Paul was raised in Attleboro. His parents are retired pharmacists and small business owners. He spent many summers and days after school working in his parents' drug stores, where from a very young age he learned the hard work, service and the challenges and rewards of small business ownership.
As a State Representative my number one policy issue is finding out if our taxpayer funded programs work or not.
As your Mayor, I will establish a 'CitiStat' program. CitiStat is a progressive way to use data and statistics to run city government departments in a transparent public forum. Taxpayers will finally know how and where their tax dollars are being spent.
I don't take anything on faith and I don't assume anything. I read reports and see if the research methods were done correctly. Many times they are, many times they are not. I don't go along with a report just because there are numbers on a page. I ask penetrating questions that get to the core of public service - is the public being served or are we just going through the motions?