The City Commission of Largo has voted, again 5-2, to terminate Steve Stanton as city manager.
Here's the St. Petersburg Times blow by blow: http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2007/03/largo_police_cl.html
Best quote: "After six hours of speakers, commissioners take less than five minutes to reaffirm a decision to fire Steve Stanton."
Here's Tampa Bay Online's story: http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBULLVJNZE.html
The National Center for Lesbian Rights, Equality Florida, the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Human Rights Campaign, the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force issued a statement, which you can find here:
http://nclrights.org/releases/st-lgbt_stanton_florida032307.htm
Here's a colorful post by someone who was in Largo: "Was it the dude holding up a poster board scribbled with the word faggot or the rusty red pick up truck with a full-sized Confederate flag waving from its bed rolling down the streets of Largo that made me a little nervous?
http://www.blurbex.com/2007/03/this_cant_be_no.html
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