Manatee County politics is a disaster zone. Only the voters can fix it

After commission vote to lessen protection of wetlands, it is beyond time for voters to break developers' grip on local politics.

I am not going to rehash the developer-funded travesty that was the Manatee County Commission meeting Thursday, at which six developer-funded commissioners, leaning on advice provided by a formerly developer-funded consultant, moved to roll back the county’s wetlands protection rules to a lesser standard required by the state. Other media — like the Her…