TampaBay.com – By Lorri Helfand, Times Staff Writer
Ask Andy Guyette about his most trying times as a city commissioner and of course he mentions Steve Stanton. “It was the hardest period of my life outside of my father’s death,” said Guyette, 50, who resigned last week to take a job in Huntsville, Ala.
Early last year, the news that Stanton planned to have a sex-change operation turned Largo City Hall into the center ring of a media circus.
Commissioners got thousands of e-mails. TV satellite trucks took over the parking lot. Hundreds of protesters packed City Commission meetings.