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" Back at the Florida Straw Poll last summer, one of the unquestioned stars was that state&amp;#039;s Lieutenant Governor, Jennifer Carroll, a Trinidadian-born superstar, a conservative, charismatic pro-life black woman, a Navy veteran, the mother of a Miami Dolphin, and someone who was greeted far more rapturously by the assembled than even Governor Bat Boy was. She was clearly next on the GOP&amp;#039;s we-love-our-ethnics-honest runway behind Senator Marco Rubio. Why just today she went on CNN and explained that, all available evidence to the contrary, Willard Romney was seriously down with the folks at the NAACP convention. It can safely be said that, on Wednesday, at least, Romney was having a better day than Carroll was. Because, well, wowser: The allegations are part of the ongoing prosecution of Carletha Cole, a former aide to Carroll who shared a recording of a conversation with Carroll&amp;#039;s chief of staff with a reporter for the Florida Times-Union, a Jacksonville newspaper, after she was fired. Cole has been charged with disclosing that recorded conversation. Cole&amp;#039;s motion, filed in response to the state&amp;#039;s efforts to keep some records sealed, portrays a dysfunctional office where Carroll&amp;#039;s aides frequently recorded conversations and the lieutenant governor pushed for a website where fans could follow her. It also says Steve MacNamara, former chief of staff for Gov. Rick Scott, viewed Carroll as a &amp;quot;loose cannon,&amp;quot; in the words of the filing. There isn&amp;#039;t a single thing in that story within 10 miles of which any rising political star would like to find herself, and that especially includes the fact that the whole mess turns on what somebody may have leaked to a reporter, which means that every media outlet in the state is going to be there to record every salacious word. Read the whole thing, as the kidz say. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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