It was fairly official months ago even without the formality of an announcement, but over the weekend Charlie Crist made it (kinda?) official when he posted on Facebook a picture of his campaign sign for the 2014 gubernatorial run. Just Days before he officially staged a rally. Which incidentally is later today.
“The people’s Governor” makes up the majority of the sign with a sunrise pictured above it. Crist’s name appears only by way of a URL to his website.
More telling is the official campaigning disclosure on the bottom of the sign: “Political advertisement paid for and approved by Charlie Crist, Democrat, for Governor.”
So much for waiting for the rally. It was set for 9:30 this morning at Whitted Park in Crist-Stronghold St. Pete.
It’s not the first time Crist makes a big announcement through social media. When he officially changed his political party registration, he posted up a picture of him and his wife accompanied by the official document. What a romantic!
He was at a White House reception with the newly re-elected Barack Obama.
An embrace with Obama at a stimulus event was campaign fodder during Crist’s failed senatorial run. He didn’t make it out of the Republican Primary, defeated by the Tea-Party’s choice- the safely right-wing Marco Rubio.
Crist then switched to an independent to run in the general election. He lost.
At the time, Crist was thought to have left an easy re-election to the state capitol for a fairly secure national seat. He had been flirting with the national spot light ever since the John Mccain campaign floated Crist as a possible choice for Veep in 2008.
All of it didn’t work out.
Now the former Republican Governor will come at the current Republican Governor, Rick Scott, from the left.
Or atleast, Charlie Crist’s version of the left.
