{"id":253602,"date":"2026-05-01T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253602\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:00:09","slug":"stuart-mayor-resigns-to-run-for-martin-county-commission-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253602\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart mayor resigns to run for Martin County commission seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 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>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>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>\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>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>READ THE FULL RESIGNATION LETTER BELOW:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Stuart Mayor Christopher Collins has resigned from his position with the city of Stuart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-253602","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\/253602","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=253602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}