Charlie Crist will announce plans for governor's race Nov. 4 in St. Petersburg
The former Republican governor widely expected to run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination told the Tampa Bay Times on Friday he will declare his intentions that Monday morning in downtown Straub Park. That's near where he announced in 2010 that he was leaving the GOP to run for U.S. Senate as an independent.
Working an enthusiastic crowd of Democratic activists gathered Friday at Disney World for their state party convention, he certainly looked like a candidate. But Crist insisted he is not completely decided.
"I somewhat know what I'm going to do, but until you say it publicly it's not done," Crist said.
He did have something of a soft opening of the campaign Friday, launching a new website, c harliecrist.com, and releasing a video of himself sounding very much like a candidate already settled on a message to take on Republican Gov. Rick Scott.
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Fla.'s Crist plots political comeback as Democrat
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Nearly three years after losing a U.S. Senate campaign to Republican Marco Rubio and leaving the governor's mansion, Crist is plotting a political comeback that seems fantastical even by Florida's stranger-than-fiction standards.
The man who once identified himself as a Ronald Reagan Republican is preparing for another gubernatorial bid, this time as a Barack Obama Democrat.
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Democratic officials, looking for a candidate to lead them back to power in Florida after 15 years, have embraced the convert.
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Democratic leaders, who have spent much of the last decade on the sidelines of a GOP-dominated Legislature, are excited by the prospect of nominating Crist.
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Long article here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/flas-crist-plots-political-comeback-democrat
