{"id":30875,"date":"2025-11-03T04:48:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30875\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T04:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:48:28","slug":"newly-elected-naya-young-starts-journey-on-tampa-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30875\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Elected Naya Young Starts Journey on Tampa City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly elected Naya Young started her journey on the Tampa City Council.<\/p>\n

Councilwoman Naya Young, who represents District 5, was sworn in to her position after winning the recent special election. She called it a \u201cfantastic day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Naya<\/a>\u201cSo many wonderful people and so much support all in one room (and the hallway! lol) and all for me. I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll keep saying it, Thank You to everyone who voted for me and believed in the vision I have for our district,\u201d the new Tampa Councilwoman posted on social posted.<\/p>\n

Young ran a dynamic political campaign that she said was \u201cdedicated to bringing positive change to the citizens of District 5.\u201d Her District 5 campaign stood for integrity, collaboration, and sustainable progress \u2013 and she plans to bring that to the Tampa City Council.<\/p>\n

Naya Young received 3,116 total votes (61%) in the District 5 City Council election, according to data provided by the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections.<\/p>\n

Naya Young campaigned on youth empowerment and creating \u201ca better Tampa for the next generation,\u201d as well as smart growth, better transportation, more affordable housing, better paying jobs and opportunities for entrepreneurs, and making sure Tampa has strong neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations to Naya Young on winning the District 5 City Council seat tonight,\u201d Tampa Mayor Jane Castor posted. \u201cAnd thank you to all the candidates, including Thomas Scott, for your commitment to our community. I know the good work of our late Councilwoman Gwen Henderson will continue for District 5 & all of Tampa. Important work ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly elected Naya Young started her journey on the Tampa City Council. Councilwoman Naya Young, who represents District…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[147,832,22183,276,5756,1375,609,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-30875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-central-florida","tag-city-council","tag-councilwoman","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-jane-castor","tag-mayor","tag-naya-young","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875","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=30875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}