Ray Sansom's career in the Florida Legislature is over, sunk by ethics complaints and criminal charges, but the Ray Sansom conspiracy machine is fueled up, revved up and still chugging merrily along.

We first heard from the conspiracy crowd in late 2008, soon after questions were raised about Mr. Sansom's cozy ties to Northwest Florida State College. The real villains, we were told, were politicians and newspaper editors in South Florida who didn't want somebody from North Florida in charge of the House of Representatives.

The conspiracy-by-geography argument never caught on. A conspiracy-by-party argument replaced it.

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