Michael Schiavo condemned Jeb Bush's interference into his family's privacy in a blistering letter in the Miami Herald in February, 2015.
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The truth about Jeb Bush is that he used my wife for his own personal political gain. You don’t have to be a doctrinaire liberal to be angry about that. In fact many conservatives were also horrified by Bush’s zealous intervention.
What Bush did was disgraceful and hurtful. He abused the power of government to impose his personal religious beliefs on me and my family. He made life miserable for my family, the doctors and staff at the nursing home, the police — all because he wanted to involve himself in something that both the law and common human decency told him that no government official should have gotten involved in.
And every time he should have stopped, he went further: signing unconstitutional laws; sending state law enforcement to seize my wife; using his brother, the president, to get Congress involved; and making me out to be a monster.
When his own family came under scrutiny, when his daughter was charged with illegally purchasing Xanax, he pleaded for privacy for his family — privacy that he never considered my family to be worthy of.
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After Terri died in 2005, that Bush ba$%^#d went after Michael Schiavo, in a sniping vendetta, asking the Florida state attorney to investigate whether Michael had waited too long to call 911 after Terri collapsed in the early 1990s.
From
2005:
.....Though
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, an
autopsy confirmed that she had been.
“It’s one thing to have your own personal beliefs,” Felos (Michael Schiavo's attorney) said, “It’s quite another to use your official powers and your official office to subvert the court and the lawful process.”
He 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.
Michael Schiavo, nearly a decade later, said he believes Jeb Bush’s intervention was a purely political move and an act of buffoonery. “If you want a government that’s gonna be intrusive and interfere in your personal life, vote for Bush. If you want to live like that, want people to interfere in your personal lives, then vote for him,” he said.
Fast forward to June, 2015:
Jeb Bush already
asserted after his recent European tour that his views are not going to change.
.....In the past six months, Bush has made clear he will remain committed to his core beliefs in the campaign to come — even if his positions on immigration and education standards are deeply unpopular among the conservative base of the party that plays an outsized role in the GOP primaries.
"I'm not going to change who I am," Bush said as he wrapped up a week-long European trip this weekend. "I respect people who may not agree with me, but I'm not going to change my views because today someone has a view that's different.".....
No. He respects no one, and nothing that does not align with his personal beliefs.
This domineering, rigidly ideological bully must never be allowed anywhere near the White House.
And you are right, Dawson Leery. The swing voters and everyone else must be reminded of this whole shameful episode of King Jeb's rule.
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