Sarasota does not select fired transsexual as city manager

[graywarrior]

SARASOTA (AP) - Steve Stanton, fired as suburban Largo's top official two months ago after announcing plans to become Susan Stanton, hoped this more cosmopolitan tourist town was ready for a transgendered city manager. It wasn't -- the city commission today picked a less controversial candidate.

"I just don't think the world is ready just yet," Stanton said as he made a hasty exit from Sarasota City Hall.

The five commissioners hired Robert Bartolotta, 59, who resigned as city manager in the South Florida city of Jupiter in 2004 to care for his terminally ill wife. She has since died. Their second choice was Marsha Segal-George, 54, a deputy chief administrator in Orlando. Stanton was the third finalist.

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http://www.sun-herald.com/breakingnews.cfm?id=2242

[SteppingRazor]

1. Eh, I wouldn't necessarily attribute it to the transgender...

Jupiter is a bigger city, has experienced huge growth over the past couple years, and has grown quickly while managing to avoid the urban-sprawl look of most of this overdeveloped wing of the world. Anyone who can pull that off is probably a good candidate for city manager. Also, it's not as though Stanton finished dead last. For example, I know for a fact that Sunrise's city manager placed behind her, as well as several other candidates, per this story:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=NEWS1208&template=ovr2