… We just need to take our city back over and be Apopka proud again.” “Wish we didn’t have to come to this but he forced it. He’s let us all down,” Woodham said on the video. Retired Apopka firefighter Guy “Ace” Woodham posted a video Saturday on the Facebook page, “Recall Bryan Nelson,” inviting registered voters to drive to his home and sign the petition to recall the mayor. “My team manages the finances based on the Council’s agreed budget and I represent the City on multiple local and state boards.” “My role as ‘Strong Mayor’ is to carry out the policies that City Council approves even if I voted in opposition I bring all Director positions forward to City Council to be approved but firing any and all employees is at my discretion,” Nelson wrote. The wants-to-be-dictator claim “does not deserve a response but I will give you one,” Nelson wrote in a two-page rebuttal he provided recently to the Orlando Sentinel and the Apopka Chief, the city’s weekly newspaper. The petition cites other controversies, alleging Nelson “wants to be dictator.” The firefighter’s death - and the mayor’s handling of the aftermath - ignited the group’s ire, which often erupted during the public-comment period at Apopka City Council meetings. Post-accident reviews pointed out Duran hadn’t been trained to move the unwieldy trailer.
The document’s 183-word “statement of grounds” allege that Nelson “refuses to hold anyone accountable for the death of Austin Duran,” a 25-year-old firefighter fatally injured last summer in an on-duty accident.ĭuran was attempting to move a trailer of sand that tipped and crushed him. Apopka Firefighter Austin Duran (Courtesy photo) The petitions accuse him of lying, malfeasance and misfeasance, charges he has denied.
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