During the candidates’ gubernatorial debate Monday evening in Florida, Alex Sink broke the rules and accepted coaching advice from a campaign staffer via a cell phone text message delivered by a makeup assistant during a commercial break. Almost immediately, Sink acknowledged the indiscretion and fired the staffer, Brian May.
“While he told me it was out of anger with Rick Scott’s repeated distortion of facts, it was a foolish thing to do,” Ms. Sink said, in a statement regarding May’s dismissal from the campaign.
But Tuesday evening, reports theblaze.com, Sink seemed to change her tone and, during an appearance on MSNBC, she claimed that she had not known the message from makeup artist was related to the debate or that it had been sent by a member of her staff when she accepted it:
But CNN, the network which hosted the Monday night debate, is saying not so fast. CNN‘s John King who had moderated the debate told Wolf Blitzer that Sink’s latest account is not at all what happened Monday night. According to King, the makeup artist told Sink the message was from “the staff,” and Sink knew it was a political message before she accepted it:
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