{"id":915,"date":"2026-09-13T17:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/karen-love-mayor-of-gulfport\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:02:51","slug":"karen-love-mayor-of-gulfport","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/karen-love-mayor-of-gulfport\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Love is the Mayor of Gulfport. Gulfport is a small council-manager city, so the mayor is one of five council votes and a city manager handles operations. The mayor presides over council meetings and votes on Gulfport&#8217;s budget, tax rate, ordinances and waterfront and development decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Term ending March 2028; not on the ballot in 2026<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Elected March 11, 2025, unseating longtime mayor Sam Henderson. Gulfport&#8217;s mayor serves a three-year term and council members two-year terms, and city elections are held in March, not November, so no Gulfport seat is on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Love is the Mayor of Gulfport. Gulfport is a small council-manager city, so the mayor is one of five council votes and a city manager handles operations. The mayor presides over council meetings and votes on Gulfport&#8217;s budget, tax rate, ordinances and waterfront and development decisions. Term ending March[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":916,"menu_order":721,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-915","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/915","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\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}