Florida‘s penchant for the weird and strange — often manifested in new ways of criminal behavior (think chasing people through a store with a live alligator) — is so prevalent it’s created a cottage industry of chroniclers and followers.

But like a contagion that has escaped a hermetically-sealed lab, the swamp fever of Florida weirdness appears to be spreading now to the politicians who represent the state’s nearly 21 million residents.
Over the past week, a legislative candidate staged an elaborate scam to try to convince people she was a college graduate.

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