{"id":979,"date":"2026-09-13T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/kathy-castor-u-s-representative-florida-14th-congressional-district\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:06:34","slug":"kathy-castor-u-s-representative-florida-14th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/kathy-castor-u-s-representative-florida-14th-congressional-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Castor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Castor is the U.S. Representative, Florida 14th Congressional District. A member of the U.S. House writes and votes on federal law and on the federal budget, and sits on committees that oversee agencies like FEMA, Medicare and the VA. Each member represents one district of roughly 800,000 people and runs local offices that help constituents with federal casework and with federal grants for the area.<\/p>\n<p>Term ends January 3, 2027. On the ballot November 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Democrat, the Tampa Bay delegation&#8217;s only Democrat. Under the new 2026 map CD 14 is entirely within Hillsborough County, running from Town n Country through Plant City to rural Wimauma, and it no longer includes the Pinellas piece it held under the 2022 map. Axios Tampa Bay and WUSF both report the redrawn seat now leans Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Castor is the U.S. Representative, Florida 14th Congressional District. A member of the U.S. House writes and votes on federal law and on the federal budget, and sits on committees that oversee agencies like FEMA, Medicare and the VA. Each member represents one district of roughly 800,000 people and[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":980,"menu_order":1203,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-979","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/979","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\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}