Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower won’t face reelection until November 2011, but has already drawn a challenger.

Dave Crystal, a director of the Miami Beach Leadership Academy Alumni Association, has filed to run for Bower’s seat, said City Clerk Robert Parcher.

Crystal, 33, said he wants to correct fiscal policies that will eventually bleed the city, recently telling commissioners Miami Beach has become “the poster child” for increasingly burdensome pension costs.

“What they’ve done essentially on Miami Beach, repeatedly, is put Band-Aids on wounds instead of cauterizing and stopping the gangrene,” said Crystal, who wants to end police overtime pay except in extreme circumstances to decrease pension costs, create an independent police internal affairs division and start a ferry service to downtown Miami.

Crystal is a registered Republican and runs Crystal Clear Tutors. Crystal also is associated with Legal Revenge, which sells anti-Obama T-shirts on the Internet, but said the business is no longer active.

The Beach mayoral seat is nonpartisan.

Bower has not yet filed to run, but says she intends to pursue a third and final term.

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(Read More: Miami Herald)