{"id":5309,"date":"2025-10-15T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5309\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:37:07","slug":"charlie-crist-seriously-considering-bid-for-st-pete-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5309\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Crist &#8216;seriously considering&#8217; bid for St. Pete mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist told Spectrum News on Wednesday that he is considering a run for St. Petersburg mayor in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is floating the idea to see what sort of reaction he will get from the public.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Spectrum News and Political Connections anchor Ybeth Bruzual, he said, \u201cYes, I am seriously considering running for mayor of St. Petersburg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t officially filed. He was governor from 2007-11, then served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017-22. In that role, he represented the state\u2019s 13th District.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Welch is the incumbent mayor of St. Pete but hasn\u2019t filed to run. He took office in 2022, replacing Rick Kriseman.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete Councilwoman Brandi Gabbard threw her name into the running this week. Community activist Maria Scrubbs is also in the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist told Spectrum News on Wednesday that he is considering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3140,115,596,99,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","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=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}