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"Thank you for finally admitting that you are a Soloman-supporter."

The make-believe mayor is again inventing facts. I support any candidate that will put a final end to the make-believe mayor's hopeless candidacy and repeated lies. Like the following, that have already been factually disproven by this article: https://warwickpost.com/digit-spinner-richard-corrente-fudges-numbers/

- "I campaigned for 700 days in a row..."

Not quite: "Corrente does not define what “campaigned” means, so it’s difficult to confirm whether he, indeed, engaged in political campaigning for 700 days. As for that figure of 700, Corrente filed his initial notice of organization with the Board of Elections on Dec. 11, 2014; election day in 2016 was on Nov. 8, a span of one year, 10 months, and 28 days, or a total of 698 days."

- "80,000 taxpayers"

False: "Going by his statements that focus on the city’s finances, Corrente is talking specifically about Warwick residents who pay “the tab” via car and property taxes, and there simply aren’t 80,000 of them."

"...City Council who denied tax-increasing amendments from Avedisian 29 times in the 2017 budget hearings."

False: "Corrente is misreporting how the budget was passed in Warwick. For this year’s budget, the council proposed 29 amendments that reduced proposed city spending by about $750,000 and held back $3 million in school funding while the teachers contract was negotiated... So, Avedisian did not “try to pass” those 29 amendments; none of the amendments were aimed at increasing taxes; and not all of the council votes on the amendments were unanimous."

- "My campaign, created by ME got those 29 taxes cut from the budget."

False: "Corrente is taking credit for the city council passing a tax cut when the tax rate is staying the same, whereas he criticized Avedisian for raising taxes last year, when the tax rate went down, and also claiming tax and spending cuts when both are actually increasing."

- "[E]ven YOU, my biggest critic, had to admit that total tax revenue 'actually went up for FY18.'"

I have consistently noted the increase in tax revenue built into the FY18 budget from the very beginning, when the make-believe mayor was taking credit for the city council "cutting taxes." And now he is blaming the council for raising taxes. This flip-flop is only the most recent example of the make-believe mayor's delusional belief that he can fool voters into supporting him.

But honest, taxpaying voters in Warwick have already seen through his false statements in overwhelmingly rejecting his candidacy in 2016, and continue to understand that he is a political nobody with no influence on anything that happens in the city. As a result, he will lose his next [and hopefully final] futile attempt to get elected.