Discussion: Jeb Bush CTO Resigns Over Online Rants About Women, Gays, MLK

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Still, the fact that you guys forced this man to resign only AFTER much fair media coverage of what he tweets–and obviously believes–shows that a) You don’t properly vet folks; b) You don’t care that these are the man’s views on other human beings; or c) You agree with the man’s beliefs. Not very positive options, there, Mr. Bush.

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I’m going with all of the above.

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Jeb Bush Tech Officer Resigns Over Online Rants About Women, Gays, MLK

Next guy to be no better-- just anonymous online.

jw1

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Jeb is “W” in disguise.

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This is the pool of young Republicans techies that bush has to choose from. Our team may as well start vetting his potential picks now before the rest of them attempt to erase themselves also.
The not old and smarmy yet Republicans aren’t their grandparents sort of conservatives, these are the hateful, greedy, hell-bent on their version of the constitution and bible, uncompromising goofs with on-line pasts.
The on-line past part is the death knell that goes off the second that a potential campaign team member is chosen. The cyber trail is more damaging than their Wiki page.
Jeb has also chosen Condoleeza Rice, I think as his education czar, so that puts bush and modern conservatives in perspective. The old Cheneyesque crew compiled with the new Romney/Ryand type of thinkers. Jebs words are hollow compared to the depth of “conservatism” that is being displayed.

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They are all like this…he just said it out loud.

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I am hoping upon hope that the rest of the ‘klown kar’ hammers JEB on this during the primaries. Ethan Czahor was a direct indictment of JEB’s ability to choose good people to work with him and for the country.

Have at it guys.

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Bush is off to a fabulous start.

An article I read yesterday about how Bush asked FL. to release all his emails and correspondences of private citizens while he was Governor has also landed with a thud. In an effort to show how transparent he is using FL’s sunshine laws, he has found himself tangled in another real debacle. The release of documents were done on thousands of pages, with a correction having occurred once the information was already out there and probably easily archived for whoever wants to use it. The documents were released to his website with non-redacted Social Security numbers, private phone #s, home addresses of FL. citizens, and information regarding people’s private medical background among other things.

Here’s the article on this campaign blunder.

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Hi everybody! Listen to Jeb’ campaign song!

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Czanor The Dateless tweets get answered

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And the Bushies are busily trying to blame it on Florida.

This is some Olympic caliber incompetence, if you ask me. If didn’t occur even one person that there might be confidential information in those e-mails?

Holy smokes. And he wants to be president?

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Czahore - Roger Ailes on line 1 for you.

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How can you that the folks who gave us Sarah Palin don’t vet properly, if at all?

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In my experience, moderate Republicans believe it’s wrong to air racist and sexist views in public, but take no particular exception their utterance in private. Which means, of course, it’s going to take them a couple of days to realize that a takedown and a nonpology weren’t going to fix this. And, odds are, he’ll be back working for Jebbie within months, whether as an independent contractor or back on official staff once enough time has elapsed for them to use the very special Republican “old news” defense.

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It is like the bush zombie has returned.

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i imagine the guy was vetted. they must have known his attitudes and opinions. they didn’t care. this after the social security email debacle. no prob, it was already in the public domain. cool. is jeb’s ss# in the public domain? i’m sure if it its, he would have no problem having it distributed.

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Well, the only problem with that is that the rest of them probably read the tweets and thought, “Huh? Don’t see the problem.” But between the fact that he did (finally) have to let the guy go and the debacle of the FL email release, the ammunition is certainly piling up. And it’s only February of '15.

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And don’t expect this to get much more than cursory attention in the mainstream media. The media wants to make it look like he was decisive in moving to have this technology operations guy resign. They simultaneously talk about trouble in Hilaryland, even though roughly the same amount of time elapsed in both instances to deal with any problems. Its easy to see the double-standard already taking shape.

The corporate media have already decided the narrative is that Bush is billing himself as an innovative candidate when it comes to technology, and that’s the irony here. They’re already saying he was a big proponent on this in FL. when he was Governor. They left out that he just doesn’t seem very good at it however. What he’s really trying to do is rip-off President Obama’s mojo in this area I suspect, by imitating Obama’s popularity and complete ease with all forms of online communication, while Faux mocks the President on his use of same to get his message out.

This story and the one about the document dump just proves its really a false narrative from the start.

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I’d like to question J. Bush and ask if he was surprised by IT Moran’s views. This behavior just doesn’t pop up out of the blue.

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