Pahokee Commission meeting erupts into screaming match
Commissioners who sought to oust city attorney get their wish
Residents who spoke with Channel 5 off-camera believe this has everything to do with race.
and last updated 2021-07-19 23:45:42-04
PAHOKEE, Fla. â Pahokee Commissioner Sara Perez is heated.
"I won with 65% of the votes and I'm doing what the citizens that supported me wanted me to do," she said.
She's unhappy because Mayor Keith Babb adjourned Monday night's commission meeting just as it fell into chaos.
"This happens every week," she said. "That's why we could never get no business done."
Here's why things went haywire at the meeting. Commissioners Perez, Juan Gonzalez and Regina Bohlen decided they wanted to terminate the contract of City Attorney Burnadette Norris-Weeks.