{"id":248715,"date":"2026-04-27T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/248715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:52:15","slug":"charlie-crist-former-governor-to-run-for-st-pete-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/248715\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Crist, former governor, to run for St. Pete mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has filed to run for St. Petersburg mayor.<\/p>\n<p>He filled out the paperwork Monday afternoon at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Crist was governor from 2007-11, then served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017-22.<\/p>\n<p>In that role, he represented the state\u2019s 13th District.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Mayor Ken Welch has filed to keep the post. He took office in 2022, replacing Rick Kriseman.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete Councilwoman Brandi Gabbard has thrown her name into the running, along with community activist Maria Scrubbs.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Batdorf, Paul Congemi and Jim Large have also filed to run.<\/p>\n<p>The election will be on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has filed to run for St. Petersburg mayor. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3140,274,115,596,99,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-248715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pinellas-county","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","14":"tag-st-pete","15":"tag-st-pete-headlines","16":"tag-st-pete-news","17":"tag-st-petersburg","18":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","19":"tag-st-petersburg-news","20":"tag-tampa","21":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248715","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=248715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}