{"id":8578,"date":"2025-10-17T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8578\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:48:12","slug":"roger-chapin-raised-79k-last-period-the-most-of-any-orlando-city-council-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8578\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Chapin raised $79K last period, the most of any Orlando City Council candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Chapin\u2019s<\/a> fundraising is surging in the crowded race for the open Orlando City Council District 3 seat.<\/p>\n

Chapin, a Mears Transportation<\/a> executive who comes from a political family, raised nearly $79,000 from July 1 to Oct. 8. That\u2019s the most money of any of the candidate running in the three Orlando City Council races to be decided on Nov. 4, according to the latest campaign finance reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chapin is among five candidates running for the open District 3 to succeed longtime Commissioner Robert Stuart, who is not seeking a sixth term<\/a>. District 3 includes the bustling downtown neighborhoods of College Park and Baldwin Park.<\/p>\n

Behind Chapin, the next biggest fundraiser in District 3 was Mira Tanna<\/a>, the grants manager for the city of Orlando. She raised nearly $30,000 from July 1 to Oct. 8.<\/p>\n

Lawyer Kimberly Kiss<\/a> raised about $12,000 in donations and loaned herself another $10,000 in the same time period. Youth sports coach Chris Durant<\/a> raised about $14,000, while Orange Conservation District Supervisor\u00a0Samuel Chambers<\/a> raised less than $200.<\/p>\n

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Some of Chapin\u2019s recent big-name donors include Rosen Hotels and Resorts and its CEO, Frank Santos<\/a>. Both wrote him a $1,000 check. Other donors included Orlando Magic, the Central Florida Hotel and Lodging Association<\/a> and former Senate President Andy Gardiner.<\/p>\n

Chapin, whose mother is former Orange County Mayor Linda Chapin, has brought in $197,000 for the entire election cycle. So far, he has spent $80,000 of it, leaving $117,000 in his war chest for the final weeks before the election.<\/p>\n

Chapin previously unsuccessfully ran for the Orlando City Council in 2002.<\/p>\n

Last month, District 3 lost one candidate after Jason Albu dropped out of the race<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cAs much as I care about serving this community, this simply isn\u2019t the right time for me, my family, or my business,\u201d Albu said.<\/p>\n

Albu then endorsed Chapin.<\/p>\n

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Orlando voters will be deciding races in Districts 1<\/a>, 3 and 5<\/a> in the Nov. 4 election as the city government undergoes a major transformation in the next few years. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is not seeking re-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Chapin\u2019s fundraising is surging in the crowded race for the open Orlando City Council District 3 seat.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8784,8785,8786,8787,8788,8789,8790,139,8791,8792,141,140,8793,8794,8795],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-andy-gardiner","tag-central-florida-hotel-and-lodging-association","tag-chris-durant","tag-frank-santos","tag-kimberly-kiss","tag-linda-chapin","tag-mira-tanna","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-commission-district-3","tag-orlando-city-council-district-3","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-roger-chapin","tag-rosen-hotels-and-resorts","tag-samuel-chambers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","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=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}