{"id":11116,"date":"2025-07-09T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-rep-stephanie-murphy-is-running-for-mayor-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:24:13","slug":"former-rep-stephanie-murphy-is-running-for-mayor-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-rep-stephanie-murphy-is-running-for-mayor-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rep. Stephanie Murphy is running for mayor in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephanie Murphy, a once-prominent voice for House Democrats\u2019 moderate wing, is running for mayor in Orange County, Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was proud to represent parts of Orlando in the House of Representatives, where I was ranked one of America\u2019s most bipartisan and effective members of Congress,\u201d she said in her announcement<\/a> Wednesday. \u201cBut before I was ever in Washington, I worked in business, helping companies grow, solve problems and cut through red tape. Now I want to bring that same approach to local government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy made a surprise announcement<\/a> in 2021 that she would not seek reelection to her Orlando-area House seat. She had ousted Republican John Mica in 2016 from the seat he had served in for 12 terms.<\/p>\n

She had helped Democrats develop a strategy to retake the House in 2018, and her retirement sparked concerns from moderate Democrats about the future of the party.<\/p>\n

At the time, Murphy told Blue Light News she was not ruling out a run for other offices in the future. Her decision to leave, she said, was because serving had been a \u201cpersonal sacrifice\u201d that was \u201chard on my family and my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s hard for people in politics and especially in Washington to understand that someone at my age would quote unquote, retire … without having some sort of scandal or without fear of losing a reelection or without immediately running for another position or job,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cBut really, right now I need to be with my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her mayoral announcement, Murphy cited raising her kids in Orange County, saying she had \u201cskin in the game.\u201d Much of her announcement video centered around policies for working families, like safer communities and stronger schools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephanie Murphy, a once-prominent voice for House Democrats\u2019 moderate wing, is running for mayor in Orange County, Florida. \u201cI was proud to represent parts of Orlando in the House of Representatives, where I was ranked one of America\u2019s most bipartisan and effective members of Congress,\u201d she said in her announcement Wednesday. \u201cBut before I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}