Florida’s Senator Mel Martinez (R) has announced to his staff that he will be resigning – a move that follows up his previous December 2008 announcement that he will not seek re-election in 2010 (his term ends in 2011). He’s claiming that his priorities are elsewhere, especially with his family, and that he plans to return to Florida from D.C. Martinez, who is 62 and the only Hispanic Republican in the Senate (according to Fox News) will not be returning to Congress after the August recess. The task of appointing an interim replacement falls to Florida Governor Charlie Crist (R), who announced in May that he plans to run for the seat, but denies he’ll appoint himself.