Crist Won by 24. Now the Hard Part: The Trop, the Rays and Who Paid for the Win
St. Pete gets a new mayor Jan. 7. Between now and then: a Gas Plant deal that isn't final, a ballclub that says it's gone, and questions about the money behind the winner.
Analysis | "Poor People Don't Deserve" St. Pete: Inside the Schorsch Machine That Helped Elect Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist says he hired Michelle Todd Schorsch, not her husband. State records show his committee paid her firm, her husband's company and her personally $946,617, which is 41 cents of every dollar it spent. Then the husband told poor residents to move.