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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Former Florida<\/a> Gov. Charlie Crist is running for St. Petersburg mayor.<\/p>\n “Well, it’s official. I’m now a candidate for mayor of St. Pete. God bless you all,” he said in a video posted<\/a> to X on Monday.<\/p>\n His post includes the message, “I\u2019m in! #stpete.”<\/p>\n RON DESANTIS UNVEILS NEW FLORIDA CONGRESSIONAL MAP THAT WOULD GIVE THE GOP AN EXTRA FOUR SEATS<\/a><\/p>\n “I\u2019ve fought for the City of St. Petersburg in the Legislature, as Education Commissioner, Attorney General, and Governor, and as a United States Representative. Now I\u2019m taking that fight back home, to City Hall, where the city government is failing to address issues that matter most to YOU, my neighbors,” Crist declared on his campaign website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Crist served<\/a> as governor of the Sunshine State from early 2007 until early 2011. He was elected to the governorship as a Republican but lost a 2010 U.S. Senate race while running as an independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n DESANTIS TAUNTS JEFFRIES WITH FLORIDA INVITE \u2014 DEM LEADER RESPONDS WITH $20M WARNING SHOT<\/a><\/p>\n He lost the state’s 2014 gubernatorial contest while running as a Democrat.<\/p>\n Crist went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives<\/a> as a Democrat from early 2017 through August 2022.<\/p>\n DESANTIS UNDER PRESSURE AS FLORIDA REDRAW COULD TIP HOUSE BALANCE IN GOP MAP FIGHT<\/a><\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n Crist unsuccessfully sought the governorship again, but incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> shellacked him in the state’s 2022 gubernatorial contest.<\/p>\n Read more at FOXnews.com.<\/a><\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is running for St. Petersburg mayor. “Well, it’s official.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,115,1157,99,199,628],"class_list":["post-249586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-politics","tag-st-petersburg","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}