We now know that Alex Sink, who lost to Rick Scott in the 2010 gubernatorial race, will not chance a ballot-box hat trick and run again against David Jolly in November for his Congressional District 13 seat. Even though there are supporters and consultants who have urged her to try again.
In an ironic sort of way, however, the names of Sink, Charlie Crist and Scott belong together on the Nov. 4 ballot.
Call it six degrees of separation. Or just call it politics, Florida style. The names Sink, Crist and Scott are endurably linked.
Had it not been for Sink running that awful campaign, Scott would not be governor. And had it not been for Crist abandoning his economically-blindsided state when it needed him most, there would never have been a Scott candidacy.