Gawker calls b.s. on Jeb Crow Shrub's "transparency" document dump, files FOIA for the good stuff
What's been the most surprising so far has been how hollow his being "the smart one" has been, with all his fumbling: Predictable inside-the-box rollout, hokey campaign slogans, hiring an inept and tin ear-ed "communications"/tech dude who had to resign the next day, including personal data in the dump, revisiting his entitled arrogance -- but who's counting?!1 l added, when he announced his fake transparency document dump that what he *wasn't* releasing were the good stuff that we really want to know, his myriad crooked businesses and partnerships with 1stGenCubanExile/CIA dudes, the suitcases full of cash being loaded onto private planes, etc. Poppy's angry "My boys have a *right* to make a living!1" bears repeating.
My recurring nightmare for years has been that "the smart one" would run, but there's a glimmer of hope that he's not all that.
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[font size=5]Jeb Bush's Email Transparency Is a Total Joke[/font]
Written by Sam Biddle
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 he released were from a public-facing account that he used primarily to communicate with random constituents, not to actually govern. It's as though he released his spam inbox and proclaimed it as a window into his soul. If Bush really wants to make a statement, he'll give us the data that actually matters.
In addition to being filled with personally identifiable information that his constituents sent to him in the hopes of resolving their various troubles with state agencies, Jeb Bush's big noble email dump is completely misleading. "In the spirit of transparency," Bush states on his new website, "I am posting the emails of my governorship here." But all that he's made available is the contents of one email account—jeb@jeb.org. 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 (his official account was like some variant of [name]@eog.state.fl.us). The emails the public has been given are as much "the emails of [his] governorship" as my ancient live.com inbox would be "the emails of my Gawker job." It's a ploy. ....
But if Bush is dedicated to transparency, and truly wants voters to be able to access his missives for voters to, as he put it in his bullshit self-doxxing announcement, "read them and make up your own mind," surely he won't mind releasing the emails that matter, right? Gawker has submitted a request under Florida's sunshine law to the Department of State (which is where the governor's office directed me), "seeking every email sent and received from Gov. Jeb Bush's official, state provided email account, for the duration of his term as governor of Florida." Given Bush's born-again openness, I've contacted his leadership PAC with a request for a privacy waiver permitting Florida to process the emails without redacting the important information he thinks we should have, in the name of transparency, which he obviously cares about because he released all those emails.
And since Bush's commitment to transparency is so strong that he was willing to sacrifice the privacy interests of dozens and perhaps hundreds of his former constituents by publishing their social security numbers, health data, and telephone numbers, Gawker has also submitted Freedom of Information Act requests for Jeb Bush's files at the IRS, Social Security Administration, and FBI, and have asked him to provide a personal privacy waiver in those cases, too.
Gawker salutes Jeb Bush and his dedication to an informed electorate. We can't wait to see full picture of his governorship, and make up our own minds, and look forward to his help in bringing this important information about his tenure to the public.
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