Dist 2 PBC Commissioner Gregg Weiss Challenged By Republican Jeffrey Skene

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The midterm elections are exactly five weeks from today and our Election Spotlight focuses on the race for the Palm Beach County Commission District 2 seat.

Incumbent, Democrat Gregg Weiss, is being challenged by Republican Jeffrey Skene.

Skene says he was asked by local Republican Party leaders to run after a previous candidate dropped out just before the registration deadline.

Skene is retired after many years of running his family business and says that too many small businesses were hurt in the name of COVID closures.

"We destroyed this economy. Now look where we are now. You can't have the cure worse than the disease and that's the way we went. They went overboard. Too much control."

Weiss answers to that...

"I think our Board really relied on the experts, the scientists, the medical experts, the healthcare experts as to the steps that we needed to take. If you recall, in the beginning stages of COVID we knew very very little."

Weiss touts his work on the commission to help clean up area waterways.

"I serve as a member of the Lake Worth Lagoon Initiative and also on the county's Water Resource Task Force. For the first time ever, working in conjunction with the South Florida Water Management District, we have real time water-monitoring going on in the lagoon."

He also takes credit for helping to extend broadband internet to underserved families so kids are able to do school work from home.

Skene says too much taxpayer money is being spent by the commission.

"Typical of the opposition, they get power and they want to spend spend and tax tax. It's got to be spend within your limits. You just can't keep taxing and taxing and taxing."

He says that even though the Commission has voted to lower the millage rate "very little," it's still "way above where it should be."


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