Audrey Edmonson has ‘major’ news coming. Will former Miami-Dade chair run for Congress?

Two years after term limits made her leave the Miami-Dade County Commission, it looks like Audrey Edmonson is ready to run for office again.

Edmonson, 69, scheduled a press conference for Tuesday morning in El Portal, where she launched her political career in 1999 as village mayor before going on to serve 14 years on the county commission.

People who have spoken to Edmonson in recent weeks said the former commission chairwoman is interested in challenging Frederica Wilson, the six-term Democratic congresswoman representing Florida’s 24th Congressional district in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Wilson is 79 and running for reelection.

“That is a good guess, but I cannot confirm,” Maurice Hernandez, a political consultant and the media contact for Edmonson’s “Major Public Announcement,” said of a District 24 run. “It’s about her political future.”

He pointed out there are other offices Edmonson could be interested in, noting Miami-Dade’s term-limit rule only applies to consecutive terms and doesn’t prevent the former chair from seeking a board seat again after leaving the commission in 2020.

“We don’t know if it’s for mayor, or going back to the commission,” Hernandez said of the event planned for 11 a.m. at the village’s government center. He said to expect people there to back Edmonson for whichever office she’s seeking. “I don’t know who, but there will be some endorsers there.”

Her former District 3 seat in Miami-Dade doesn’t come up for election in 2024, when first-term incumbent Keon Hardemon is expected to run again. Other options include seats in the Florida legislature up for election in redrawn maps in November.

Reached by phone, Edmonson declined to offer any hints about the news she plans to deliver Tuesday.

“I want you to come for my press conference and find out,” she said.