{"id":871,"date":"2026-09-13T17:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/richie-floyd-st-petersburg-city-council-district-8\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:18","slug":"richie-floyd-st-petersburg-city-council-district-8","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/richie-floyd-st-petersburg-city-council-district-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Richie Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richie Floyd is the St. Petersburg City Council, District 8. One of eight council members who write city ordinances, approve the mayor&#8217;s budget, set property tax rates and vote on rezonings and land deals. As 2026 Vice-Chair he fills in when the chair is absent. District 8 covers the Kenwood, Grand Central and west-central St. Pete area.<\/p>\n<p>Term ending January 2027; already re-elected without opposition to a term running January 2027 to January 2031<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>2026 City Council Vice-Chair. Drew no challengers at qualifying, so he was automatically re-elected and will not appear on the November ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richie Floyd is the St. Petersburg City Council, District 8. One of eight council members who write city ordinances, approve the mayor&#8217;s budget, set property tax rates and vote on rezonings and land deals. As 2026 Vice-Chair he fills in when the chair is absent. District 8 covers the Kenwood,[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":872,"menu_order":409,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-871","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_politics"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}