Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio, who was previously mulling a Senate bid earlier in the year, now says that she won’t run for the job — or for any statewide post in 2010, for that matter:
Over the past several months, I have given much thought to this and have concluded that 2010 is not the right time to pursue a statewide or national office. My four-year term as mayor does not end until March 2011 and I believe that running both the city of Tampa and a statewide campaign at the same time over the next eighteen months would shortchange the citizens of Tampa.
With Charlie Crist all but in this race, it seems that the Democratic nomination will be left to either Dan Gelber or Kendrick Meek.
UPDATE: CNN also says that Crist is going to jump in.
Does anyone think that Meek will drop out and run for either Gov. or re-election if Crist does run for the Senate?
Some goes for Gelber, although he better fits the profile of someone who would run in this type of long-shot race,
Just wondering whether Iorio was scared off because of Crist or if she wasn’t going to run anyway. The timing certainly suggests Crist was at least a factor.
run for some state-wide, non-Senate office.
She seems like a good mayor, so I hope she runs for something at some time.
Like Mike Moore in Mississippi, they throw her name around every cycle and she never goes for it. Plus Crist is enough to scare everyone off.
to beat Rubio if he knocks off Crist in an ideological fight.
That’s really all we need and can hope for here. We won’t beat Crist if he is the nominee.
If she wants a statewide job, would Iorio try going for Sink’s CFO job, or Attorney General if McCollum tries for Gov. (I’m assuming those positions would become open)
I always find this amusing. Crist’s first run at U.S. Senate in 1998.
Granted that was a suicide run by Crist. No republican was going to beat Bob Graham.
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