{"id":911,"date":"2026-09-13T17:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/bruce-rector-mayor-of-clearwater\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:02:37","slug":"bruce-rector-mayor-of-clearwater","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/bruce-rector-mayor-of-clearwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Rector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Rector is the Mayor of Clearwater. Clearwater has a council-manager government, so the mayor is one of five votes on the City Council rather than a chief executive; a hired city manager runs the departments. The mayor presides over meetings, is the city&#8217;s public face, and votes on the budget, tax rate, ordinances and development approvals like everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Term ending 2028; not on the ballot in 2026<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Holds Seat 1. Elected mayor in 2024 to a four-year term. Only Council Seats 4 and 5 were on Clearwater&#8217;s Aug. 18, 2026 ballot, with any needed runoffs on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Rector is the Mayor of Clearwater. Clearwater has a council-manager government, so the mayor is one of five votes on the City Council rather than a chief executive; a hired city manager runs the departments. The mayor presides over meetings, is the city&#8217;s public face, and votes on the[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":912,"menu_order":701,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-911","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/911","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\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}