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Dear Readers,

CrickeeeRaven lied...again.

PLEASE go on the Warwick Tax Assessors web site and look up 6 Crawford as I used that address in my example. I showed that EVERY house on Crawford went up in assessed value over the last two years (2015 - 2017) an average of $38,080. (5 other houses plus Joe's). That statement was 100% true. I said that 6 Crawford went up $21,700 over the last two years (2015 - 2017). That statement was 100% true. PLEASE double check my findings! I compared all of the houses on Crawford to Joe Solomon's house at 21 Crawford and I printed them just in case. That's where he has lived for many years even though he "claims" to live at 180 Shawomet . That way he can represent Ward 4 even though he actually lives in Ward 5. You will notice that CrickeeRaven has no problem with this highly unethical decision on Solomons part. CrickeeRaven deceitfully used a different timeframe to con the reader into believing I misquoted. I used 2015 to 2017 to compare the values of ALL the houses on Crawford. My findings? EVERY other house on the street went UP IN ASSESED VALUE BY a minimum of $21,700 to a maximum of $61,100! Every other house except, of course Joe Solomons. HIS ONLY WENT UP $4,400 AND IT'S ON NARRAGANSETT BAY!!! I also commented that he owns a car dealership at 1129 West Shore Rd. That commercial building ONLY ASSESSES FOR $168,900, LESS THAN HE PAID FOR IT 29 years ago!!!!! Today he is selling it for more than three times the tax assessed value. There's more! He also owns 54 Hess. That assessed value went DOWN from 2015 - 2017 by $39,700. And what about that house at 180 Shawomet? That property also, somehow, went DOWN in assessed value from 2015 to 2017 by a whopping $25,700 and it is ON NARRAGANSETT BAY!! Maybe this is all one gigantic coincidence. Maybe, but A LOT of people don't think so!

For the record, I also compared every other City Council member and found their homes to be EXACTLY in line with their neighbors. Just not Joe Solomon.

For the record, I called Vision Technologies and learned that they will be doing a new assessment of the entire city in December 2018. Steve told me that they would be happy to deliver their findings to a neutral third party such as The Warwick Beacon who could then transfer the information to Warwick City Hall with the pressing of a button. That way there would be total transparency of the true values. No one could tamper with the assessments before the tax bills went out. No one could pull the kind of Dirty Tricks people like me are accusing certain politicians of doing. (In the 2016 election I noted that Avedisians house went DOWN in assessed value by the same amount as my house went UP.) This is exactly the kind of Dirty Tricks Politics that has plagued Warwick for about 20 years. It's time for that crap to come to an end and my idea won't cost the taxpayers a dime.

Speaking of the taxpayers "dime" I was given a list of over a thousand people in Warwick that owe OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH on their water bills. When Joe Solomon brings them a "Solomon Mayor" sign they can't refuse to display it. As Mayor, I will make sure these political insiders will receive a bill. When they finally pay their fair share, the rest of us will pay LESS! That's not the way it is today, but it will be after the election.

Lastly, I don't mind constructive criticism, in fact I welcome it, but what CrickeeRaven is spewing is "destructive criticism". It benefits no one. It's full of "facts" that are impossible to be true and it only attacks me, not my opponent. How can anyone believe that this anonymous critic isn't a henchman for Joe Solomon? Dirty Tricks politics.

Fake news. Fake sources. Fake people. Fake names.

Happy August everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor