Letters

A lack of response

Posted 4/5/17

To the Editor: Recently, I wrote an open letter to the mayor that appeared on these pages. I wrote that letter after the mayor's office failed to respond to several previous letters, and inquires, concerning the 40-year paving problem on Narragansett

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A lack of response

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To the Editor:

Recently, I wrote an open letter to the mayor that appeared on these pages. I wrote that letter after the mayor’s office failed to respond to several previous letters, and inquires, concerning the 40-year paving problem on Narragansett Boulevard. The city refuses to address, or even discuss, this annoying neighborhood problem.  

When I recently visited the mayor’s office, the mayor’s aides Jeff Barone and City Administrator Robert Coupe politely refused to allow me to make a future appointment to meet with my mayor to discuss and elevate this problem. I reminded both Mr. Barone and Mr. Coupe that Cranston voters recently approved a $20 million highway bond fund. Rather than use those funds to improve our city’s streets, Mr. Coupe informed me a large portion of those funds was used to pay off past city debt. But that’s not what the voters approved, which suggests to me misuse of voter-approved funds.

In comparison to the mayor’s lack of response to my letters concerning Narragansett Boulevard, in November I wrote a letter to the president of the United States, and only weeks later got a personal response.

Historically, Mussolini’s popularity was in part derived from his ability to get the trains to run on time. Long-time Chicago mayor Richard Daley once said, “Politics is about getting the trash picked up.” But in Cranston it appears like our mayor heads up “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.”

It is quite well known that the mayor’s future political ambition is to again seek the governorship. But the mayor’s continued lack of interest, concern, and leadership about my legitimate concern about this four decades old paving problem in our neighborhood, makes my vote for him as governor very dubious.

Frank Justin

Sefton Dr.

Cranston

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