{"id":51327,"date":"2025-11-18T15:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51327\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:42:13","slug":"kevin-steele-announces-bid-for-florida-cfo-challenging-key-desantis-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51327\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Steele announces bid for Florida CFO, challenging key DeSantis ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Republican state Rep. Kevin Steele of Pasco County announced a bid for chief financial officer on Tuesday, mounting a challenge to a key ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CFO Blaise Ingoglia, also a Republican, has been in the post since July after being appointed by DeSantis. Steele entering the race means Ingoglia\u2019s getting a real Republican challenger at a moment of some intrigue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There\u2019s only one statewide race in 2026 in which President Donald Trump has not endorsed a candidate: chief financial officer. If Steele were to win the president\u2019s approval, it could be a game-changer in the Republican primary for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI\u2019ve spent my career building companies from the ground up, fixing broken systems, and getting results,\u201d Steele said in a statement announcing his candidacy. \u201cI\u2019ll bring that same America First, results-driven mindset to protect taxpayers and make Florida more affordable and stronger than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a breaking news story that will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican state Rep. Kevin Steele of Pasco County announced a bid for chief financial officer on Tuesday, mounting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2855,2856,28,30,29,8189,1338,6688,32485,412],"class_list":["post-51327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-blaise-ingoglia","tag-chief-financial-officer","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-kevin-steele","tag-pasco-county","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-republican-state-rep","tag-ron-desantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51327","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=51327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}