First, Gov. Charlie Crist was auctioned off on eBay by his former party.
Now, he is being sued by an old rock band for using one of their songs without permission.
Billboard.com is reporting David Byrne of the Talking Heads is going after Crist for $1 million because the governor used the song "Road to Nowhere" in an ad that targeted GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio earlier this year.
The lawsuit, filed in Tampa, claims Crist and his campaign should pay what other companies have offered to use the song in television and radio commercials: a cool million.
The lawsuit does not ask for damages on hair color enfringement (is it just us or does Crist and Byrne look eerily similar).
We're not sure if Byrne is a Republican and this is a way to get back at Crist for his independent flip flop, but the old rocker seems pretty bent out of shape about the use of his song.
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His people contacted the Crist campaign and told them to stop using the song, and the governor obliged. Then came the lawsuit anyway.
"I was pretty upset by that," Byrne told Billboard. "In my opinion, the damage had already been done by it being out there. People that I knew had seen (the ad), so it had gotten around."
Unfortunately, Rubio can't even chime in and call his political rival a song thief along the lines of Napster. The Miami native is caught up in his own song-stealing scandal with another has-been rock band.
Rubio used the Steve Miller Band's 1976 hit "Take the Money and Run" in an ad about Crist without permission. The band didn't sue, but forced the Rubio campaign to stop running the ad.
Maybe both candidates should look into copyright law or, at the very least, update their iPods.
