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Dear CrickeeRaven,

Thank you for finally admitting that you are a Soloman-supporter. It explains a lot.

For the record CrickeeRaven, as I have explained many times before, Warwick taxes have factually gone up EVERY YEAR FOR 17 YEARS IN A ROW! Your soon-to-be candidate, City Councilman Joe Soloman voted in favor of every increase!

THEN, I came along and campaigned to "Cut Taxes - Cut Spending".

I campaigned for 700 days in a row and spent over $40,000 of my own money to rally the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab. Those taxpayers delivered my message LOUD AND CLEAR to their City Council who denied tax-increasing amendments from Avedisian 29 times in the 2017 budget hearings. My campaign, created by ME, Crickee, caused that movement. My campaign, created by ME got those 29 taxes cut from the budget. Joe didn't spend a dime. Joe didn't campaign a day. It was all ME. Joe and the rest of the City Council voted the way their constituents demanded, but make no doubt about it, I rallied the masses and even YOU, my biggest critic, had to admit that total tax revenue "actually went up for FY18". Thanks for acknowledging that.

My movement got your taxes cut. Once again, you're welcome! And I am proud to continue that message into the 2018 election. The response I am getting from the people that are "paying" those taxes is overwhelmingly positive. It's only those that are "receiving" those tax dollars that seem to oppose me. You have always sounded like one of them. Tax-and-spend doesn't work in an economy like this one. If you (or Joe) truly cared about the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab, you would understand that. Warwick has liabilities over 750 million dollars and they have doubled in the last 3 or 4 years. The only way to attract new taxpayers into Warwick (We've lost 5,800 in the last ten years according to the U.S. Census) is to "Cut Taxes - Cut Spending". That will attract some new taxpayers which will reduce the tax needs on the rest of us.

Happy Spring everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor