CITRUS EAGLE

By John Labriola -  A 66-year-old Hernando man got a Thanksgiving-eve knock on his door from the sheriff's office after sending Citrus County Commissioner Holly Davis an email challenging her on her LGBT activism in strong terms. On Nov. 23, B. James Colantropo emailed Davis in response to her shocking remarks at the last county commission meeting, in which she appeared to advocate for homosexual grooming of children in the county libraries .  "Rest assured that the good people of this county will not stand by and let you get away with your leftist agenda," Colantropo wrote. He then added: "Count your days because they are numbered." The next morning, two sheriff's detectives showed up at Colantropo's door. "They wanted to know what my intentions were, as they said my email could be construed as threatening," said Colantropo, who explained to them that his words were meant politically, not as a physical threat.  "Basically they understood ...

By John Labriola - The Citrus County Commission's annual reorganizational vote will take place at 1 p.m. at the Nov. 30 county commission meeting. The five-member commission will decide who will serve as the commission's next chair, a position that rotates among commissioners every year. The selection of a chair  –  who presides over commission meetings and signs various documents authorized by the commission  –  is ordinarily a fairly routine matter that doesn't generate much discussion or debate. But this year's chair election has exposed fault lines on the commission that reveal the alarming extent to which certain commissioners may be controlled by powerful special interests and liberal elites in the community who want to run the county behind the scenes.  The chairmanship normally goes to whoever has held the position of First Vice Chair over the preceding 12 months. The current First Vice Chair is Commissioner Ron Kitchen, but at the Nov. 9 commission meet...