{"id":358911,"date":"2026-07-31T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358911\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:05:08","slug":"2026-voters-guide-julio-rocha-for-orange-county-commission-district-8-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358911\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Voters Guide: Julio Rocha for Orange County Commission District 8 \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign website: <a href=\"https:\/\/votejuliorocha.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">votejuliorocha.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Candidate Q&amp;A:\u202fThis candidate did not respond to our request to fill out this voter guide. To best serve you, we searched candidate websites to answer questions about their candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>He co-owns an insurance and financial services agency with his spouse. His website says he is running \u201cwith a focus on housing affordability, transportation solutions and expanding economic opportunity,\u201d but it does not list any specific plans.<\/p>\n<p>Rocha has served in leadership roles with the Orlando chapter of Prospanica, a not-for-profit association of Hispanic professionals. He also served on the national organization\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>His website did not address how he\u2019d vote on the property tax amendment in November, how he would respond to data centers and their need for electricity nor what he viewed as the biggest environmental issue that needs addressing.<\/p>\n<p>This Voters Guide was produced by the\u00a0News Collaborative of Central Florida,\u00a0a collective of independent local news outlets and aligned partners working toward a more informed and engaged Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/votersguide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Back to the Voters Guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaign website: votejuliorocha.com Candidate Q&amp;A:\u202fThis candidate did not respond to our request to fill out this voter guide.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2811,114,266,115,139,141,140,99,109,146022],"class_list":["post-358911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-election","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-politics","tag-social","tag-voters-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358911","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=358911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}