The criminal case against Ray Sansom, the former speaker of our state House, has not gone smoothly.

A judge threw out the guts of the case in the fall. On Wednesday, the prosecutor switched to Plan B and came up with new charges.

Now, make no mistake. The courts are not saying:

"We think it's great that Ray got a bunch of state money for a community college, and then that school gave him an unadvertised, $110,000 'part-time' job the same day he became speaker."

Here, also, is not what the courts are saying:

"We think it's hunky-dory that Ray put $6 million into the state budget for a school building that looks suspiciously like an aircraft hangar that a buddy in private business wanted."

Lastly, here's one more thing the courts are not saying:

"We think it was perfectly fine for Ray and the school's president to arrange a sneaky trustees meeting in Tallahassee, 150 miles away, to talk about stuff."

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