A YEAR AGO, ORLANDO WEEKLY SAID DYER WAS 'CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH AS BILL CLINTON'. APPARENTLY SO.

Suspended Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said the charges that he and three others violated state law are without merit and are politically motivated.

Dyer, Circuit Judge Alan Apte, Dyer's campaign manager Patti Sharp and campaign consultant Ezzie Thomas are charged with violating a law enacted after Miami's 1998 mayoral election was thrown out because of fraud committed in the collection of absentee ballots. A grand jury indicted them Thursday. More...