Manatee County's fact-free politics

Some candidates never let the truth get in the way of what they tell the county's low information voters that are their base.

Facts can be stubborn things, especially when they have to do with numbers, but are they enough to force right-wing Manatee County commissioners and candidates to abandon their out-of-step notions about abortion and the effects of illegal immigration in the county and concentrate on issues really affecting county residents?

No, probably not, because when…