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Cat, it is truly pathetic that the two-time loser keeps repeating those statements that directly resulted in his second humiliating loss on Sept. 12, rather than learning the very obvious and clear lesson that you explain.

"Plus, as you know, they had to fight FOR 2 YEARS in order to even GET their 3% raise which netted less than $25 dollars a week."

This is a lie. The union's "fight" included work-to-rule, illegal sick-outs, pickets, and walking out of meetings, as well as pitting the arbitrators against the mediators and trying to pick the best deal -- which resulted in them getting an objectively worse contract than if they had just agreed to the same terms three years ago.

"I agree that some of that is going to salaries and pensions..."

Nearly 90 percent of the school budget pays for teacher salaries and benefits. That's not "some," that's "most."

"[T]axpayers need to see a INDEPENDANT AUDIT..."

First, it's spelled "independent."

Second, as has been repeatedly pointed out to the two-time loser, an independent third-party audit is conducted and published every year by the same firm that audits the city's books. Its independence has never -- except for the two-time loser -- been questioned.

"Why else would they be so secretive?"

The school committee followed the public and visible process to meet the law's requirements, including issuing a public RFP, meeting in public session to select the program auditors, and publicly releasing their findings. There was nothing "secretive" about this process at all.

"Why else would they insist on being the ones that selected this so-called 'independent auditor'?"

Because that is what state law requires. State law -- not the two-time loser's delusional opinion or conspiracy theories -- governs how a program audit is conducted.