Jeb Bush, the man who would be king president, has so many skeletons in his closet that I can't imagine that he'll actually run. This is just one more reason why it is unlikely. In an interview with Think Progress, Michael Schiavo and his attorney at the time, George Felos remind us of how far the former Florida governor is willing to go to impose his own personal agendas on us all, the law and courts be damned.
More from the interview below the squiggle.
Though Michael Schiavo got a court order in 2002 to remove his wife’s feeding tube — he said his wife had not wanted to be kept alive artificially — Jeb Bush intervened, pushing the state legislature to pass an unconstitutional bill in a special session giving him authority to order the feeding tube reinserted. When a state judge ordered it removed again, Felos told ThinkProgress, Bush “manipulated the organs of state government in order to try to evade the court order.”
“Through the Dept. of Children and Family Services and through the Department of Law Enforcement they tried in the courts to ignore the higher court pronouncements – this was documented in an article by the Miami Herald,” he recalled, though, “when local authorities said you’re going to have to go through us in order to get her, and the state law enforcement agency backed down.”
They remind us that
Bush, then-U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist (R-TN), and social conservative activists protested that Terri Schiavo was not in a persistent vegetative state. Later, an
autopsy confirmed that she had been.
But even after Bush failed in his attempt to override the law and the courts, he wasn't finished.
He [Felos] also recalled that after Schiavo’s death, Jeb Bush went after Michael Schiavo personally, asking the state’s attorney to investigate whether he had called 911 fast enough. “It was very odd, almost like a personal vendetta the governor had towards Michael Schaivo.” The state’s attorney found no evidence against him and closed the case. “The propriety of using your office to hunt and harass people, as the governor did to Mr. Schiavo after his wife’s death, I think raises significant questions about his judgment and his character,” Felos said.
The man is not only a disaster as a leader, he is a walking disaster politically. I just can't fathom that the Republican party would want to put him out there in the limelight as a serious candidate.
Link: Terri Schiavo’s Husband Speaks Out On Jeb Bush’s Presidential Bid