{"id":238914,"date":"2026-04-20T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238914\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:38:09","slug":"lieutenant-gov-holds-press-conference-on-gubernatorial-campaign-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238914\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieutenant Gov. holds press conference on gubernatorial campaign in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Florida Lieutenant Gov. Jay Collins is holding a press conference regarding his gubernatorial campaign in St. Petersburg on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Collins is scheduled to speak at 9:30 a.m. at the Urban Stillhouse on April 20.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay 28 will be at the event and stream it live on the<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/live2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> website<\/a> and<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tampabaynews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH LIVE: Lieutenant Gov. holds press conference on gubernatorial campaign in St. Pete<\/p>\n<p>Collins was appointed Lieutenant Governor by Gov. Ron DeSantis in August 2025 and announced he was running for governor this past<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/state\/lieutenant-gov-jay-collins-is-running-to-be-floridas-next-governor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KATIE.LAGRONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some Moms for Liberty leaders resign, claiming group\u2019s focus has shifted<\/p>\n<p>Original chapter chairs say the parental rights group is plagued by infighting and has abandoned grassroots education issues for politics and money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel like we were used&#8217;: Some Moms for Liberty leaders resign, claiming group\u2019s focus has shifted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Florida Lieutenant Gov. Jay Collins is holding a press conference regarding his gubernatorial campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,105907,16660,105908,5187,105906,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-238914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-abc-action-news","tag-florida-govenor","tag-governors-race","tag-gubernatorial-campaign","tag-jay-collins","tag-lieutenant-gov-jay-collins","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238914","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=238914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}