Doug Guetzloe, one of central Florida’s most prominent political operatives and subject of investigations by the Florida Elections Commission and a highway agency in Orlando, had long eluded criminal charges by denying any knowledge of unethical activities in which prosecutors were sure he was involved.

But late last year, Guetzloe missed a payment on his rental storage locker, and 50 boxes of his personal and professional records were seized and auctioned for $10 to a curious citizen, who then gave them to Orlando’s WKMG-TV, which had several earlier investigations of Guetzloe pending.

Based on early readings of the storage-locker papers, Guetzloe was indicted for felony perjury in March, and the case continues.

Election foul ups

I didn’t know you had to mark all the boxes when you were picking ONE candidate? Apparently a badly trained Kentucky election worker didn’t either because he physically tossed a voter out of a polling station in Louisville on Election Day because he hadn’t marked all the offices on his ballot.

Then there’s the case of a voter in Allentown, Pa., was arrested after he suddenly erupted in the voting booth and began pounding the machine with a paperweight. He must have thought it was a vending machine that didn’t give him his goods?

Wow how could this happen? In elections for sheriff, Chris Abril was elected in Polk County, N.C., despite his arrest in August on years-old charges of statutory rape, which Abril said he would straighten out as one of his first orders of business. Yeah, probably to have the charges dismissed.

Then there’s, Rick Magnuson who was soundly defeated for sheriff of Aspen, Colo., after “all of my skeletons (were) exposed,” he said, in the course of the campaign. Among the skeletons was a stint in alcohol rehab; his unauthorized use of a criminal database; his onetime letters to Osama bin Laden as part of an “art project.”