{"id":213717,"date":"2026-03-31T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213717\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:45:07","slug":"stuart-martin-county-chamber-of-commerce-ceo-apologizes-for-controversial-social-media-comment-on-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213717\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart-Martin County Chamber of Commerce CEO apologizes for controversial social media comment on Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The CEO of the Stuart-Martin County Chamber of Commerce is apologizing after posting a controversial comment on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We started getting emails into our newsroom this afternoon regarding the comment made by Chamber CEO Joseph Catrambone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH WPTV&#8217;S COVERAGE BELOW:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An initial post on LinkedIn announced the Trump administration\u2019s Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s moves to end testing on beagles, chimpanzees, monkeys and rabbits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;Allow it on Dems,&#8221; Catrambone said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A viewer called the comment hate speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;That is not a nice response for a chamber person and a supposed leader,&#8221; a developer of youth programs said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">I reached Catrambone by phone. He apologized and said he will take the comment down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;Shame on me,&#8221; Catrambone said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">I also reached incoming Chamber Board Chairman Eric Kiehn, who looked at the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;I believe we will be having a discussion regarding this at our next meeting,&#8221; Kiehn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As of the time of publication, the post from Catrambone was still up on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO of the Stuart-Martin County Chamber of Commerce is apologizing after posting a controversial comment on social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-213717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213717","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=213717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}