{"id":873,"date":"2026-09-13T17:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/chris-scherer-pinellas-county-commissioner-district-1-at-large\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:18","slug":"chris-scherer-pinellas-county-commissioner-district-1-at-large","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/chris-scherer-pinellas-county-commissioner-district-1-at-large\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Scherer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Scherer is the Pinellas County Commissioner, District 1 (At-Large). County commissioners set the county property tax rate, pass the county budget and write ordinances covering unincorporated Pinellas and countywide services like transit, the jail budget, beach renourishment and tourist-tax spending. District 1 is an at-large seat, meaning he lives in District 1 but is elected by voters countywide.<\/p>\n<p>Term ending November 2028; not on the ballot in 2026<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Elected in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Scherer is the Pinellas County Commissioner, District 1 (At-Large). County commissioners set the county property tax rate, pass the county budget and write ordinances covering unincorporated Pinellas and countywide services like transit, the jail budget, beach renourishment and tourist-tax spending. District 1 is an at-large seat, meaning he lives[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":874,"menu_order":501,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-873","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/873","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\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}