The candidates in a screen capture from the News-Journal’s social media video of the forum at Buddy Taylor Middle School. From left, Carol Bacha, David Alfin, Kathy Austrino, Doug Courtney, Alan Lowe and Cornelia Manfre.
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Palm Coast’s six candidates for mayor gathered Monday evening for the last and most-attended forum ahead of the July 27 special election. The election has been well under way, with voting by mail started weeks ago and early voting starting last Saturday. As of today, 10,000 ballots had already been cast, most by mail, representing 14 percent of the electorate.
The forum was held at the Buddy Taylor Middle School cafeteria, was sponsored by the News-Journal, and moderated by Pat Rice, the paper’s editor. It was revelatory in small ways. With several previous forums’ practice behind them, the six candidates–David Alfin, Kathy Austrino, Carol Bacha, Doug Courtney, Alan Lowe and Cornelia Manfre–were comfortable and at times on auto
During the meeting, an angry Danko also said as soon as a mayor is elected to the city council he would make a motion to fire interim city manager Denise Bevan because she has kept open what he described as a baseless case accusing him of interfering with city employees. He also said he would move to fire city attorney William Reischmann, whom Danko accused of lying to him.
Palm Coast controversies
Danko s comments at the end of Tuesday s city council meeting are the latest in a steady stream of controversy connected to Palm Coast City Hall over the past two years.