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Here, WwkVoter and Cat, allow me to -- again -- disprove the make-believe mayor's claims about changes in Warwick's population and school enrollment while using direct and easily-verifiable information.

Between 2008 and 2017, the Census reported a change from 84,756 to 80,871, or 3,885.The 2007 figure was 85,085, or 4,215 more than 2017, taken directly from U.S. Census data and not some anonymous "person" that the make-believe mayor claims he contacted: https://bit.ly/2slKIKd.

As you can see [and as the make-believe mayor tries to hard to ignore], neither of those figures is 5,800.

"[F]rom a high of over 17,000 [students] to present which is exactly 8,606..."

Whatever he claims "Kathy" at the school department told him [which is, typically for him, not supported by any verifiable data], the state Department of Education reported a 2017-18 October enrollment of 8,953: http://infoworks.ride.ri.gov/district/warwick

Data provided by the Rhode Island State Department of Education shows that Warwick's October school enrollment in 2007-08 was 11,139 -- not 17,000 -- meaning the reduction in students from 2009 through the current year is 2,186 -- not 8,500. Here is a link directly to Department of Ed enrollment figures: http://www.eride.ri.gov/reports/reports.asp

The make-believe mayor will no doubt argue that since his imaginary figure is more recent, it is more accurate. However, any comparison he attempts to make with historical data would be wrong unless he specifically provided the reported enrollment in June of prior years. Further compounding the defects in his statements is the fact that the school population has not been 17,000 since the 1970s, meaning the make-believe mayor is trying to conflate decades-old statistics with more recent changes in the student population.

"I brought them documented proof including the name and phone number of the person I spoke to at the U.S. Census for verification. That was when they printed my statistics."

No, the Beacon attributed the false numbers to a claim by the make-believe mayor and did not independently verify the data. Here is, specifically, how the Beacon reported it: "Over 5,000 taxpayers and over 4,000 businesses have left the city in the last 10 years, he claimed."

http://warwickonline.com/stories/debate-defines-differences,118946?

The Beacon's reporting could only be claimed as proof by the make-believe mayor, when in fact the paper did not state that it had independently verified the information.

"[I]t's nicer to have our taxes go down..."

First, we have already seen how the make-believe mayor consistently fails to explain the costs of his plans to lower taxes -- in this case, the increased need to clean the beaches because more people are using them. And second, he espouses a different way to lower one's taxes -- simply don't pay them, lose one's home to tax sale, and let other parties pay the property taxes and sewer/water fees.

Thank you for continuing to point out the many defect with the make-believe mayor's candidacy. I look forward to joining you and thousands of honest, taxpaying voters in overwhelmingly rejecting him again this year.