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To the Twice-Losing Candidate:

You have failed, yet again, to do anything but humiliate yourself in public. As the above article shows, thousands of honest, taxpaying voters rejected your candidacy on Sept. 12, making you the first candidate this century to lose to two different mayors in Warwick.

And it’s your fault. At every opportunity where you could have improved your image or behavior, you instead consciously decided to make yourself look even worse.

Where you could have admitted to your tax delinquency — and possibly even earned sympathy from others who have fallen victim to predatory lending — instead you denied public information that proved your failure to pay property taxes, leading to the loss of your former residence to tax sale, and claimed you had “won” a court case against your lender.

Where you could have corrected your false claims about changes in Warwick’s population and school enrollment — based on numbers that you invented by misinterpreting legitimate data — instead you repeated them, over and over again, showing that you did not care how completely the facts proved you wrong.

Where you could have corrected your version of how the FY18 budget was passed, instead you kept repeating that your failed 2016 campaign influenced the city council to cut spending and taxes — when every single part of that claim was a lie.

Where you could have tried to earn your party’s endorsement, instead you first falsely claimed on your website that you had it, and then attacked your party as “political insiders” when you didn’t receive it, and despite the fact that many of those same people contributed to your 2016 campaign.

As if all that weren’t enough — as if your complete refusal to acknowledge verified facts, your petty vindictiveness toward your party, and your continued false claims were not proof enough of your utter unfitness for office — you used this website as a free advertising platform for your campaign activities, attacking others, making wild accusations against public officials, and using a fake title that you neither earned nor deserved.

The voters of Warwick rejected your candidacy, again.

The results shown above are 100 percent your fault. You made that happen.

"You campaigned as much and as hard as I did."

This is a lie. You spent $1,770, held no events, and thought that commenting here counted as campaigning while presuming that you would "carry over" past voters.

And you were wrong about all of it -- your potential support among voters, your false claims about the city, your baseless attacks on other candidates.

None of it helped you, and all of it counted against you.

And now, even after a defeat so profound that other more mature people would take time to self-reflect, you are still making a humiliating spectacle of yourself and providing me and the 6,000+ honest, taxpaying Warwick voters who rejected your candidacy a second time more and more proof that we were correct to do so.