Hundreds turn out to fight for school activities
June 7, 2012
“Restore the five percent!” was the deafening chant of dozens of students as they stood outside West Warwick High School holding signs of protest over cutting sports and extra-curricular activities from the school’s budget.
Outraged, upset and frustrated to the hilt, hundreds came to the Tuesday’s town council meeting to have their say. Angry parents, taxpayers and teary-eyed students filled the auditorium and the gymnasium in West Warwick High School and the civic center just up the street (all to capacity) where the meeting was simulcast.
“I am mortified the people we elect to both the school committee and the town council are using my kids as a pawn in your issues,” said one parent to the town council. “What gives you the right to go back and forth? I don’t care if you’re Democrat or Republican, you’re still people and my kids deserve to be treated as such as well.”
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West Warwick Town Council Meeting
June 7, 2012 by SR71, 50 weeks 1 day ago
Comment: 255
After witnessing the Tuesday night meeting,a good portion of the current West Warwick Town Council is an embarassment to the town and to the State of Rhode Island. The actions of the Town Council President, Angelo Padula and Councilwoman Phillis Gustafson are absolutely reprehensible. Once again, Angelo Padula has proven that he is incapable of putting two coherent sentences together and shows that he has a total lack of respect for anyone living in the town of West Warwick. As for Phillis Gustafson, her crude lack of decorum speaks for itself.
West Warwick needs leadership through some of the worst times in the town's 100 year history and this is what we get? Mark Bourget in speaking to the crowd stated "I don't want to make any statements, I just want to listen tonight". Well Mark, I guess the old saying is true, "Better to be silent and thought the fool than to to speak and remove all doubt". You and your friends show an absolute and total lack of leadership for the town and I hope that residents vote you all out this fall before West Warwick falls into the abyss.