Government and Politics
The City of Lake Wales has a commission-manager form of government where the commission makes executive decisions and the city manager is charged with carrying them out. Lake Wales has 5 commissioners representing five different city districts, although they are elected at-large by all city voters. The commissioners are elected for 4 year terms. In 2008, Lake Wales caused somewhat of a stir by electing former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan John Paul Rogers as District 5 city commissioner. Ironically, Rogers' campaign manager was an African-American who spearheaded a large absentee ballot drive among elderly blacks to vote for Rogers.
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