COMMENTARY
“Essentially, Turner said the FMPA is to blame for refusing to violate its bond covenants in order to let her and a number of other overgrown spoiled brats have their way.”
MARK SCHUMANN
In terms of the damage she has inflicted on the City of Vero Beach, Councilwoman Pilar Turner’s reign on the City Council is eclipsed only by that of Tracy Carroll.
Turner was at it again today, when she went on radio claiming the Indian River County Commission’s complaint with the Florida Public Service Commission and the Indian River Shores Town Council’s ill-advised decision to take the City of Vero Beach to court will be “devastating to our financial future.”
Coming from Turner, that statement sounded less like a dire warning that it did her wishful thinking. Absent from Turner’s comments was any assurance she is prepared to lift so much as a finger to defend her city. But that should come as no surprise to anyone. From the day Turner took her seat at the dais, she has seemed focused on weakening the City’s utilities, cutting City services, destroying morale among City employees, and fostering animus and disrespect among her fellow Council members.
As if she was reading from talking points handed to her by FPL’s public relations wizards, Turner was critical, not of the County Commission or of the Shores Town Council, but of the Florida Municipal Power Agency. Essentially, Turner said the FMPA is to blame for refusing to violate its bond covenants in order to let her and a number of other overgrown spoiled brats have their way.
If Turner’s name is on the ballot in November, Vero Beach voters will have to decide between protecting and preserving the community or allowing Turner to continue running Vero Beach into the ground.
Indian River Guardian 
So here we finally are, a lawsuit from the Township of Indian River Shores and a warning by Councilwoman Turner. Is the Township along with Turner spinning their wheels, or have Vero’s good neighbors from Indian River Shores finally put a legal question mark on the ridiculous electric rates. What should be more interesting is what platform the candidates will choose to be re-elected: and what the challengers will propose now that the Electric Sale is off and that the real problems will be many and finally have to be dealt with. Not being a city resident I have a ringside seat to what appears to be an interesting Chess match come November, Roosevelt said it well” all we have to fear is fear itself!”.