BY MIKE VOGEL/FLORIDA TREND MAGAZINE
Pulling up to the city-owned electric plant on the Indian River waterfront, an unsentimental Craig Fletcher reminisces about the power plant called “Big Blue.” “I was just out of high school when they put this No. 1 tower up there,” says Fletcher, a 1960 graduate of Vero Beach High.
Nowadays, Fletcher is the city’s mayor, a mayor on a mission: Sell the city-owned electric utility to NextEra Energy’s Florida Power & Light and see Big Blue leveled. “All anyone ever says is, ‘You’ll never make it — you’ll never make it happen. You’ll never get there,’ ” Fletcher says.
They have reason for skepticism. Selling a city-owned electric utility is all but unprecedented in Florida. And it may stay that way; Vero’s proposed sale to FPL is far from a done deal.
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Indian River Guardian 
Fla. Trend fails to mention that Fletcher is not an elected mayor, making it sound like he speaks for the voters. He doesn’t. This is the kind of attention Fletcher loves, pretending to be so important and knowledgable, and the magazine does no fact-checking to contradict his statements. I would have hoped for a more balanced report but I guess FPL does a lot of advertising these days in media. $$$ once again talks.
Lynne Larkin