For all of the talk about Hillary Clinton using private email for official correspondence when she was U.S. Secretary of State, likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush also used private email for official correspondence when he was Florida's chief executive:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush owns the server that runs jeb@jeb.org, the personal email account he used as governor to conduct official, political and personal business.
Asked who controls the server that operates that email address, Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell responded: “He owns it.”
The server was housed in a state-owned office building during the years that Bush served as governor, from 1999 until early 2007. A Bush source familiar with the situation said there were “digital security” measures in place to protect Bush’s emails, but declined to elaborate on how the server and its data were physically and digitally kept from harm. The aide also declined to elaborate on whether the server was “homebrew,” as an email server housed in Hillary Clinton’s Chappaqua home was described by The Associated Press in a Wednesday report.
Using a personal email address and running the address on a personally owned can help protect emails from subpoenas and other legal actions.
I believe that using personal email accounts for government correspondence of any kind is highly unethical, regardless who does it. Also, I find it blatantly hypocritical that Republicans are blasting Hillary Clinton over her use of personal email for official correspondence, while one of the individuals who will likely run for the Republican presidential nomination, Jeb Bush, also used personal email for official correspondence.