Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed Patricia \u201cTrish\u201d Petrosky to the Lee County Board of County Commissioners.<\/p>\n
She will fill the vacant District 3 seat that had been held by Mike Greenwell, who died in October.<\/p>\n
Petrosky is an executive assistant at Evangelical Christian School, according to a release from the Governor\u2019s Office issued Friday.<\/p>\n
She previously served as a Realtor for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices in Estero and was a member of the Naples Area Board of Realtors and the Bonita Estero Realtors Association. Petrosky attended Palm Beach State College and is currently working towards her bachelor\u2019s degree from Liberty University.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among those who had applied for the seat to the governor was Amanda Cochran. Cochran, of Alva, ran against Greenwell last year in a Republican Party primary. While Cochran lost the race, she won the majority of votes from District 3. County commission seats are voted on by the entire county, not just within a commissioner\u2019s district.<\/p>\n
Petrosky will have to run again for the seat in November to retain the seat. Cochran, who has highlighted concerns about development issues, has already announced she will be running in the Republican Party primary.<\/p>\n
Cochran said she is \u201cfully committed to running in the primary\u201d which will take this summer. Cochran posted a message on Facebook following the appointment saying \u201cI believe the voters of Lee County should decide who represents them, and I will work tirelessly to prove I am your conservative choice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed Patricia \u201cTrish\u201d Petrosky to the Lee County Board of County Commissioners. She will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-84193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84193","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=84193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}