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Scal, WwkVoter, and Thecaptain:

Clearly, Philip is new here. That's the only way to explain how he missed the many times we have all been critical of Joe Solomon.

For my part, I have frequently mentioned the city council's decisions under Solomon, including the $6.5 million increase in spending and unrealistic 99-percent tax collection rate in FY18. Those decisions led directly to a $4.2 million deficit and state-capped maximum tax increase in FY19.

Philip also clearly has no context for the many defects in the make-believe mayor's candidacy, which all of you correctly point out.

And I do agree, like Scal, with Thecaptain. The city is looking at having to make very difficult financial decisions, and to a degree it doesn't matter who's in the mayor's office -- to a degree.

Joe Solomon has been on the council since 2000; many other councilors have been in office for several years, as well -- that means many of the same people who let this problem develop will now have to fix it.

One this is certain, though -- the last thing that Warwick needs when serious decisions have to be made is a tax delinquent liar who can't maintain the truth from one end of a sentence to the other.