Commissioner Holly Davis reveals she is a puppet of "influential" pressure groups and individuals
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...