Grading major Indian River County governments in 2023: How'd Vero Beach, Sebastian fare?

Monday, February 12, 2024

A less professional board could have imploded, given the distractions it faced in 2023 from the local Moms for Liberty group.

The biggest organized distraction, in August, featured an activist preacher from North Carolina, one of dozens of local speakers demanding books be removed from schools. The preacher, invited by Moms for Liberty founder Tiffany Justice of Vero Beach, was ejected from the meeting after refusing to stop speaking.