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Mr. Donegan contemplates "If he had a chance to sit down with Mayor Fung to discuss the issues at hand, he would tell him he can understand why people are “uncomfortable with panhandlers.”

From my own recent personal experience with the mayor's office, despite publicity statements saying that 'the mayor is interested in hearing what constituents have to say,' actually quite the opposite is the case with our current mayor and future governor. After many, many unanswered emails and letters bringing to the mayor's attention a 40 year-long paving problem on Narragansett Blvd., I personally visited the mayor's office a few months ago hoping to make a future appointment.

Whereupon two of the mayors aides spoke to me, promised to call me the following week, and ushered me politely out the door. They, nor the mayor, ever called me as promised. The truth is our mayor is walking carefully not to disrupt his gubernatorial run. OK, I get it, everybody wants a promotion. But Mr. Donegan is mistaken if he thinks the mayor is ever going to sit down with him. Heck, even President Obama made time to have a beer in the Rose Garden with a Cambridge police officer, even if it was just for the cameras.