Girard at Large 06062024

Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais, a Republican, campaigned around the city promising to cut taxes, calling himself the only candidate that wouldn't raise them. Despite that, he proposed a tax hike that was even bigger than the one given to the city by former Democrat Mayor Joyce Craig and the overwhelmingly Democrat Board of Aldermen.

Rich not only details Ruais' tax cut promises, using his own campaign literature, he exposes how Ruais sabotaged the efforts of Republican aldermen to bring forward a budget that actually DID cut taxes and shares the tactical gaffe that kept that budget from even being presented.

Along the way, Rich lays bare the lies pushed by the "more money crowd" that demanded higher funding for schools, despite collapsing enrollment numbers and massive spending increases.