Charlie Crist regrets signing anti-gay marriage petition

Source: Tampa Bay Times

Flanked by more than a dozen reporters, former Gov. Charlie Crist today turned in his paperwork and officially became a registered Democrat before posing for pictures with several Pinellas County elections workers. "You know what I will call you three? Charlie's angels," he told three of the staffers.

Crist said he has no time line for deciding about running for governor, but he acknowledged people in the Obama administration - though not the president himself - have encouraged him to run. He also spoke of his displeasure with Gov. Rick Scott.

"I am disappointed. It started with rejecting the high speed rail. When I was governor we had several special sessions to try to tee that up to the us dept of transportation, working on Sunrail. We were successful I think in proving that Florida needed it, wanted it and was ready for it. So I think that was disappointing. De-funding education - $1.3-billion the first year. As a public school kid that really bothered me and disappointed me. The way the environments being treated. The disabled. We could go on, but I won't," Crist said, adding that public servant need to be compassionate.

"That's a big reason I'm a Democrat now - because they care, and they're compassionate," whose entourage consisted of Greg Truax, a friend and onetime GOP activist from Tampa, and Michelle Todd, a friend and former staffer.

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