He said he didn’t want to steal any thunder away from Sen. Marco Rubio, who is expected to announce a run for presidency later today.
But Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez all but said 
he was running for mayor in 2017.
“Yes, that’s my plan. Wife permitting of course,” Suarez said Monday morning on the Gray Zone Miami show on 880 “The Biz” AM.
Suarez abandoned a campaign for mayor in 2013 after a series of bad headlines that included an unfortunate mailer that capitalized on the death of a young tagger in South Beach, the firing of a staffer for an inappropriate rage tweet and the arrest of two campaign staffers on charges of absentee ballot fraud.
But he blamed his wife’s pregnancy when he withdrew in the midst of all that.
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On Monday, when Gray Zone host Marcos Lapciuc asked him if School Board Member Raquel Regalado‘s announcement she would run for county mayor cleared his path at the city, Suarez gave a definite, positive maybe. But he said he would need his wife’s blessing first.
“It’s not only a physical journey, it’s a spiritual journey,” Suarez said, maybe waxing on a little to hard. “The family has to be on board, the economic factor has to be there.”
Still, he said, the was a “real possiblity and probability” that he would run for the mayor’s post in 2017.
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Only he’s not looking at that right now. He’s look at a re-election in 2015.
And there are already three candidates lined up to run against him this November. Tony Diaz, a young political consultant and activist who doesn’t stand a chance, Ralph Rosado, who might drop out and wait until Suarez leaves the seat in 2017, and perennial candidate Manuel Reyes, who almost beat Suarez in 2009, losing only by 262 votes.
So, one race at a time.
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