{"id":252958,"date":"2026-04-30T20:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:41:08","slug":"stuart-mayor-christopher-collins-resigns-to-run-for-martin-county-commission-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252958\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Mayor Christopher Collins resigns to run for Martin County commission seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stuart Mayor Christopher Collins has resigned from his position with the city of Stuart and has announced his run for Martin County Commission District 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Collins submitted his resignation to the city of Stuart and made the announcement in a Facebook <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1523206256162669\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His run for office comes months after being appointed mayor. Commissioner Campbell Rich raised questions during a commission meeting <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/region-martin-county\/stuart\/stuart-appoints-new-mayor-and-vice-mayor-prompting-mixed-reactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>, tied to speculation about Collins\u2019 political future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf the mayor is running, seeking election to a higher office,\u201d Rich said. \u201cHe, in fact, is going to have to resign fairly shortly to seek that office and we would then find ourselves in the position of having a commissioner who is only in their second year being mayor, which I wouldn&#8217;t wish that on anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With Collin&#8217;s resignation, Sean Reed is now the mayor of Stuart, according to the city&#8217;s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stuartfl.gov\/230\/City-Commission\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">READ THE FULL RESIGNATION LETTER BELOW:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart Mayor Christopher Collins has resigned from his position with the city of Stuart and has announced his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[110359,171,173,172,110358,110357,13810],"class_list":["post-252958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-man-stabbed-to-death-by-girlfriend","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-stabbing-over-dinner-argument","tag-stabs-boyfriend-to-death","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252958","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=252958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}