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See, MisterP? This is the kind of thing that you are implicitly supporting when you complain about how the rest of us respond to the make-believe mayor -- he just replies, again, with a list of false statements.

Cat, don't fall for his pathetic attempt to bully you. He's going to lose this race, and somewhere in his addled brain, he realizes it -- but he just can't restrain himself from making a humiliating spectacle of himself until the inevitable happens and he is defeated.

For the benefit of other readers, allow me to -- again -- thoroughly disprove his pathetic claims.

"I am repeating my WINNING formula of 2016."

He lost the vote, 65-35%. That is not a win.

"[W]hen Avedisian tried to raise taxes 29 times he was defeated each time."

This is a lie. The city council proposed 29 amendments to the budget that reduced it by $750,000 while increasing overall spending by $6.5 million.

"The taxpayers saved hundreds of thousands of dollars..."

This is a lie. The FY18 budget ended with a $4.2 million deficit that the FY19 budget had to cover as part of the state law-capped maximum tax increase that the city council approved.

As he has so often before, the make-believe mayor is lying about his role in the FY18 budget, the city council's actual votes, and the results of the last two city budgets, which are higher taxes and spending.

"sign theft..."

This is a lie. Political signs left on public property can be removed by anyone, at any time. Thecaptain has proven this fact, and the Warwick Police Department has confirmed it.

"non-credibility of a screen name..."

The make-believe mayor has given himself a fake title that he neither earned nor deserves -- and none of the facts presented are any less true because the people presenting them use pseudonyms.

"Expecting a different result."

By now, no one expects the make-believe mayor to do anything but make an utter fool of himself -- and he has willingly obliged, time and time again.

All of the commenters who have routinely proven the make-believe mayor to be a liar and tax delinquent expect that honest, taxpaying voters will reject him again this year -- the exact same thing we expected in 2016. It is a certainty that the result will not be any different from two years ago.