Sink Advisor fired over sent message

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Sink fires advisor who sent message during her televised debate with Rick Scott
http://www.tampabay.com/news/sink-fires-advisor-who-sent-message-during-her-televised-debate-with-rick/1130370

One of the ground rules in the debate between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink was that the gubernatorial candidates could not receive communications from their campaigns while the one-hour show was underway, but Sink got just such a message.

A makeup artist, during a commercial break, showed her a phone with a message coaching her on an answer.

After leaving the show, Sink's campaign put out a news release announcing that the aide had been fired.

Quoting Sink, it said: "After the debate tonight, one of my campaign advisors admitted he tried to communicate with me during one of the breaks. While he told me it was out of anger with Rick Scott's repeated distortion of facts, it was a foolish thing to do. It violated a debate agreement and I immediately removed him from the campaign.''



http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/25/florida-debate-foul/

[WhiteTara]

1. no good deed

goes unpunished

[lpbk2713]

2. Was it actually "underway" if it was during a break?

I know Scott would have defended the underling instead of firing him.