{"id":37586,"date":"2025-11-07T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37586\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:53:28","slug":"runoff-set-for-fort-pierce-district-2-city-commission-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37586\/","title":{"rendered":"Runoff set for Fort Pierce District 2 City Commission seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 The race to become the next city commissioner in Fort Pierce isn&#8217;t over yet. With no candidate winning a majority in <a class=\"Link\" 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&#8217;s special election<\/a>, voters will head back to the polls in January for a runoff between Chris Dzadovsky and Jaimebeth Galinis.<\/p>\n<p>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>For residents like Iola Mosley, who has called Fort Pierce home for nearly a decade, the process has been frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>Runoff set for Fort Pierce District 2 City Commission seat after special election<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love Fort Pierce,&#8221; Mosley said. &#8220;Everyone is polite, you know. And it&#8217;s a good feeling when you know your neighbors are really neighbors and look out for you. And that&#8217;s what I get from Fort Pierce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she says that the sense of trust has been shaken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have this expense and to have to be forced to have a special election, it just breaks my heart,&#8221; Mosley said.<\/p>\n<p>The city says the runoff election will cost roughly $60,000 \u2014 money that some voters say could be spent elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a lot. Yeah, that is not ideal,&#8221; said Marie-Ann Kessler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are other things that you could put the money towards \u2014 beautifying the city, beautifying certain parts of Fort Pierce \u2014 but you can&#8217;t put that money towards that now, because now you have to do a runoff election,&#8221; said Pamela Turner.<\/p>\n<p>Voters tell WPTV that what they want most in their next commissioner is simple: accountability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need more accountability,&#8221; Turner said.<\/p>\n<p>The runoff election is scheduled for Jan. 13, and only District 2 residents will be eligible to vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 The race to become the next city commissioner in Fort Pierce isn&#8217;t over yet.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3886,25720,171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-37586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-fort-pierce","9":"tag-fort-pierce-commission","10":"tag-port-st-lucie","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","12":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586","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=37586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}