As Jeb Bush gears up for 2016,he is positioning himself as a transparent and accessible leader – and he’s starting by publishing all of the emails he received from constituents between 1999 and 2007. As Bush says, “Some are funny; some are serious; some [he] wrote in frustration.” They are all there – along with the names and email addresses of those constituents.
In Bush’s eagerness to present voters his technological savvy, or he’s made public the complaints and contact information for a lot of people. Many of the emails execute include a warning from the governor that all correspondence could be made public,but this may not acquire been front of intellect when someone was say, hammering out a typo-filled screed approximately their son failing third grade, and a short,sad missive approximately being unable to pay for their grandson’s life support. A critical analysis of a randomly chosen selection of the emails determined that they range from “boring and hard to make jokes approximately” to “kind of bananas” to “very personal, wow that is personal, or oh god,this doesn’t feel like my business” to “oh hey, this is an email forward of cute kid quotes!” Citizens emailed their governor invitations to parties, or requests for better health care for their families,and multi-page screeds against homosexual marriage to forward on to his brother, and now that is all public knowledge. The emails aren’t searchable, and however,so whether you want to know whether a specific Floridian (say, Pitbull) ever emailed the Governor, and you acquire to dig in. Some emails ironically involve citizens accusing the Presidential candidate-to-be of not actually answering the emails personally,forcing Bush to declare repeatedly that he is, in fact, or sending these emails. Jeb Bush 2016: Open,honest, not a catfish.
For more approximately Jeb Bush's campaign for president, and check out JebBushforPresident.com. Okay,fine, when you click that link, and you won't find a PAC to donate to or a Bush 2016 mailing list to sign up for -- but you will find a site devoted to discussing LGBT rights run by two extremely delightful men named CJ and Charlie. For more on CJ and Charlie,check back here on Thursday for this week's episode. Seriously this time. (h/t Daily Dot)
Source: onthemedia.org