{"id":78024,"date":"2025-12-10T05:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/78024\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:05:13","slug":"former-delray-beach-vice-mayor-wins-florida-house-district-90-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/78024\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Delray Beach Vice Mayor wins Florida House District 90 seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DELRAY BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Delray Beach Vice Mayor Rob Long (D) has won the special election for Florida House District 90. <\/p>\n<p>The seat opened up after long-time representative Joe Casello passed in July of 2025. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/region-s-palm-beach-county\/boynton-beach\/florida-rep-joe-casello-dies-while-in-office\" class=\"ListItem \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"ListItem-category\">Boynton Beach<\/p>\n<p>    Rep. Joe Casello of Boynton Beach dies following heart attack<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The district includes Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes, Golf, and Gulf Stream. <\/p>\n<p>During Monday night\u2019s Delray Beach City Commission meeting, Long resigned from his seat.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke about his priorities in Tallahassee, if elected, including protecting Home Rule following the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) ordeal with the pointed crosswalk this year.<\/p>\n<p>Long expressed he wants to introduce a PFAS bill to help protect drinking water and the state\u2019s firefighters, a bill to attract and grow businesses in Florida, and a bill that safeguards the ability to manage sober homes responsibly and locally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter what committee I am on [or] what building I am sitting in, I will always fight to protect Home Rule because the people who live in our communities deserve the right to shape them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Democratic Party congratulated Long on Tuesday evening in a press release shortly after the election results were in. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalm Beach is in good hands and will be well represented by Rob as he joins our caucus to focus on making Florida more affordable for working-class people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DELRAY BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Delray Beach Vice Mayor Rob Long (D) has won the special election for Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43835,28,30,9129,29,25588],"class_list":["post-78024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-district-90-seat","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-house","tag-florida-news","tag-rob-long"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78024","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=78024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}