A fourth candidate has announced his candidacy for an at-large seats on the Sarasota City Commission. Local business leader and community advocate John Harshman will join incumbent Jen Ahearn-Koch and two other challengers for two seats on the five-member commission, one being vacated by one-term commissioner Debbie Trice, who is serving as mayor this year.
In addition to Ahern-Koch, he joins a field that includes Flo Entler and Rob Rominiecki. Two other candidates who filed to run, Sherman Baldwin and Michael Bennett, have withdrawn their candidacy.
Like the commission’s three district seats, at-large commissioners serve four-year terms…