Charlie Crist

We mess with you.

When Ron DeSantis was running for reelection, he was running against Charlie Crist, who at that point, I think, decided he was a Democrat or something.

I don't know.

Charlie Crist, please.

The final public polling showed Ron DeSantis with a six to eight point lead in that election.

Do you know what the final tally was? Ron DeSantis, 59 percent.

Charlie Crist, 39 percent.

He won by a million and a half votes.

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I am excited to vote." And that year in 2022, we crushed the election in Florida.

Governor DeSantis won with over one million votes, and we even flipped Charlie Crist's seat in Pinellas County, Florida, where we flipped it from blue to red in voter registration, and we elected Anna Paulina Luna to Congress.

The moral of the story, my friends, is the media does not want you to vote early so they can point to the data and they can say, "See? I told you so.

A blue wave is coming." October 19th, Texas early voting is happening.

And Ashley, I wanna start with the future of the Tropicana Field site.

I recently spoke with Charlie Crist running for St. Pete mayor, and I asked him, you know, "If you're elected, are you just gonna toss, uh, current St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch's plans right out the window, kinda like what Welch did to then St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman and start all over again?" And he said to me, and he basically said this in the debate the other night, uh, he'll look at the plans.

He thinks there are some good proposals on the table, but if he were to start from scratch, what would that mean for that area?

I, I mean, it would put us right back where we were five years ago when Ken Welch did the same thing even though Rick Kriseman had s- selected a developer that he felt was ready to move forward with redevelopment.

And, you know, I think that there is a worry or some anxiety that if they throw out the proposals again, you know, no one from out of town is gonna bid.

Right.

But it does seem, it does seem like a lot of the development community is supporting Charlie Crist, or they're at least in his ear.

So it's gonna be interesting to see how that plays out and what that means because there were several, um, qualified proposals that were submitted this time around, and one of them included Kathy Wood, um, who is the, the big finance and a big name in finance and investing.

Hmm

... where Charlie Crist was in the 2006 election-

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... uh, when he took, I think memory serves it, an historic, uh, 16% of the Black vote.

The realities of our weather demand that to be a resilient city, we have to make those investments now.

But opponent and former Florida Governor Charlie Crist says residents are already hurting enough with rising prices.

The last thing I wanna do is burden you with a bond that has more debt on the city of St. Petersburg than we have right now.

We need to live within our means.