St. Lucie County voters decided several local races in the Aug. 18 primary, with the Port St. Lucie mayoral contest and two other races heading to November runoffs.<\/p>\n
In the Port St. Lucie mayoral race, incumbent Shannon Martin will face Steven Giordano in the Nov. 3 election after neither candidate secured the 50% plus one majority needed to win outright.<\/p>\n
Martin received 47.7% of the vote, Giordano received 35.2% and Eric Strazzeri received 17.1%.<\/p>\n
Martin’s priorities include maintaining a disciplined budget, improving roads and infrastructure, growing jobs and law enforcement. Giordano’s priorities include transparency, infrastructure, fiscal responsibility, water quality and eliminating flock cameras.<\/p>\n
The Port St. Lucie City Council District 1 race also will go to a runoff. Rick Meltzer received 42.02% of the vote and Indony Jean Baptiste received 22.13%. Eric Reikenis received 15.03% and Kevin Zimmerman received 20.8%.<\/p>\n
Meltzer and Jean Baptiste will face off in the Nov. 4 runoff. The winner will succeed incumbent Stephanie Morgan, who did not seek re-election, and serve a four-year term.<\/p>\n
Meltzer’s priorities include infrastructure, protecting waterways, smart zoning and affordability. Jean Baptiste’s priorities include safer communities, transparency and strong leadership.<\/p>\n
In City Council District 3, Jim Norton won the seat with 52.3% of the vote. Peter Overhuls received 22.9% and Fritz Masson-Alexandre received 24.9%.<\/p>\n
Norton will succeed incumbent Anthony Bonna, who did not seek re-election and instead pursued the Florida House District 85 seat.<\/p>\n
Norton’s priorities include public safety, lowering taxes, infrastructure improvements, smart growth and preserving green space.<\/p>\n
In the St. Lucie County Commission District 4 Democratic primary, Jean Eddy Leroy defeated Roger Messer by 276 votes. Leroy received 50.7% of the vote to Messer’s 49.3%.<\/p>\n
Leroy, 40, will face Republican incumbent Jamie Lee Fowler and Nicholas Burgos, who is running with no party affiliation.<\/p>\n
Leroy’s priorities include smart growth, modernizing county services and affordability. Fowler’s priorities include term limits, reducing taxes, increasing public safety and sustainable growth.<\/p>\n
The general election for the District 4 seat is Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
The St. Lucie County School Board District 1 race was decided Tuesday, with incumbent Debbie Hawley defeating challenger Brian Capp 55% to 45%.<\/p>\n
Hawley, a fifth-term incumbent who was first elected in 2010, is focused on improving the quality of education for students.<\/p>\n
The District 5 school board race will go to a Nov. 4 runoff between incumbent Troy Ingersoll and challenger Lisa Kessler.<\/p>\n
Kessler received 37.5% of the vote and Ingersoll received 37.24%. Charles Cerami received 25.2%. Because no candidate received 50% plus one vote, the race moves to a runoff.<\/p>\n
Ingersoll is seeking his sixth term on the school board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County voters decided several local races in the Aug. 18 primary, with the Port St. Lucie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-412220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412220","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=412220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}