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Activist joins County Commission race
By BRIDGET HALL GRUMET, Times Staff Writer INVERNESS -- Cynthia "Cindy" Cino, an outspoken advocate on various school and community issues, announced Tuesday that she would challenge County Commissioner Gary Bartell for the District 2 seat. Cino is framing her campaign around growth -- not stopping it, but planning and in some cases retrofitting for it. "People keep talking about stopping growth," said Cino, standing next to a pink lawn flamingo that is her campaign symbol for the Florida beauty that continues to attract newcomers. "Growth is already here." Cino said the county needs to widen Grover Cleveland Boulevard (or "Chicken Farm Road," as she and other longtime residents call it), consider building a county swimming pool, and prepare a transportation master plan showing which roads should be widened or built over the next 25 years. She criticized Bartell for not advocating any of those ideas. "I think I can do better," Cino told about a dozen family and friends outside the Historic Courthouse Tuesday, where she announced her candidacy. "God knows I can't do any worse." Cino is a state committeewoman for the Democratic Party and wife of Joe Cino, the chairman of the local Democratic Executive Committee. In 2000, she sought a seat on the School Board but lost to incumbent Patience Nave in the nonpartisan race. She ran unsuccessfully for the School Board in 1990 and also sought but did not win a seat on the Inverness City Council that year. Cino and Bartell, a Republican seeking his fourth term on the commission, so far are the only candidates in this race. District 2 includes Homosassa, Sugarmill Woods and the southwestern part of the county, but commissioners are elected countywide.
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