GOP Chair Resigns to concentrate on his Palm Beach County Commission seat

Palm Beach County GOP chair Michael Barnett resigns

will seek commission seat

Barnett is a known Trump ally who was appointed to the county commission by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Barnett announced his resignation from the two-year term as party chair on Monday evening. Barnett was re-elected in December to the post he has held since 2014. But at roughly the same time, he was appointed to fill the commission vacancy created when Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped Commissioner Dave Kerner to lead the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

“It's not something that I was even really thinking was possible, but the governor was gracious enough to make this appointment,” Barnett said of DeSantis' decision to name him to fill Kerner's seat. “So when you're faced with a different set of facts, you have to make different decisions.”

The Palm Beach Post