{"id":305544,"date":"2026-06-12T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305544\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:32:14","slug":"see-which-candidate-ranked-highest-by-naacp-in-st-pete-mayoral-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305544\/","title":{"rendered":"See Which Candidate Ranked Highest By NAACP In St. Pete Mayoral Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Candidates tackled various topics during Monday&#8217;s debate, including hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery; accountability and transparency; the St. Petersburg Police Department\u2019s agreement with ICE; affordability; the city\u2019s Duke Energy contract and the possibility of forming its own municipal utility; and the future of the Gas Plant District. <\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg voters will cast their ballots for mayor on Aug. 18. If there is no clear winner, the top two vote-getters will head to a Nov. 3 runoff race. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candidates tackled various topics during Monday&#8217;s debate, including hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery; accountability and transparency; the St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-305544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-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\/305544","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=305544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}