{"id":268654,"date":"2026-05-12T22:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268654\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:57:13","slug":"tony-ortiz-joins-race-for-orlando-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268654\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ortiz joins race for Orlando mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City of Orlando District Two Commissioner Tony Ortiz today announced his candidacy for Orlando mayor, joining three other hopefuls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This development comes after Mayor Buddy Dyer confirmed last year that he will not run for re-election after serving 20 years in office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ortiz, the first and only Puerto Rican to be elected as a commissioner for Orlando, said that community support motivated him to run for the city\u2019s top position. The upcoming election will choose a new mayor to succeed Dyer, who is Orlando\u2019s longest-serving mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Candidates:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Florida House Rep. Anna Eskamani is also among the four candidates running for mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Abdelnasser Mohammad Lutfi filed his intent to run in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Elliot Kahana submitted his intent to run on March 12, just last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Orlando District Two Commissioner Tony Ortiz today announced his candidacy for Orlando mayor, joining three other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8132,139,141,140,115311],"class_list":["post-268654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-buddy-dyer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-tony-ortiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268654","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=268654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}