Charlie Crist running to be St. Petersburg’s mayor

Charlie Crist is running for office, again.

The former Florida governor filed Monday to run for mayor of St. Petersburg, Fla. Crist posted a video of himself to the social platform X in which he holds paperwork and remarks, “Well it’s official. I’m now a candidate for mayor of St. Pete. God bless you all.”

Crist, 70, has been a longtime staple of Florida politics since he was first elected to the state Senate in 1992. He later served as the Sunshine State’s education commissioner and attorney general under former Gov. Jeb Bush (R), before succeeding Bush as governor in 2007…

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