Monday night's gubernatorial debate between Democrat Alex Sink and Republican Rick Scott was no doubt nasty, and things got even nastier for Sink afterwards when she fired a staffer who broke the debate rules.
Sink said she "immediately removed" a campaign aide who tried to send her a cell phone text message during a break in the CNN debate in Tampa, which violated the rules Sink and Scott had set for the debate.
"After the debate tonight, one of my campaign advisors admitted he tried to communicate with me during one of the breaks,” Sink said in a statement. “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. "
Scott had mentioned the so-called cheating after the commercial break, accusing Sink of not playing by the rules.
"First Alex, you say you always follow the rules," Scott said. "The rule was no one was supposed to give us messages during the break, and your campaign did with an iPad or an iPod."
The aide was not named by Sink's campaign.
