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Rick, you can say cut taxes and cut spending but when faced with budgets it becomes harder. The loss of building permit fees, car taxes paid by seniors, loss of revenue from cutting property taxes adds up.

When you criticize the mayor for his property eval going down, did you criticize the Democrats on the city council? My guess is you didn't because you gave them the benefit of the doubt. I think the mayor is smart enough to know people would look up his evaluation, which is exactly why there is no wrong doing here.

I agree with the other poster who said it was unfair to attack the mayor on something like this. It was a nice event and even before I read the comments I figured you were going to praise him, not try and take credit for the idea. This is the exact problem with politics right now and I see why a voter would be turned off. Your condescending response was an even worse offense. To try and tell someone they don't sound like a Democrat? Who are you to decide? It's an uncalled for thing for a candidate for mayor to say to a voter. If this is about equal time then it's funny I never see the mayor commenting on here. You have commented about him on articles that don't involve him. That is being political for the reason of being political.

Lastly, to claim the mayor stole your idea is ridiculous. They have done these events at Roger Williams Park for awhile now. Did you give them the idea too? Claiming credit on this comes across as so petulant. The mayor hasn't won re election all these years because he's not well liked or because he's not trusted, people like him and he has a strong amount of support. To imply he did this because he's afraid of losing seems like a BIG stretch. I'd say he's pretty safe.

I was surprised by the whole post Mr Corrente. I think when the mayor has a fun, community event like this the only thing you should do (as a candidate for mayor) is applaud him. Anything else seems cheap and unnecessary. I invite you to answer Crickee Ravens accusations as I do find that to be a legitimate charge if true. Also, if you have any estimates on the cost of cutting taxes/spending, seniors car taxes (how many seniors would be eligible?), A 2 year freeze on building permit fees I'd love to hear it. Until then my advice is to stop trying to score cheap political points on any and every issue.