{"id":889,"date":"2026-09-13T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/ken-burke-pinellas-county-clerk-of-the-circuit-court-and-comptroller\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:57","slug":"ken-burke-pinellas-county-clerk-of-the-circuit-court-and-comptroller","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/ken-burke-pinellas-county-clerk-of-the-circuit-court-and-comptroller\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Burke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Burke is the Pinellas County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller. The clerk keeps the county&#8217;s court records, handles child support and traffic payments, issues marriage licenses and records deeds and mortgages. As comptroller the same office is also the county&#8217;s accountant and auditor, writing the checks and auditing how commissioners spend money.<\/p>\n<p>Term ending January 2029; not on the ballot in 2026<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Sworn in January 4, 2005 and re-elected without opposition in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024. Next election 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Burke is the Pinellas County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller. The clerk keeps the county&#8217;s court records, handles child support and traffic payments, issues marriage licenses and records deeds and mortgages. As comptroller the same office is also the county&#8217;s accountant and auditor, writing the checks and[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":890,"menu_order":509,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-889","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/889","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\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}