Letter in Support of Chris Piasczyk

Here is a letter reprinted with permission from former Town Council member Greg Laboissonniere in support of Chris Piasczyk .

Voters of Coventry District 5;
I am asking for your support to elect Chris Piasczyk as your Council representative. Chris understands that being part of a cohesive team is imperative to achieving positive results. As head coach of a college women’s basketball team, Chris works each day to instill his players with qualities they will need for success; qualities like integrity, honesty and an outstanding work ethic to name a few! He applies these same principles as a supervisor for UPS, an ultimate group of team players! Being a great team player is how you get the job done! This is something that Chris’ opponent has yet to understand.

In my personal experience on the council with Ted Jendzejec, he was certainly not a team player and I found he didn’t work well with people of differing opinions, even those from within his own party.

In Mr Jendzejec’s first year as a Coventry Councilman, he conspired with two of his Democrat council colleagues to overthrow fellow Democrat Frank Hyde as president in an embarrassing public display of the ugliest kind of politics that included his co-conspirator’s resignation immediately following the ouster and resulted in a costly special election and a divided council unable to resolve even the most basic business issues under Mr. Jendzejec’s leadership!

Now his issue is that the “self insured” fund is depleted. The truth is Ted would have you believe the current council is responsible when in fact the fund had approximately $7.2 million when Ted took office in 2004 and only about $4.7 million when he was voted out of office in 2006. That’s a $2.5 million drop in two years. We are no longer self insured because the asset value is too low to sustain a catastrophic loss. We now have to pay insurance premiums from that fund.

Our Town Council is a five man body and once elected need to work as a team for all of Coventry. The voters recognized Ted was not a good teammate and DID NOT re-elect him!

Can the voters of District 5 and all of Coventry expect different results in the future?
Yes we can, by electing Chris Piasczyk to the Coventry Town Council District 5 seat.

Greg Laboissonniere
Coventry, RI