TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 State Senator Ed Hooper, who\u2019s on the Joint Legislative Budget Commission, announced Wednesday that he is resigning in November.<\/p>\n
In a pair of letters sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow senators, he says it\u2019s been a great honor to represent Pasco and Pinellas counties for the last eight years as state senator.<\/p>\n
He also spoke about his role as senate appropriations chairman.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you all for the valuable support, time and flexibility you provided during the budget process,\u201d Hooper said in the statement.<\/p>\n
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco stated on X that he plans to run for the post.<\/p>\n
You can read his statement below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 State Senator Ed Hooper, who\u2019s on the Joint Legislative Budget Commission, announced Wednesday that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3140,274,2287,115,139,99,275,232,234,233,135,278],"class_list":["post-271102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271102","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=271102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}