{"id":443424,"date":"2026-10-31T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443424\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:14:29","slug":"florida-chief-financial-officer-candidates-and-orlandos-major-league-baseball-dreams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443424\/","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> (01:26) Florida&#8217;s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) acts as a combination of the state&#8217;s treasurer, comptroller and, even, fire marshall.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CFO is also tasked with regulating insurance companies, auditing the state&#8217;s 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>\nWe spoke with the two candidates about their campaigns ahead of the midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>\nGuests: <\/p>\n<p>Blaise Ingoglia, Republican incumbent.\u00a0Annette Taddeo, Democratic challenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orlando&#8217;s Major League Baseball dreams<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>(40:12) Could Major League Baseball come to Central Florida?<\/p>\n<p>\nThe MLB is likely to expand to 32 teams and Orlando is vying to host a new franchise.<\/p>\n<p>\nIs the Sunshine State ready for a third team?<\/p>\n<p>\nGuest:   <\/p>\n<p>Jim Schnorf, co-founder and chief operations officer for the Orlando Dreamers.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLRN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Chief Financial Officer candidates\u00a0 (01:26) Florida&#8217;s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) acts as a combination of the state&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-443424","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\/443424","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=443424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}