{"id":77860,"date":"2025-12-10T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77860\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:30:07","slug":"delray-beach-vice-mayor-rob-long-is-heading-to-tallahassee-following-tuesday-special-election-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77860\/","title":{"rendered":"Delray Beach Vice Mayor Rob Long is heading to Tallahassee following Tuesday special election win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delray Beach Vice Mayor Rob Long is heading to Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>In a landslide victory, Long, a Democrat, won Tuesday\u2019s special election for Florida House District 90, filling the seat left vacant after Representative Joe Casello\u2019s death in July. <\/p>\n<p>The district includes Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, and nearby coastal communities. <\/p>\n<p>Long got 9,553 votes (63%), Republican Maria Zack trailed in second place with 5,424 votes (36%) and Karen Yeh, a No Party Affiliation candidate, came in a distant third only 146 votes, or less than 1%,<a href=\"https:\/\/enr.electionsfl.org\/PAL\/3897\/Summary\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> according to the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections office.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long did not release an immediate statement following the results, but Florida Democrats cheered his victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to congratulate Representative-elect\u00a0Rob\u00a0Long,\u201d said\u00a0Florida Democratic Party Chair Chair Nikki Fried.\u00a0\u201cMy friend, the late Representative Joe Casello, would be thrilled the community chose such a tested and true leader in\u00a0Rob\u00a0to carry on his legacy in Tallahassee.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cTonight\u2019s victory shows that the pendulum is swinging in our favor and that when we organize year-round, Democrats not only win, but overperform,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Long ran on supporting small businesses, improving education, and securing more state funding for Palm Beach County. <\/p>\n<p>He will serve out the remainder of Casello\u2019s term, which ends November 2026 ahead of the regular election cycle for Florida House seats.<\/p>\n<p>Casello served as a Boynton Beach City Commissioner from 2013-2018 for District 4. He was appointed as the Vice-Mayor and then elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delray Beach Vice Mayor Rob Long is heading to Tallahassee. In a landslide victory, Long, a Democrat, won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-77860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77860","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=77860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}