ST. PETERSBURG--Mayoral hopeful Alex Haak said he will call for a statewide referendum to relocate the state capital to St. Petersburg.

New state buildings could be built near the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, he said.

"I'm sure there is enough land there, honey," Haak said.

Keep reading to see his press release. The errors are his, not ours.

-Cristina Silva, Times staff writer

Former New Jersey Mayor Alex Haak wants the State Capitol to move from Tallahassee to St. Petersburg.
He said: "Over two hundred years ago, Tallahassee was a great idea, I am sure, everyone lived in the Panhandle and close to the rest of the Southern States.  Especially so with today's Economical problems, has it become a endless and bottomless money squandering pit." "We have elected officials squandering our tax Dollars left and right for traveling expense and all out of the taxpayers pocket. When elected, I will call for a State wide Referendum, on this matter."
 
"During the Depression, we build most of our national, state and local buildings under the President Roosevelt's plan, now we have a Obama Stimulus plan and we should take advantage of it" He said.
He thinks it to be very foolish to travel eight hours, from Miami to Tallahassee, when we can do the same in four, going to the Capitol in St. Petersburg.
 
He feels the Capitol should be build at our local Airport and local industrial park and as part of our Monorail extension program, going to Orlando, we should also run a monorail extension from the Tampa Bay Airport, in this case the monorail should stop right in the Capitol building, he feels the center of route 275  and route 4 could be used as the basic track carrier.
 
"Our way of lavish thinking just have to chance, we reached the end of our bottomless pit in our Nation and if we do not chance our way of thinking and plan more economical, it will be our downfall" Haak said
 
"Many of my opponents talk about creating jobs, with out a plan, it takes more then using the words; "creating jobs" I have been fortunate enough to have studied local Planning and having traveled the Globe, so to speak. This not only will save Billions of Dollars in the long run, but it will create many jobs. This is a ten year plan" Haak continued.
 
' I will also present an immediate plan, for the Pier and a five year plan for the downtown area, with yes; jobs ,jobs,jobs and that plan, at NO expense to the taxpayer." Haak concluded.

UPDATE: Haak just sent in the following e-mail message:

"An ad on... It will give the Taxpayer a chance to have his or her say, an 8 hour ride makes that almost impassible"