{"id":124271,"date":"2026-01-19T23:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/124271\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:37:23","slug":"anna-eskamani-hits-1m-fundraising-milestone-for-orlando-mayor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/124271\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Eskamani hits $1M fundraising milestone for Orlando Mayor race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Anna Eskamani<\/a> says she has raised more than $1 million so far as she tries to become the next Orlando Mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Orlando Democrat says she hit the milestone last week as lawmakers returned to Tallahassee for the start of the 2026 Legislative Session.<\/p>\n

Term-limited in the House, Eskamani is running in 2027 to replace Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, who is not running for re-election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis campaign is powered by everyday Orlandoans who believe our city can be more affordable, more connected, and safer for everyone,\u201d Eskamani said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cRaising over one million dollars from thousands of grassroots donors sends a clear message: people are ready for leadership that listens, leads with integrity, solves problems, and puts community first. Together, we\u2019re building a movement that reflects the heart of Orlando and delivers real results for working families.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Her campaign has given out 900 yard signs and knocked on more than 33,000 doors in the city, according to a press release.<\/p>\n

So far, no other established candidates have filed to run against Eskamani, although she has drawn her first competitor on the ballot: Abdelnasser Lutfi.<\/p>\n

Lutfi, who filed to run for Mayor in late December, was not immediately available when reached for comment Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Eskamani and Lutfi are running to replace Dyer, the longest-serving Mayor in Orlando\u2019s history. Dyer was first elected in 2003.<\/p>\n

Eskamani also said she is launching a podcast called \u201cTwinning with Anna and Ida<\/a>\u201d with her twin sister.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery episode<\/a> will unpack economic public policy issues that are critically important to everyone, but aren\u2019t always well understood by the vast majority of people \u2014 often because they have been made intentionally opaque by politicians and the corporations who fund them to benefit from the complex system,\u201d a press release said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they will also have some fun along the way, from exposing a \u2018grift of the month\u2019 in Florida politics to exploring the punk rock scene in Orlando.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Anna Eskamani says she has raised more than $1 million so far as she tries to become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[61686,2217,8132,139,141,10626,140],"class_list":["post-124271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-abdelnasser-lutfi","tag-anna-eskamani","tag-buddy-dyer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-mayor","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}