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A very valid observation, WwkVoter. It seems that the city council controlled unanimously by the fake "mayor's" party shares his total lack of foresight or consideration of possible consequences of their actions and statements. These new parking fees are a blatant attempt to raise revenue when their plan for a 99-percent tax collection rate inevitably fails, just as their plan to withhold funding to the school department for the new teachers contract has left them scrambling to figure out how to pay $4 million in additional costs.

You may remember when parking fees were first imposed, about 20 years ago. Prior to the fees, Conimicut was a clean and well-maintained beach. After they were put in place and a gate installed, the quality of the entire area degraded, with trash strewn everywhere along the park and waterfront.

Because of the parking fees, visitors get the impression that the city will clean up their mess, and as a result are more careless about where they throw their refuse. Perhaps the city council will understand this after next summer, when they are asked to increase the public works budget to pay for more beach cleanup and find that the parking fees are nowhere enough to offset those costs.

That lack of foresight seems to be a common theme with the fake "mayor's" party, in other words, and he again proves his own complicity in this behavior with his pathetic statement about how the city needs to "replace some of the 5,800 taxpayers that moved out of Warwick in the last ten years (according to the U.S. Census). My critics will say that the Census isn't right but they have no answer when you ask them to explain how our student population crashed from 17,000 to less than 9,000."

First, no one has ever disputed the reduction in population in the city, nor has anyone ever questioned the U.S. Census data about this. What the fake "mayor" is attempting to do, again, is conflate two separate issues. In this case, he is whining about being proven a liar about the changes in Warwick's business sector. As I am sure you recall, the fake "mayor" compared data from the census and the R.I. Secretary of State's office [which use different definitions of what a "business" is] and drew a dishonest conclusion. Again, no one ever questioned the Census data, only the way the fake "mayor" tried to manipulate it.

And it was a local news website that proved him wrong, not imaginary "critics" that the fake "mayor" has invented to make himself look like a victim: https://warwickpost.com/numbers-game-corrente-claims-of-lost-businesses-dont-add-up/

The fake "mayor's" practice of making statements without considering their consequences, one he clearly shares with his party's nine city councilors, is not new. Nor, as he continues to make clear, will he be able to restrain himself from doing it over and over again, which will lead to his inevitable defeat again next November.