FLORIDA GOVERNOR FACES A POLITICAL MESS.(MAIN)

Byline: New York Time

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Gov. Lawton Chiles of Florida, who has taken pride in running clean campaigns for nearly four decades, now finds his ethics being questioned a year after what he said would be his final run for elective office.

After months of denials, the Democratic governor's top political advisers admitted over the last several days that they authorized a blitz of scare telephone calls to elderly citizens just before last year's election.

The callers, who lied about their identities, told as many as 680,000 elderly Floridians that the Republican nominee, Jeb Bush, had cheated on his taxes and that Bush's running mate …