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Hello again WwkVoter:

I have seen and shared that same news article recently, and you raise an interesting question of how the Post got the fake "mayor" to shut up -- the answer is, they asked him a direct question about his clearly illegal activity and he knew he couldn't just make up something to say, as he so often does on this website.

His previous comment is further proof:

"Only in 2017 did the Mayor fail to increase taxes (29 times!). My message of "Cut Taxes - Cut Spending" rallied the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab. I felt proud to know that campaigning 700 days in a row and spending $40,000 of my own money (as well as many generous contributions) worked! The taxpayers spoke loud and clear through their courageous City Council and 29 tax increases were unanimously voted down."

For the entire truth about these false claims, I invite you to read this informative and well-researched report from the Post: https://warwickpost.com/digit-spinner-richard-corrente-fudges-numbers/

From that article, you will learn:

- that the tax rate went down in 2017 and stayed level in 2018, and in both years the city collected more tax revenue;

- that the fake "mayor's" failed campaign did not stop the 9-0 Democratic city council from spending more and raising more through taxes in 2018;

- that there are not 80,000 taxpayers in Warwick;

- that he did not campaign for 700 days;

- that he raised just $4,000 of his overall campaign spending from about a dozen Democratic insiders, including elected officials and candidates in Warwick, Cranston, and Providence; and

- that the 29 "tax increases" were, in fact, amendments brought by the city council [not the mayor] to reduce the proposed budget by $750,000 and were not all passed unanimously.

So, as you see yet again, the fake "mayor" continues to lie on this site because he believes no one running it will stop him. I do find consolation, though, in the fact that the editors and owners of this website do not elect the mayor -- honest, taxpaying voters do, and we can be certain that they will overwhelmingly defeat the lying fake "mayor" again. He is doing all of us a favor by so readily and repeatedly proving his complete unfitness for office, and in a way the Beacon is doing us all a favor by giving him so much proverbial rope.