The contract said no electronics as in phones, PDAs, iPads, recording devices, etc. a fan is not an electronic device. Basically, Scott won in a close election in 2010 because his opponent Alex Sink was caught looking at her phone during a debate. It was a very close election and that debate controversy worked in Scott's favor. I assume he thought he could pull the same thing against Crist and feign outrage. It obviously backfired against Scott and now his camp has backtracked.