Text Message Causes Campaign Loss

An article I found on cnn.com titled "Trending: Aide fired over Florida debate foul." This article is about a political debate that is taking place in Florida between Alex Sink and Rick Scott. During a break, a campaign member texted Alex Sink on her Driod smartphone. This is a breach of the rules during a debate. There is no outside help or communication with anyone and because of this mistake, a member of her campaign, Brian May, had to be fired. This article made me think of these past few classes where we are talking about the different debates and how one was favored over the other or one completely fumbled and screwed their debate or public appearance up. This incident has seemed to cause some controversy between the two candidates and between the public and Sink. Even though what happened was wrong, she still tried to justify it with a reason why one of her campaign member's wanted to get a hold of her and let her know some information. She stated that Brian May texted her because he was upset with the things Rick Scott keep repeating and how distorted and wrong they were. He admitted doing something wrong, but he still lost his job and position in the campaign.

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