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Some facts to place this article in more context:

- The fake "mayor" announced his sure-to-fail candidacy from an office paid with campaign funds to the same individual who purchased his residence at tax sale. He has not answered for this ethically questionable behavior.

Here is the link to the campaign expenditure to Mr. Clay Shackleton: http://ricampaignfinance.com/RIPublic/Reporting/ExpenditureDetailReport.aspx?Level=S&Site=Public&Type=Expend&Transactionid=246696

And here is the link to the city's property database -- enter 177 Grand View Avenue to see the same Mr. Shackleton's payments in 2014 and 2015, totalling some $12,000: https://www.citizenselfservice.com/MSSProd/citizens/RealEstate/Default.aspx?mode=new

- [He said] his message that Avedisian had raised taxes all 16 years he held the office hit home, as the all-Democrat City Council chopped the mayor’s spending plan and unanimously approved a no tax increase budget."

The 2018 budget actually increased spending and revenues from taxes. Here is the link to the adopted FY18 budget for Warwick: https://www.warwickri.gov/sites/warwickri/files/pages/adopted_fy18_general_fund_budget.pdf

On page 11 of the PDF, the total expenditures [that is, spending] for the current fiscal year is $305,271,737, a $6,543,618 increase from the adopted FY17 budget. Revenues from property taxes for FY18 are $230,264,242, an increase over the FY17 adopted budget of $3,657,290. The same page shows that FY17 revenues are projected to be about $228 million, which still results in about a $1.7 million increase in FY18 revenues.

This also does not include the expected $3.3 million that will have to be added back to the city budget to pay for the new teacher's contract, money that the nine Democratic city council members unwisely removed from the budget earlier this year.

- "Reiterating numbers on lost businesses that Avedisian challenged in the 2016 campaign..."

Perhaps Mr. Howell is too polite to call this claim by the fake "mayor" to be what it is: A lie. As has been stated dozens of times the fake "mayor" used an incorrect and dishonest comparison to draw an objectively fallacious conclusion about the Warwick business sector. This is not a matter of opinion; all of the facts are provided here: http://warwickpost.com/numbers-game-corrente-claims-of-lost-businesses-dont-add-up/

I look forward to joining the tens of thousands of honest, taxpaying Warwick voters who will overwhelmingly reject his candidacy again next November.