{"id":36795,"date":"2025-11-07T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/36795\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:04:09","slug":"runoff-set-for-fort-pierce-district-2-city-commission-seat-after-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/36795\/","title":{"rendered":"Runoff set for Fort Pierce District 2 City Commission seat after special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The race to become the next city commissioner in Fort Pierce isn\u2019t over yet. With no candidate winning a majority in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/region-st-lucie-county\/fort-pierce\/fort-pierce-voters-head-to-polls-for-special-election-to-fill-vacant-district-2-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tuesday\u2019s special election<\/a>, voters will head back to the polls in January for a runoff between Chris Dzadovsky and Jaimebeth Galinis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The District 2 seat has been vacant since James Taylor resigned earlier this year following 24 counts of child exploitation charges. His resignation forced the city to call a special election to fill his position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For residents like Iola Mosley, who has called Fort Pierce home for nearly a decade, the process has been frustrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI love Fort Pierce,\u201d Mosley said. \u201cEveryone is polite, you know. And it\u2019s a good feeling when you know your neighbors are really neighbors and look out for you. And that\u2019s what I get from Fort Pierce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But she says that the sense of trust has been shaken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTo have this expense and to have to be forced to have a special election, it just breaks my heart,\u201d Mosley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city says the runoff election will cost roughly $60,000 \u2014 money that some voters say could be spent elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt is a lot. Yeah, that is not ideal,\u201d said Marie-Ann Kessler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere are other things that you could put the money towards \u2014 beautifying the city, beautifying certain parts of Fort Pierce \u2014 but you can\u2019t put that money towards that now, because now you have to do a runoff election,\u201d said Pamela Turner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Voters tell WPTV that what they want most in their next commissioner is simple: accountability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe need more accountability,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The runoff election is scheduled for Jan. 13, and only District 2 residents will be eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race to become the next city commissioner in Fort Pierce isn\u2019t over yet. With no candidate winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-36795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36795","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=36795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}