Florida's Lieutenant Governor Denies Any Affair With Her Female Staffer
Jennifer Carroll, Florida's lieutenant governor, is accused of firing a staffer who caught her in "a compromising position" with another woman in her capitol office. But Carroll is denying it ever happened in emails sent to her supporters, according to Florida media.
Reuters first reported Thursday that former staffer Carletha Cole is engaged in a lawsuit and that in a court filing earlier this month revealed she had walked in on her boss with her travel aide, Beatriz Ramos, in "a compromising position" — a phrase used by Cole's lawyer in the filing.
Carroll, who is married with children, said in an email to a supporter released by the governor's office that she "will be fighting back." In another, she blames the media for reporting the accusation.
"Unfortunately, as an elected official character deformation that is totally fabricated can occur like this and there is not much I can do," Carroll wrote, according to The New Service of Florida. "The media loves to put out sensational stories without doing due diligence to verify the authenticity."
http://www.advocate.com/politics/2012/07/14/lieutenant-governor-florida-accused-affair-her-female-staffer
This story has legs, we have not heard the last of this. How ever this story unfolds, there is going to be hell to pay.
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Do we blame Carroll, the reporter, or The Advocate ?
(This is how is appeared in the Miami Herald)
