{"id":359488,"date":"2026-08-01T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359488\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:08:08","slug":"governor-desantis-appoints-tony-smith-to-the-school-board-of-charlotte-county-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359488\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor DeSantis appoints Tony Smith to the school board of Charlotte County | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Smith is the new District 2 representative on the Charlotte County School Board.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is a Partner and Vice President of Ashley, Brown &amp; Smith, CPAs in Punta Gorda and a graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University with bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in accounting.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment is to fill the seat left vacant by Kim Amontree, who is running for Charlotte County Commission.<\/p>\n<p>WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wgcu.secureallegiance.com\/wgcu\/WebModule\/Donate.aspx?P=JOURNALISM&amp;PAGETYPE=PLG&amp;CHECK=Fh6V9MuzTVcdN7RxIr2SYb1YhDw50SikSh2nq0qouhg%3d\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">donate\u00a0<\/a>now. Thank you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Smith is the new District 2 representative on the Charlotte County School Board. Governor Ron DeSantis announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-359488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359488","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=359488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}