{"id":296378,"date":"2026-06-04T21:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296378\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T21:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:40:26","slug":"st-petersburg-house-democrat-lindsay-cross-wont-run-for-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296378\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg House Democrat Lindsay Cross won\u2019t run for reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE \u2014 Rep. Lindsay Cross<\/a>, a St. Petersburg Democrat, announced on Thursday that she won\u2019t seek reelection to the Florida House this year.<\/p>\n

Cross, an environmental advocate<\/a> who was first elected in 2022, said she made her decision despite 2026 seeming strong for Democrats.<\/p>\n

She said she\u2019s confident there will be a \u201cstrong Democratic nominee\u201d for the seat come November and that she intends to help that candidate get elected. She also said she\u2019s not running for any other seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the right time for me personally and professionally to move into a different phase,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Cross was the only candidate filed to runfor House District 60.<\/p>\n

A few hours after her announcement, Lindsay Polega-Quigley, an attorney, filed to run for theseat with Cross\u2019 endorsement.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the State House, I\u2019ll fight for affordable living and a clean and healthy environment where Pinellas families can work hard to build a good life,\u201d Polega-Quigley said.<\/p>\n

Cross said moving forward, she\u2019s looking for other ways to make an impact on the state, including by focusing more on the local level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to being more engaged locally year-round and empowering a new generation of leaders who can represent us with the passion, grit, intelligence, and humility that is required to hold Tallahassee accountable,\u201d Cross said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Times reporter Colleen Wright contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE \u2014 Rep. Lindsay Cross, a St. Petersburg Democrat, announced on Thursday that she won\u2019t seek reelection to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[23832,124897,9129,39855,3030,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-296378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-democratic-nominee","tag-environmental-advocate","tag-florida-house","tag-lindsay-cross","tag-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296378","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=296378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}