{"id":234341,"date":"2026-04-16T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234341\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:10:07","slug":"mayor-deegan-files-for-reelction-cites-progress-on-public-safety-affordability-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234341\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Deegan files for reelction, cites progress on public safety, affordability economic development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Mayor Donna Deegan will officially file paperwork on Thursday to seek re-election, citing progress on neighborhoods, public safety, affordability and economic development that the mayor said is transforming downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Deegan will announce her candidacy at the Duval Supervisor of Elections Main Office at 105 E. Monroe Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m running because I believe in a simple idea: we can build a Jacksonville that works for everyone,\u201d Deegan said. \u201cFrom day one, we built this administration by listening, hosting town halls across the city, and turning your feedback into action. We\u2019ve gotten a lot done together, and we\u2019re just getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">She said that she will pledge to continue lowering costs for Jacksonville families and ensure no neighborhood is left behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cEvery family deserves to afford a good life here in Jacksonville,\u201d she said. \u201cWe still have work to do and we\u2019re going to keep getting things done \u2014 together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Mayor Donna Deegan will officially file paperwork on Thursday to seek re-election, citing progress on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5890,1039,2715,116,118,117,43409,13983],"class_list":["post-234341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-donna-deegan","tag-duval-county","tag-elections","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-mayor-deegan","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234341","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=234341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}