{"id":128777,"date":"2026-01-23T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128777\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:01:10","slug":"aileen-rodriguez-to-kick-off-campaign-with-support-from-kathy-castor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128777\/","title":{"rendered":"Aileen Rodriguez to kick off campaign with support from Kathy Castor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t2<\/p>\n<p>Aileen Rodriguez, who is challenging Republican Hillsborough County Commissioner Joshua Wostal this election cycle, is officially <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/775148-aileen-rodriguez-to-kick-off-campaign-with-support-from-kathy-castor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">kicking off her campaign<\/a> next week.<\/p>\n<p>The event features U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor as a special guest, as well as a host committee that includes myriad community stakeholders, ranging from elected officials, business leaders and political activists to current and former candidates for office.<\/p>\n<p>The kickoff is Wednesday, Jan. 28, at J.C. Newman Cigar Company, located at 2701 N. 16th St. in Tampa, 5:30-7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Castor endorsed Rodriguez earlier this month, saying she appreciates her \u201cwillingness to step forward and serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Janelle Irwin, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 Aileen Rodriguez, who is challenging Republican Hillsborough County Commissioner Joshua Wostal this election cycle, is officially kicking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-128777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128777","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=128777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}