{"id":33639,"date":"2025-11-05T01:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33639\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:28:09","slug":"shan-rose-beats-regina-hill-to-keep-her-orlando-city-council-seat-in-ugly-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33639\/","title":{"rendered":"Shan Rose beats Regina Hill to keep her Orlando City Council seat in ugly race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The race generated attention-grabbing headlines following Regina Hill\u2019s arrest last year.<\/p>\n

Interim Orlando City Commissioner Shan Rose won re-election in Tuesday\u2019s election, ruining Regina Hill\u2019s attempt at a comeback after Hill was suspended from office following a felony indictment.<\/p>\n

Rose won with 52% of the vote while Hill and Lawanna Gelzer captured nearly 33% and 15%, according to unofficial election results.<\/p>\n

The race generated attention-grabbing headlines following Hill\u2019s arrest and pending trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hill was the District 5 Commissioner until Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended her last year<\/a> after she was arrested on elderly exploitation and fraud charges. She was the subject of an ongoing Orlando Sentinel investigation<\/a> about her relationship with a woman in her late 90s.<\/p>\n

Hill is accused of taking advantage of the woman after gaining power of attorney and then going on a shopping spree. Hill has insisted she is innocent.<\/p>\n

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After Hill\u2019s suspension, Rose won a Special Election<\/a> last year to fill the rest of Hill\u2019s term.<\/p>\n

Hill and Rose traded verbal attacks. Hill accused Rose of impropriety<\/a> after Rose notarized a registered sex offender\u2019s request to vacate a conviction involving a preteen girl, the Sentinel reported. Rose argued she was just doing her job as a notary public.<\/p>\n

The District 5 race<\/a> got so ugly, the Sentinel declined to weigh in and endorse any of the three candidates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOrlando\u2019s District 5 City Commission race is, to put it bluntly, a mess, and none of the candidates has really made the case that they would be the best choice,\u201d the editorial board said<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n

The four-year City Commissioner term pays $79,343 annually.<\/p>\n

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District 5 was one of three contested races to reshape Orlando city government.<\/p>\n

Some of the issues in front of the Orlando City Council include funding road improvement projects<\/a> in busy corridors, modernizing Leu Gardens<\/a> and adding a children\u2019s garden, and building the Pulse Memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

District 5 covers downtown Orlando and other neighborhoods, including Parramore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race generated attention-grabbing headlines following Regina Hill\u2019s arrest last year. Interim Orlando City Commissioner Shan Rose won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8716,139,8718,141,140,6643,7889],"class_list":["post-33639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-lawanna-gelzer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-council-district-5","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-regina-hill","tag-shan-rose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639","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=33639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}