Rebecca Link was sworn in as the newest member of the Fort Myers Beach Town Council on Nov. 17. Voters picked Link to replace Karen Woodson in a recall election on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
Link grew up in Pittsburgh and moved to Fort Myers Beach in 2008, according to her campaign website. The site outlines her three campaign pillars: protect the town from overdevelopment, preserve the island\u2019s character and help the business community prosper.<\/p>\n
Voters on Nov. 4 also approved a petition to recall council member John King, with Tom Brady in line to take his seat. But that decision is held up in appellate court where a judge will decide if there was ultimately sufficient evidence to recall King.<\/p>\n
The effort to recall King and Woodson, which about 63% of Fort Myers Beach voters approved, stemmed from petitions alleging Sunshine Law violations and unreported gifts tied to land-use approvals. Both council members have denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
At the Nov. 17 meeting, council members also voted for Dan Allers to continue as mayor and for Scott Safford to take over the vice mayor position from Jim Atterholt.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebecca Link was sworn in as the newest member of the Fort Myers Beach Town Council on Nov.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,1695,33684,33683,23558,33685],"class_list":["post-53671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fort-myers-beach","tag-karen-woodson","tag-rebecca-link","tag-recall-election","tag-sunshine-law-violations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}