GUEST COLUMN | It's time for residents to take back Manatee County

Former county commissioner Betsy Benac writes that developer-backed commission and administrator Scott Hopes are mismanaging the county government in the wrong direction.

By Betsy Benac / Special to The Bradenton Journal

As a Manatee County resident with a long history of service to the county, including serving as assistant planning director,  an appointed member of the  Board of Zoning Appeals and an elected two-term at-large county commissioner, as well as serving many of the great non-profits in the county, I am extre…