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WwkVoter, it's really proof of his defects as a candidate [and now former candidate after his blowout loss in September] that the two-time election reject continues to repeat his lies:

"Warwick lost thousands of businesses."

This is objectively false.

For the benefit of readers who value honesty, here is the factual and provably correct data about Warwick's business sector, excerpted from this article and already posted in multiple other comment threads on this site: http://warwickpost.com/numbers-game-corrente-claims-of-lost-businesses-dont-add-up/

1.: [W]hile the Census showed 8,410 firms in 2007 in Warwick, updated numbers from the U.S. Census showed 8,299 firms in the city as of 2012 — a difference of 111.

2.: [T]he Rhode Island Secretary of State reported 4,485 businesses in Warwick in an email to the city dated July 20, 2016 that she provided to the Post — a net increase of 735 since Corrente last gathered information from that department.

3.: The city’s numbers, reflected in an April 13, 2015 response to Corrente’s public records request and furnished to the Post, show yet another trend: A net gain of 98 businesses from 2007 through 2012 [3,835 to 3,933], and a total of 3,844 reported in 2014. Overall, that means the city added a net of nine businesses between 2007 and 2014.

4.: What is clear from a correct review of the data is that whatever the methodology, none of the reporting entities — the city, the state, or the U.S. Census — show anything near the 4,666 lost businesses since 2007 that Corrente is claiming.

So, the two-time election reject dishonestly compared data from two sources -- because they use different definitions of what counts as a business -- and then still falsely claims that the city "lost thousands of businesses."

WwkVoter, it is a mystery why the two-time election reject continues to repeat this lie, except to satisfy a pathetic need for attention -- and in that case, he is as much of a failure as he has been in running for office, since the only attention he has received has been negative, as he continues to willingly and repeatedly humiliate himself with his false claims.