{"id":443068,"date":"2026-10-31T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443068\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:12:11","slug":"florida-chief-financial-officer-candidates-and-orlandos-major-league-baseball-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443068\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida chief financial officer candidates and Orlando\u2019s Major League Baseball dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Chief Financial Officer candidates\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) acts as a combination of the state\u2019s treasurer, comptroller and, even, fire marshall.<\/p>\n<p>The CFO is also tasked with regulating insurance companies, auditing the state\u2019s spending and is a member of the Florida Cabinet along with the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke with the two candidates about their campaigns ahead of the midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Blaise Ingoglia, Republican incumbent.\u00a0Annette Taddeo, Democratic challenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s Major League Baseball dreams<\/p>\n<p>Could Major League Baseball come to Central Florida?<\/p>\n<p>The MLB is likely to expand to 32 teams and Orlando is vying to host a new franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Is the Sunshine State ready for a third team?<\/p>\n<p>Guest:<\/p>\n<p>Jim Schnorf, co-founder and chief operations officer for the Orlando Dreamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Chief Financial Officer candidates\u00a0 Florida\u2019s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) acts as a combination of the state\u2019s treasurer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-443068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443068","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=443068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}