Florida Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll the “first African-American Republican woman to be part of a statewide ticket in Florida.””, ardent Romney supporter, and a leading force on the states task force on the controversial “Stand Your Ground” law has become part s scandal involving accusations of improprieties that allege that she is having an lesbian affair with an aide while in office.

From the Miami Times:

A former staffer of Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll said she was fired last year after she caught her former boss and another female aide in “a compromising position” in Carroll’s office, according to a court filing.

In a July 5 court filing Carletha Cole alleges that the lieutenant governor fired her shortly after she walked in on the Republican leader and her travel aide, Beatriz Ramos, in what can only be described as a “compromising position,” Shortly afterwards Cole was on charges she illegally leaked taped conversations of Carroll’s staff to a Florida newspaper reporter.

Cole, has for months been publicly calling for Carroll’s impeachment, on grounds that the she practices “nepotism” and misuses her office “for sexual escapades.”

Republican women’s group are rallying around Carroll, and denouncing Cole as a “charlatan”, claiming that she is using her accusations to defend herself against the charges that the Lt. Governor has brought against her, and that she’s a Barack Obama supporter.

Many thanks to Herndon Davis