Bush role in end-of-life dispute as governor now 2016 issue
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI (AP) — Jeb Bush was preparing to release the emails he sent and received as Florida governor when he was excoriated by a letter-writer to The Miami Herald. The headline: “Don’t trust Jeb Bush with the power of the presidency.” The subject of many of the emails was Terri Schiavo. The letter-writer was her husband, Michael.
Bush’s effort to stop Michael Schiavo from removing his brain-damaged wife’s feeding tube was a defining moment of Bush’s time in office.
Bush, a devout Catholic, sided with Terri Schiavo’s parents in the end-of-life dispute and reached for unprecedented authority to intervene. Michael Schiavo said his wife did not want to be kept alive artificially.
As Bush moves toward a run for president in 2016, Michael Schiavo has re-emerged, promising to campaign against Bush and remind voters about the ex-governor’s role in the matter.
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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/02/15/bush_role_in_end_of_life_dispute_as_governor_now_2016_issue/
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rocktivity
THIS we must NEVER forget!!!!
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Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo was not to be removed from her hospice, a team of state agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted -- but they stopped short when local police told them they would enforce the judge's order...
(Judge) Greer signed (the) order Wednesday afternoon forbidding (the Department of Children & Families) from ''taking possession of Theresa Marie Schiavo or removing her'' from the hospice. He directed ''each and every and singular sheriff of the state of Florida'' to enforce his order. But Thursday, at 8:15 a.m., DCF lawyers appealed Greer's order to judges at the Second District Court of Appeal in Lakeland. That created the window of time to seize Schiavo.
Gov. Jeb Bush had planned to use a wrinkle in Florida law that would have allowed them to legally get around the judge's order. The exception in the law allows public agencies to freeze a judge's order whenever an agency appeals it...When DCF filed its appeal, it effectively froze the judge's Wednesday order...It took nearly three hours before the judge found out and canceled the automatic stay...
In the end, the squad from the (Florida Division of Law Enforcement) and the (DCF) backed down, apparently concerned about confronting local police outside the hospice...''We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in,'' said a source with the local police...
The cops knew who would get the credit if Jeb's plan succeeded, and who would get the blame if it failed. So the state cops tipped off the local cops, the hospice, and the media, then sat back and "let the system work"!
rocktivity
P.S. And let's not forget that Jeb also tried to launch an investigation after the fact...
