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Apr 2, 2009 8:02 pm US/Eastern

Kendrick Meek Starts Senate Petition Drive

MIAMI (CBS4) ― U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek will attempt to become the first U.S. Senate candidate in Florida to qualify for the ballot by petition, Saturday he is starting his petition drive to collect the 112,000 signatures needed by April 13th to run for a U.S. Senate seat.

Meek said Thursday he will begin the petition drive in Orlando on Saturday to get on the ballot to fill outgoing Senator Mel Martinez's seat.

Meek has some experience gathering signatures statewide. He led the petition drive to put class size limits on the 2002 ballot.

The Miami Democrat will make stops from Pensacola to Key West to start the effort.

Meek said, "For us to win this race, we have to run a nontraditional campaign. It will not be a textbook campaign."

Martinez is a Republican; Meek is a Democrat and hopes to be the first Democratic candidate to get on the ballot. Congressman Connie Mack, on the Republican side said he will not longer be seeking that seat.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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