Republican Candidate for Rhode Island Governor Spar Back and Forth
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Flanked by his city department heads, Mayor Allan Fung announced that
“Around December 31st when we have to get the audit numbers, but I think the taxpayers deserve to know there are real results, real reforms that have been happening within the city, and letting them know what’s going on,” said Mayor Allan Fung, (R) who is also a candidate for Rhode Island Governor
Mayor Fung says the biggest benefit came from restructuring employee retirement plans.
But his Republican challenger for Governor says the numbers don’t add up, that two years ago Fung criticized the school committee for using un–audited budget figures.
“There is a huge hypocrisy there, because he smacked his school department for using unaudited numbers and then for political purposes, he’s trotting out unaudited numbers now,” said Ken Block, (R) candidate for Rhode Island Governor.
ABC6 Chief Political Reporter Mark Curtis, “And so you have Allan Fung saying he’s done a good job here at Cranston City Hall; Ken Block saying he has not, and it’s clear there are less than three weeks until the primary.”
Block took aim at Mayor Fung’s time in office.
“Mayor Fung has raised taxes, half the years that his been Mayor,” said Ken Block.
But the Mayor notes those were the years of the great recession, and now the city’s economy has turned around.
“We’ve enacted three; three city budgets without any further property tax increase for our residents,” Mayor Fung said.
The Republican primary for Governor is September 9th.
