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Dear CrickeeRaven,

When I made the claim "Warwick has lost 5,800 taxpayers in the last ten years", I showed John Howell, Editor in Chief of the Warwick Beacon the U.S. Census numbers and the name and phone number of the guy I spoke to that walked me through it. If you don't accept those numbers, I don't care. They were accurate. How can you explain the huge loss of students if not? How can you explain the closings of so many schools if not? How can you explain all the vacant storefronts if not? The exact number changes every day but even you have to admit that Warwick has lost a HUGE amount of population. I want to get them back. All you do is criticize my efforts. That only hurts Warwick. Why don't you help?

As far as my rally, I campaigned for over 700 days in a row (almost 1,000 to date), spent over $40,000 of my own money and spoke to thousands of Warwick taxpayers. Whatever effect I had on them is what I describe as "a rally" and every City Council member told me their constituents repeated my "Cut Taxes - Cut Spending" message loud and clear and they all credited me (in varying degrees) for getting the taxpayers to demand that their elected officials "just say NO" to any new tax requests, and CrickeeRaven, that's exactly what they did. 29 times! You can call it just one HUGE coincidence (you probably will) that never happened in 18 years and just coincidentally happened right after my 700 day campaign, but the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab know better. They must be a whole lot smarter than you Mark.

Happy September everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor