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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (304445)	10/4/2002 4:23:23 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Yes another chapter in the disgusting HYPOCRITICAL BUSH FAMILY HISTORY.... the scum governor whose daughter was just caught USING DRUGS IN REHAB..... SHE SHOULD BE IN JAIL and HE SHOULD BE OUT OF GOVERNMENT HOUSING Jeb Bush Slights Family of Missing Girl By The Associated Press Thursday, 3 October, 2002 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a delegation of lawmakers that he had ``some juicy details'' about the sexual orientation of a missing Miami girl's caretakers. During a meeting Wednesday, Bush implied that the two women, who had just been charged with fraud stemming from the investigation into Rilya Wilson's disappearance, were lesbians. ``As (Pamela Graham) was being arrested, she told her co-workers, 'Tell my wife I've been arrested.' The wife is the grandmother, and the aunt is the husband,'' Bush explained, using his fingers to indicate quotation marks to emphasize the word ``grandmother.'' ``Bet you don't get that in Pensacola,'' Bush told his guests, a group of lawmakers from Florida's Panhandle. An attorney for one of the two women called the governor's comments ``outrageous'' and said the women are sisters, not a lesbian couple. The women, Geralyn and Pamela Graham, were charged Wednesday with stealing more than $14,000 in public assistance. They were not charged in the disappearance of Rilya, who was missing 15 months before the state Department of Children & Families realized in April she was gone. She would have turned six last Sunday. The Rilya case threw a spotlight on the DCF, leading top child welfare administrators to quit and a blue-ribbon committee to examine the agency. But six months after the agency reported Rilya missing, the $75,000 reward for finding the little girl remains unclaimed, and no criminal charges have been filed. Elizabeth Hirst, spokeswoman for Bush, said Thursday said the governor ``relayed details and factual information regarding the arrests of Rilya's caretakers. He intended no offense and continues to focus on the safe return of young Rilya.'' But Joshua Fisher, Pamela Graham's attorney, called the governor's comments ``outrageous'' and ``disgusting.'' ``He's making jokes when there is still a missing baby here, or doesn't he care?'' Fisher said Thursday. He said he is trying to get paperwork, including birth certificates, that will prove the women are sisters, not a couple. Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, the state's largest gay and lesbian advocacy group, called the comments ``childish'' and ``locker room homophobia.'' Bush made his remarks to three Republican Panhandle legislators, two GOP state House candidates and aides during a meeting in the governor's office. He apparently did not realize a reporter with Gannett Regional Newspapers of Florida accompanied the group. His comments were first reported in Wednesday's editions of the Pensacola News-Journal. ``It was a nonevent,'' said Dave Murzin, the GOP nominee in state House District 2, who was at the meeting. ``It wasn't any big deal to us. Really, all of us were there for more important stuff.'' GOP state Rep. Greg Evers said Bush simply informed the group about the arrests and ``he didn't make any innuendo or insinuations about anybody.''