Below you will find information from the City of Winter Park web site regarding the upcoming election and candidate forums. Get to know the candidates. Get to know the issues. Be sure to vote! Regards, Pete Weldon _________________________ 2015 Election Schedule General election will be held Tuesday, March 10, 2015. For more municipal election information, please contact the City Clerk’s office at 407-599-3277 or email cityclerk@cityofwinterpark.org. For absentee ballots, contact the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office at 407-836-2070. For Orange County election information in general, please visit Orange County Supervisor of Elections Upcoming Candidate Forums Tuesday, February 10, from…
Category: Election 2015
Partisan Fallout
There is an uproar about partisanship in the Winter Park mayoral election. The facts point to Mackinnon being less than forthright. Here is the time line and documents I have found: January 5, 2015: The Orange County Democratic Party explicitly endorses Mackinnon. (Here is a copy should they remove the link.) January 23, 2015: The Orange County Republican Party makes a point of Mackinnon’s contributions to the 2012 Obama campaign in an email and then follows up with a post card. January 26: Mackinnon implies her opponent “a candidate” is the one being partisan and illegally so. Mackinnon says, “Did…
Our Choice For Mayor
February 22, 2015 Dear Fellow Winter Park Voter, CLICK LINKS BELOW TO ACCESS SOURCE MATERIAL. I am a Winter Park resident committed to reasoned governance for our city. I am paying for this letter with my money. I have served on city boards for eight years, having been a member of the city’s Code Enforcement Board, and currently serving on both the Tree Preservation Board and Planning and Zoning Board. While elections tend to be emotionally driven and lack substance, I hold Winter Park to a higher standard; a standard based on knowledge of the circumstances, policy substance, and results. Based…
History of Recent Development Approvals
I document the history of several recent Winter Park development approvals below (click links for source material). As a member of the Winter Park Planning and Zoning Board I thought it important that voters have a factual frame of reference so as to not be confused by false narratives and “whisper” campaigns that always seem to show up during election season. If you are frustrated by the 4 story apartment buildings on Denning you can blame the commission in place in 2006, not the current commission. CNL Office at Denning and Morse. This three story 88,000 square foot office building…