So, Mr. Speaker, will you run for mayor?

With fresh speculation that term-limited Marco Rubio may run for Miami-Dade mayor, one of the mortgage brokers who visited with him Tuesday asked the question: What's next?

"I'll give you the answer that I'm not supposed to give, a political answer. But the truth is, the job I do is a huge job. I take it very, very seriously. And I'm focused. I have like eight weeks to go as speaker of the House in terms of the legislative session and I want to do the best job I can here. And then we'll focus on the future. Honestly, there used to be a time when I could answer that question standing here.

But I have four kids, I have a wife, and they have a role to play in this as well. Well, maybe not the six month old  ... Although being a Rubio, he'll learn how to speak fast. I don't have an answer for you today. Except to tell you I love public service. I would love to continue to serve in some future capacity if it's right for me, if I'm right for the job and the job is right for my family.

I do enjoy the ability to be in a place like this where I can have a voice on these issues that I think are so important. To be 36, almost 37, and be in a position to wake up in the morning, see what's wrong and try to do something about it is extraordinarily rewarding. But then again, being commissioner of the National Football League would be nice, too. And if that were to come about, then forget politics. But so far, no offers and therefore, here I am."

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Run...run...run...run...

Even if he lost, he would make Alvarez earn it. Something elected officials in Miami stop having to do a long time ago.

[Emma and Jorge]

Marco, please consider running for the head of my Miami condo association. We have so many empty units here owned by carpetbaggers from up north. They need a big 1.35% tax break so they can flip those units like they were a few years ago. Most of us here are old, so we don't need schools, and instead of police and fire protection, we're will to buy a gun and a fire extinguisher. We never leave our homes unless it's to play bingo, so if your developer friends want to pave over the state with more condos, that's just fine with us. Please consider my request, you are such a fine young man, Marco.

Read between the lines in the last paragraph. "to be in a place like this" - he is in Tallahassee. He is going to run for Governor not Mayor. However, I think he will find with his first poll that no one outside of Miami knows who he is. Just ask Johnnie Byrd. He thought he was a big deal because he was Speaker.

Marco who?

I think you forgot that lots of Republicans thought they were a big deal, Alan Bense wanna be senator and then wanna be RPOF chair, Tom Lee wanna be CFO, Jeb Bush wanna be President, Jeff Atwater wanna be senate president, ect

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Marco "I have more charisma then Carlos Alvarez, who couldn't charm his way out of a wet paper bag, and wasted the first year of his tenure because he had no idea what he had gotten himself into, and although he portrayed himself as a top-cop candidate, murders and crime have gone up in Miami-Dade" Rubio

Do it already, its time to shake up.

It wasnt Bense's fault he wasnt RPOF chairman.

What has Alvarez done in 4 years? He's wasted tax payers dollars in pursuit of strong mayor for 4 years. now he finally has it and he asking us for 4 more? Why? His office is a joke he has a bunch of yes people in that office and wannabe players like his senior advisor (who by the way runs a law firm at the same time, how is that ethical?http://gazitua.com/about_us.html). His office has more staff of my dad worked with him in the police force or he's my brother in law's best friend etc.

I'm not saying Marco is the one but someone should see how ethical his office really is.

"I have like eight weeks to go"

and i like hope you like do like really well. like okay?

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Alvarez's staff couldn't make scrambled eggs run. They have been outmanuevered at every turn by the county commission; his advisors have always been in over their heads, all ways.

And 12:17, like, get a life.

He would make a great mayor. He can also keep media focus on the property tax issue too

6:18 Right you are, Problem Solved. Just the kind of egotistical twerp to ignore reality and front a taxwatch effort in these times of budget shortfalls. In addition to his reputation as a me first guy, now he can champion the effort to gut environmental regulation and cut spending on programs for the poor and needy. After all, what's to lose his reputation is already worth squat.