Crist denies tryst

Apparently there's something in the Floridian GOP water. Is any Florida Republican not involved in some sort of scandal or linked to someone notorious?

21-year-old GOP staffer Jason Wetherington, a rising young star in the Republican Party, has boasted of a sexual relationship with Charlie Crist, the frontrunner in the Florida governor's race who has repeatedly denied that that he is gay. Wetherinton told friends at separate social functions in August that he had sex with Crist, according to two credible and independent sources who heard Wetherington make the claim first-hand.

Wetherington, who recently worked as a field director for U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris and currently works for state representative Ellyn Bodganoff's reelection campaign, also named a man whom he said is Crist's long-term partner, a convicted thief named Bruce Carlton Jordan who also recently worked for Harris in her long-shot Senate bid. Jordan made headlines recently when the Miami Herald learned that the felon was working as Harris's travel aide. The Herald also noted that Jordan(42) was reported to be close friends with Charlie Crist.