Some mayors are so successful in their first term, they receive nominal challengers when they face re-election — like Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio in 2007, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1997, and St. Pete Mayor Rick Baker in 2005. Other mayors are more seriously challenged.
That will be Bill Foster's fate in 2013.
At 11:30 on Monday morning, Rick Kriseman and an entourage of family members entered St. Petersburg's City Hall — with a gaggle of photographers trailing — to file the paperwork needed to run for mayor. Kriseman then addressed a handful of reporters from City Hall's steps.
"I'm looking forward to this being a campaign of ideas, about policy and about vision, and giving the voters hopefully a very clear distinction between what I'd like to see happen here in the City of St. Petersburg and the direction that Mayor Foster has in mind," he said.
