As noted earlier, Jennifer Carroll, the former lieutenant governor, has a predictably-timed book out. It’s called When You Get There. The promotional outtakes are enough to remind readers that this is no bliss-and-tell chronicle. Before she was ushered out of office over peripheral involvement in that veterans charity scam, she was a less-than-respected non-player in the Scott Administration.
In the writing process, she was as self-revealing as self-serving. To wit: “I was still wondering why he had chosen me. He never gave me a real answer to that question. I wasn’t one of the good old boys, and he was a millionaire with his own plane. Why me?”
Say what?
Why Jennifer Carroll? Well, for openers, how about an uber awkward, alabaster, outsider candidate seeking any and all campaign help by putting an attractive, black, female, Navy-vet, PR-practitioner on the ticket? How’s that for obvious niche? How’s that for disingenuous cluelessness?
Imagine, a tell-all book not owning up to that blatantly evident, demographic strategy? Makes you wonder who was helping with the PR.