Inside the ‘Beacon of Light’ Life & Sudden Death of Mayor Who Suffered Brain Aneurysm on the Way to Work
“When I grow up, I want to be a mayor now because I want to finish his road. He was going down a road, and he was helping everybody go down that road, too, and I want to finish that for him.”
But McCrater says his efforts went well beyond that. He led the addition of a kid-friendly splash pad to the local Mickel Park in response to many parents’ requests and drove the implementation of the “I Led the Pledge” program whereby students from Wilton Manors Elementary would tour the police department and lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the Commission meeting.
“He [Flippen] never served, but you would think he did because of how effusive and supportive he was of veterans and sacrifice,” he adds. He began his career as an executive aide in the Broward County government and, in 2008, he was elected city commissioner for Wilton Mayors. “I was completely shaken and finding it hard to believe,” Sorensen says, “I just wanted to be with him and pray for him.”
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