the new teacher contract. The council did not restore the money in time for the school department to include the retro pay in its payroll.

Rather than acknowledge reality, the fake "mayor" continues with the scare tactic of repeating the $160 million figure [including all those zeros must look scary to the uneducated readers that exist in his fevered imagination] and spreading conspiracy theories against the school committee. Accusing the school committee chairwoman of lying is just further proof that the fake "mayor" has assigned himself to deflect attention from his party's unanimous control of the city council and the misguided decision its members made to cut the teacher contract funding from the budget.

Honest, taxpaying voters in Warwick will not be scared into voting for him, and will in fact overwhelmingly reject his candidacy yet again next November.