New York Times BUSTS Jeb Bush For VIOLATING Florida Email Law [View all]

[kpete]

The New York Times has just busted Jeb Bush for not turning over the emails from his private account immediately after leaving office... but instead waiting a very, very long time to do so.

It was so long, in fact, that he was clearly in violation of Florida law!

Jeb Bush has rebuked Hillary Rodham Clinton for her use of a private email account as secretary of state, holding up his own conduct as an example of transparency in government.

But it took Mr. Bush seven years after leaving office to comply fully with a Florida public records statute requiring him to turn over emails he sent and received as governor, according to records released Friday.

Damn. And the media was just criticizing Hillary for taking four months to turn over all her emails after the State Department's request!

Mr. Bush delivered the latest batch of 25,000 emails in May 2014, seven and a half years after leaving the Statehouse and just as he started to contemplate a potential run for the White House, according to a newly disclosed letter written by his lawyer.

A Florida statute governing the preservation of public records requires elected officials, including the governor, to turn over records pertaining to official business “at the expiration of his or her term of office.”

“If they’ve been adding to it, it’s a technical violation of the law,” said Barbara A. Petersen, president of the First Amendment Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group in Florida that advocates access to government information.

She added, “The law clearly says you’re supposed to turn everything over at the end of your term in office.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/us/jeb-bush-a-clinton-critic-took-time-releasing-his-own-emails.html?_r=0
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/14/1370825/-Hahaha-NYT-Busts-Jeb-Bush-For-Violating-Florida-Email-Law


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AND, CHECK THIS OUT:
The New York Times Reverses Course On Clinton's Emails After Public Editor Admits Fault In Reporting
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/03/13/the-new-york-times-reverses-course-on-clintons/202894


AND THIS:

JEB BUSH'S 'EMAIL TRANSPARENCY' IS A TOTAL JOKE:

As part of presidential hopeful Jeb Bush's quest to counteract his last name, he released a trove of purportedly personal emails in the name of "transparency."

That's nice, but utterly symbolic: The emails Bush released were from a public-facing account that he used to communicate with random constituents, not to actually govern. It's like he released his spam inbox and proclaimed it as a window into his soul. If Bush wants to make a statement, he'll give us the data that actually matters.

Jeb Bush's big noble email dump is completely misleading.

All Bush made available to the public is the contents of one email account—[e-mail]. That domain was registered via GoDaddy in 1997 and is owned by his POLITICAL campaign operation—it is unaffiliated with the state of Florida or the office of governor. The emails the public has been given by Bush are garbage that have nothing to do with the official business dealings he had as governor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/us/jeb-bush-a-clinton-critic-took-time-releasing-his-own-emails.html?_r=0