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The Stenhouse drag queen fiasco - which made INTERNATIONAL news, humiliating RI - is two things, a good point of humor, AND a very serious campaign issue with regards to Stenhouse's mental judgement. It may be THE issue. However, Stenhouse also totally lacks the necessary experience.

Solomon has TONS of direct experience running Warwick AND a law degree and a CPA credential... and you cant take all that away from him.

So the calculus becomes, can Solomon do the right thing because the voters demand it - and if so he definitely has the capability to enact the voters' will (and I actually think he would, as he's not all that confrontational).

Stenhouse on the other hand not only has horrendous and bizzare judgement, is less than junior league at running Warwick. As to Avedisian pumping her up, how much sway would that really have? He is no longer mayor AND there at Category fiscal storm left behind his hasty departure.

His "Aww shucks" schtick worked for him while he ran a steady ship with little controversy but would that hold enough sway to elect a lady with her baggage and lack of experience? Nope. And the fact that Avedisian now appears to have run a steady ship, but a steadily slowly sinking fiscal ship which now requires big correction (tax hikes), further reduces any influence he may have publicly in our city. He would almost have to campaign to rehabilitate and improve his reputation all over again, THEN transfer some of that capital over to Stenhouse and hope that overcomes all her weaknesses. He wont, and it wont. He has a new job to do and no matter how much he delegates work there, he cant run from all the time that will take. Not to mention what kind of experience does he have directly running a large transportation organization? Almost none. Makes him even more tied up while he tries to get up to speed there.

Unless Solomon gets run over by a truck, I predict he is our next mayor. (And he has my vote as the clearly logical choice).

Just my opinion, and I really don't know any of these people personally, except from the coverage in excellent Warwick Beacon and other media reports.