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Charlie Crist, the forty-fourth Governor of Florida, began his gubernatorial term on January 2, 2007. Prior to being elected Governor in 2006, Crist held elective office as a Florida State Senator (elected 1992), Education Commissioner (elected 2000), and Attorney General (elected 2002). On May 12, 2009, Crist announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez. He lost that election to Marco Rubio, and his term as Governor ended in January 2011.
Charlie Crist was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on July 24, 1956, and later moved with his family to St. Petersburg, Florida. He attended Wake Forest University for two years, completed his undergraduate degree at Florida State University in 1978, and received his law degree in 1981 from the Cumberland School of Law in Alabama.
After passing the bar exam, Crist served as general counsel to minor league baseball. He first ran for office in the 1986 Republican primary for a state Senate seat in Pinellas County. He followed up this unsuccessful run, he served as an aide to Connie Mack III in Mack's successful 1988 bid for a U.S. Senate seat.
Serving in the Florida Senate for six years, Crist chaired the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee and he Appropriations Criminal Justice Subcommittee. In 1999, following his term in the Senate, Crist was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation by Governor Jeb Bush.
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This series documents Governor Crist's participation in public events and activities ("external" activities). The series consists primarily of event information sheets (EIS) providing information about events the Governor was scheduled to attend and photographs documenting those events. Events related to the full range of issues dealth with by the Crist administration, including such major issues as the Groundhog Day tornadoes in Central Florida (2007), the H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic (2009), the Seminole Gaming Compact (2009), the Haiti Earthquake (2010), the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010), and the Northern Everglades Ecosystem.
Event information sheets typically provide information such as:
- event
- date
- location
- contact information
- length of any remarks by the Governor
- speech topic
- who is introducing the Governor
- other speakers
- if there will be questions from the audience
- physical setup of the state and site
- background on the organization or event
- event format/schedule
- number attending
- legislators or other dignitaries attending
Events and activities include visits, tours, press conferences, bill signings, meetings, and other events relating to such topics as:
- state budget, economy, and business
- schools and education
- emergency management and response
- environment, energy, and climate
- health, child, and senior citizen issues
- military and veterans
- property ownership, insurance and taxation
- public safety and crime
- transportation
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Contains primarily MS Word documents and jpeg images with a few PDF files.
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Crist, Charlie, 1956-
Governors Florida Budget Florida Economic policy. Business development. Schools Florida Public schools Florida Education Florida Emergency management Florida Disaster relief Florida Emergency preparedness. Environmental policy Florida Energy policy Florida Health planning Florida Child health services Florida Child welfare Florida Aged Services for Florida Aged-Care Veterans Florida. Insurance Florida Taxation Florida Crime Florida Law enforcement Florida Transportation Florida Tornadoes Florida. BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010. H1N1 influenza. Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010. Seminole Indians.
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