The Forest for the Trees!

THE WILL FLANAGAN COMMITTEE
P.O. BOX 9516
FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS
SENT VIA FIRST CLASS MAIL &
FACSIMILE 508-324-2626
March 31, 2009


Mayor Robert Correia
City Hall
1 Government Center
Fall River, MA 02722


Re: TOWN HALL MEETING ON BUDGET


Dear Mayor Correia:


The current economic state of our city has left me with the impression that your administration has failed to budget properly for fiscal year 2009. During this fiscal year the city has faced layoffs, cuts in programs, and a decrease in services. I am also concerned that your financial team has failed to properly discuss the state of the city’s finances with its citizens. Therefore, I am calling upon you to host a town hall meeting regarding the state of the city’s finances.


The city’s budget should be a transparent document. The citizens of our city deserve to know how their hard-earned tax dollars are being spent and how your administration assembled the current budget. A town hall meeting will give you and your financial team an opportunity to openly review the city’s budget with its citizenry. A town hall meeting will give the citizens of our great city an opportunity to listen to your financial team and ask questions regarding the current state of the city’s finances.


In addition a town hall meeting would serve as an opportunity for you to solicit public input on the projected 2010 budget. Due to the recent uncertainty surrounding our finances, I strongly believe that a town hall meeting regarding our budget will positively serve our city. As a candidate for mayor you ran on a platform of making city hall more open and responsive to the needs of citizens, this is an opportunity to fulfill that promise.


Respectfully,


Will Flanagan

Candidate for Mayor


Well, I'll be damned! "Respectfully" himself said! Imagine that word being used by Sylvanagan towards anyone he disagrees with! He and his coterie of bum kissers and hatchet men and women, grifters all, have no respect for anyone, let alone elected officials they campaign against. Most of all they have absolutely no respect for the citizens of Fall River. They only have respect for the $$$$ they can wriggle out of the taxpayers. That is a fact!

Too bad the sentiments of the letter he gratuitously posted online during the campaign at an auspicious moment have been little reflected by his own administration. Another extreme example of Sylvanagan & Company's hypocrisy on parade. Hey Bag-Boy, it's not really informing the public at little "Town Meetings" across Fall River if the information your present about the current and future budget is P-H-O-N-Y! You and your crew couldn't tell the taxpayers the truth about the financial future of this, their City, because either A), you and your crew have no clue about REAL public finance, B), don't have the guts to tell them the truth for fear of not being reelected, or C), BOTH! I mean, the City of Fall River is a member of MMA. Did you not receive the same information about the FY12 budget I obtained by talking to my "peeps" who attended the special budget presentation? If not, why not? What are you afraid of? What are you trying to hide? What, aside from reelection, are you trying to gain? Is anyone on your staff of crack finance officers, or you, or the latest version of Fall River's "Hank the Angry Dwarf" (God rest his soul!), your very own Steve Torres, ever had to deal with such a looming disaster? I DON"T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!

No, you and your too live crew of fellow FROED associates and staff cretins will rattle and hum on about so-called achievements, like this latest loss of the Bio-Park for the development by UMASS/Dartmouth of a single biomanufaturing enterprise, hopefully to be located in Fall River (and even THAT hasn't been determined yet!), while avoiding like the plague the REALITY of this City's financial future to hide the bad news from the citizens of Fall River. Cadime complete a realistic Revenue and Expenditure Forecast? HA! Now that's a pipe dream, and even bigger one than Fall River being financially solvent within the next decade, or Pellitier's "Internet Cafe" paying out more in sweepstakes winnings than he takes in for himself!

But that's what you and your FROED clowns want the citizens of Fall River to watch...the trees and not the forest. You and your buddies like YO-YO Amaral (aka "Pocketnuts Troy"), who, as an aside, doesn't look very good in a cheerleaders skirt and  waving "red ink" pom-poms, cannot tell the truth about what's straight up ahead. That's right , a big dangerous tree of a different sort, a wide, stout tree of operating budget deficits. And it's that one future tree you are willingly overlooking, The Ford you bought from "Your friend in da bizinezz" will crash head on into it. And then you'll all be lost in that forest of red ink.

Maybe instead of the letter above sent by Bag-Boy deluxe during the campaign, we all might consider THIS one instead! A man can dream, can't he?!

THE DON'T RE-ELECT BILL FLANAGAN COMMITTEE
RENTED P.O. BOX SOMEWHERE IN
FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS
SENT VIA LOW CLASS MAIL BECAUSE
GOV'T CTR IS STILL CLOSED ON FRIDAYS
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April Fool's Day 2010
Mayor of FRGTV
City Hall Throne
1 Government Center
Fall River, MA 02722


Re: TOWN HALL MEETING ON BIO PARK AND CASINO
Dear See Through Mayor :
The current state of our city has left me with the impression that your administration has failed to even attempt to fulfill any campaign promises.


During this fiscal year the city has faced secrecy, arrogance and dictatorship behavior much like the stop bob people rallied against on your behalf and dime. . I am also concerned that your have failed to properly discuss the state of the city with its citizens. Therefore, I am calling upon you to host a town hall meeting regarding the state of the city and it's economic development.

The city should be as transparent as the current mayor vowed it would be upon election.
The citizens of our city deserve to know how their hard-earned tax dollars are being spent and how your administration assembled the current deal with the Wampanoags, Baccarri and any other top secret deals .. ... A town hall meeting will give you and your 'team of ...' an opportunity to openly review the city with its citizenry. A town hall meeting will give the citizens of our great city an opportunity to listen to your rhetoric and ask questions regarding the current state of the city.
In addition a town hall meeting would serve as an opportunity for you to solicit public input on the projected economic development and latest photo -ops . Due to the recent uncertainty surrounding the city we strongly believe that a town hall meeting will positively serve our city. As a candidate for mayor you ran on a platform of making city hall more open and responsive to the needs of citizens, this is an opportunity to fulfill that promise.
Respectfully,


Bill Flanagan
Candidate for re-election


PS.....Hey Yo-Yo Amaral, if you and FROED love Fall River so much and want to save current jobs and develop new ones, why did you move your yo-yo production out of Fall River?