Although he is running for Manatee County’s District 6 at-large commission seat, Ed Ference said he’s never been a politician.
Ference was a public servant for 30 years in Manatee County’s Utilities Department, and if elected, he said he will continue to consider himself to be a public servant.
Ference said he noticed a change in the county’s governance following the 2020 election. He said commissioners were serving special interests over the people. He would go home and talk to his wife of 34 years, Jennifer Ference, about his concerns, but he wouldn’t speak to anyone else…