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Avedisian laid the foundation for all that is wrong in the city by "paying off" City Council members with jobs for family and friend, positions on boards and special favors no other non-political citizen could receive. His budgets and union friendly contracts were rubber stamped through the legislative process by a now late Council President and an incompetent President Travis.

Hired competent people? That's a joke. Most of these people couldn't get a job in private industry. Take for example,

former Councilman Stevie Colantuono who served as his chief accomplice moving Scotty's legislation through the process and for his services he took home free lifetime healthcare and low and behold Scotty hired them as legal council at RIPTA for a sweet 6 figure salary. It paid to play in the Scotty Avedisian administration.

There was no opposition party in Warwick for 20 years, it was Scotty's way with the support of the union thugs in the WFD and DPW. Scotty's systematic plan destroyed the education system using schools as a scapegoat and taking every last dollar in property taxes for out of control city spending on lavish unsustainable retirement benefits for the unions lackeys who kept him in power.

Love how the conflicted Scotty supporters want to deflect his responsibility in all of this always advocated for incremental tax increases but never touching on the sustainability of these retirement giveaways.

This was the Scotty play book and it appears that the current mayor and City Council have studied it well.