When Palm Beach County Mayor Sara Baxter and former state Rep. Katherine Waldron faced off at a lunchtime candidates forum last month, sheriff’s deputies swarmed the country club where Wellington business leaders gathered to hear the County Commission opponents speak.
There was no expectation that there would be a dustup between the Republican incumbent and her Democratic challenger for the District 6 commission seat, which represents the western reaches of the county.
It was yet another sign of County Commission times…