{"id":969,"date":"2026-09-13T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/wilton-simpson-florida-commissioner-of-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:05:38","slug":"wilton-simpson-florida-commissioner-of-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/wilton-simpson-florida-commissioner-of-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilton Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilton Simpson is the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture. The Commissioner of Agriculture runs a department that inspects grocery scales and gas pumps, checks food safety, issues concealed-weapon licenses, and backs Florida farmers and ranchers. The office also fields consumer complaints and manages the state forests and wildfire response.<\/p>\n<p>Term ending January 2027, on the ballot November 3, 2026<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>CABINET SEAT ON THE NOVEMBER 3 2026 BALLOT. Statewide office covering all of Tampa Bay. Simpson is the incumbent running for a second term and won his August 2026 primary. He is a Pasco County egg farmer and former Florida Senate President, so this is the Cabinet seat with the deepest Tampa Bay roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilton Simpson is the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture. The Commissioner of Agriculture runs a department that inspects grocery scales and gas pumps, checks food safety, issues concealed-weapon licenses, and backs Florida farmers and ranchers. The office also fields consumer complaints and manages the state forests and wildfire response. Term ending[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":970,"menu_order":1005,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-969","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/969","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\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}