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Acting Mayor Joe Solomon gave his word to attend that debate and then he flip-flopped...again. That is a lack of integrity. The Mayor of Warwick MUST give his/her word and keep it above all. For the record, I will debate him anywhere, anytime. Please set the date. I will be there and I bet Mr. Carbone will as well. Solomon is afraid to debate me. He has the support of the political insiders but NOT the taxpayers. He just slapped the taxpayers with the largest tax increase allowed by law, while the taxes on his own property keep going DOWN! His car dealership at 1129 West Shore Rd. has an assessed value that is LESS than he paid for it 29 YEARS AGO!!!!! He is paying a fraction of the real estate taxes that he should be paying. He "claims" he lives at 180 Shawomet in order to represent Ward 4, but he lied. He really lives at 21 Crawford which went up in tax assessed value only $4,400 in the last 2 years while every one of his neighbors homes on Crawford went up an average of over $38,000!!!!! (The lowest is $21,700 and the highest is $61,100.) Again, Joe is paying far less than he should be. And that house at 180 Shawomet? It went DOWN in tax assessed value by $25,700 while the neighbors went UP by similar amounts. Joe also has a home at 54 Hess that went DOWN in tax assessed value by $39,700, so if you want your taxes to go UP while Joe Solomon has HIS taxes taxes go DOWN, VOTE FOR SOLOMON. He wants everyone in Warwick to pay MORE so he can pay LESS. Look up YOUR taxes on the Warwick Tax Assessors Database and know that, as Mayor, I won't tolerate this theft. I will have the appraisal company (Vision Technologies) that evaluates the entire City (commercial and residential) send their findings-of-value to The Warwick Beacon. THEN, the beacon can push "forward" and transfer those findings to the City. THEN, we will have a perfect system of checks-and-balances that saves the taxpayers thousands of dollars, makes EVERYONE pay their fair share, and DOESN'T COST THE TAXPAYERS A DIME!!! And the added tax revenue will make it possible to "Cut Taxes" on the rest of us.

Happy Autumn everyone

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor