Gov. Charlie Crist bragged the other night that all his chiefs of staff have
been from Broward County, forming a "Broward County connection."

Accused Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein was from there as well. And he gave
loads of money to Crist and the Republican party. Did George LeMieux (now a
Sen.) Eric Eikenberg (now on the Crist Sen. campaign) and current chief Shane
Strum ever say anything? We don't know about the last two. They didn't return
calls for comment.

LeMieux said he wondered where Rothstein's money came from, but didn't want
to "criticize" someone who was so generous. LeMieux lamented the "culture of
corruption" in South Florida as well. More here
on all that.

-- Marc Caputo