Jeb Bush to Focus on Daughter’s Struggles With Drugs

[Judi Lynn]

Source: New York Times

Jeb Bush to Focus on Daughter’s Struggles With Drugs
10:10 am ET
By Ashley Parker

DERRY, N.H. — Jeb Bush, who promised to run for president by showing voters his heart, is making an especially personal appeal in New Hampshire on Tuesday, where he plans to discuss his daughter’s struggles with addiction.

Speaking at a forum on addiction and the heroin epidemic at Southern New Hampshire University in the afternoon, Mr. Bush will not only unveil his drug control strategy but also talk about how his family has intimately experienced the ravages of addiction.

In a post on Medium previewing his speech, Mr. Bush wrote in deeply personal terms about his daughter Noelle, who in 2002 was found with crack cocaine while at a rehabilitation center in Florida. She had been arrested earlier that year when she tried to use a fraudulent prescription to buy anti-anxiety pills.

“As a father, I have felt the heartbreak of drug abuse,” Mr. Bush wrote. “My daughter Noelle suffered from addiction, and like many parents facing similar situations, her mom and I struggled to help.”



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/05/jeb-bush-to-focus-on-daughters-struggles-with-drugs/

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Oh. I was expecting a "quitting to spend more time with his family" type of thing.

[randome]

10. First thing that occurred to me, too, but then I realized the headline would be much more explosive.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[marble falls]

2. When will he focus on his and W's little escapades with drugs in Houston...

why doesn't he unseal W's arrest record? Maybe talk about how W slept his way through Austin before he married Laura?

http://www.salon.com/1999/10/18/cocaine/

[enid602]

8. laura

But Laura ran over her prom date in a Corvaiir, so she has them all beat.

[yeoman6987]

15. She did not. Lol

They were in a car wreck that she caused.

[marble falls]

37. Laura drove through a stop sign and t-boned the guy that just....

broke up with her the week before, killing him.

[exboyfil]

3. Put this in perspective

This family has a large network of support both personally and financially. Still they have children who deal with drug issues.

Think about the level of accountability they expected from someone like 12 year old Tamir Rice or some addict who is on welfare/food stamps that is just struggling to survive with no support.

[RandySF]

4. Will he talk about

How he denied the same treatment thousands of Florians as governor?

[Human101948]

9. No, because this is a cynical ploy to gather votes...

He could give a shit about other people's kids.

Just like Christie with his sad, sad stories about his chainsmoking Mom and his "best friedn" who overdosed on prescription meds.

[RandySF]

5. What about his son, the Texas Railroad Commisioner,

who had a problem with stalking women?

[StevieM]

12. I hadn't heard that. What exactly did he do? (eom)

[RandySF]

13. I don't have a link handy right now.

But he was so obsessed with a girl who broke up with him that he claimed into her bedroom window in the middle, shirtless, in the middle of the night. And when her parents chased him off, he drove across their front lawn.

[pepperbear]

34. here's a link to the allegations...

"...Which is as good an excuse as any to revisit a police report detailing George P.’s creepy, stalkerish behavior towards a former girlfriend.

Back when he was a Rice University student, Bush was investigated for burglary and criminal mischief related to a 4 AM visit to the Miami home of his ex, Cristina Cohen, and her parents."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/george-p-bush/george-p-bush-stalking-758409

[SoLeftIAmRight]

6. why is she not in jail

???

[davidpdx]

47. She's from a white privileged family

[Tikki]

7. Some one I care about went through a government drug rehab program. It worked. This person has....

paid off every court debt and has paid back the government many, many times over.

This person is now very together, successful and content and drug, alcohol and tobacco free.

Thank you, the people of California, for helping.


Tikki

[niyad]

11. sorry for what she is going through, but how in the hell does that indicate his

qualifications to be president?

[NCjack]

40. Apparently he neglected his daughter, and that qualifies him to be prez. /nt

[niyad]

45. of course, how obtuse of me.

[Bigredhunk]

14. I Remember When She Was Arrested Years Ago

We were asked to respect the family's privacy while they were going through a difficult time (i.e., ask no questions about it, let them sweep it under the rug). Now that he's floundering, he's going to use her/it to try to boost his pathetic poll #'s. Vomit.

[AwakeAtLast]

48. Exactly what I thought

[csziggy]

16. This morning with the efforts to use Bill Clinton against Hillary

I commented to my husband that if Bill is fair game, then so is Jeb's wife, Columbia Bush. If Bill Clinton's misdeeds can be held against Hillary then Columbia's effort to smuggle stuff through US Customs and her extravagant shopping trips can be held against Jeb.

And if Jeb is going to attempt to appear sympathetic by trotting out his daughter's drug addictions the Noelle is fair game, too, in my opinion.

Noelle was let off with a suspended sentence for her prescription forgeries when she agreed to go to a drug treatment facility. Not only did she skip out more than once, she smuggled drugs INTO the hospital. Instead of locking her up the first time she violated her court agreement by sneaking out of the rehab hospital or even when they caught her with drugs inside the hospital, they gave her chance after chance after chance. She never spent one fucking day in jail - which is where she deserved to be after she blew off all the chances she was given because of her family's money and political influence.

Noelle is another case of affluenza and probably still taking advantage of every chance she gets without suffering the consequences of her poor choices.

[ProfessorPlum]

22. Columba n/t

[csziggy]

30. I should have checked it - was too pissed to care about Mrs. Bush's first name n/t

[marew]

23. Exactly!

Bush's wife attempted to smuggle $20,000 worth of jewelry and clothes into Florida after a Paris shopping trip when Jeb was gov.! She was busted! Heard Jebbie was mad- I'm sure- because she got caught! Guess Jebbie had told her Bush family members don't have to follow the rules like the rest of us peasants.

[niyad]

46. exactly

[Gus2525]

17. The rich and well connected get a "life coach," the poor go to jail

for such drug offenses.

[Arugula Latte]

26. Exactly.

Such a glaring double standard.

[Ivan Kaputski]

36. Exactly.

[MisterP]

49. it's a big filtering system

[FairWinds]

18. Notice how the white folks get all teary eyed . .

and simpatico when it is their own ethnicity that has
big-time drug issues.

They NEVER talk that way when it is minorities that are affected.

Veterans For Peace

[Solly Mack]

19. If someone else had brought up his daughter's drug abuse, he would have said leave kids out of this.

But he'll use his own daughter's addiction as a means to garner sympathy and votes.

Pathetic.

[Paladin]

20. Couldn't agree with you more.

Real bottom-of-the-barrel, desperation tactics from a principle-free, doomed campaign.

[tabasco]

21. What did Bush do in Florida to reform draconian drug laws and improve treatment for addicts?

I'm guessing nothing or just the opposite.

[ViseGrip]

24. Does he speak of the special treatment afforded her, that no one else gets? Like no jail?

She got to go to 'drug' court, outside of her jurisdiction cuz he closed many of them.
Then she got caught stealing drugs out of the cabinet in rehab!
Then she got caught with crack rocks in her shoes!

Her mom came back to the country from paris and lied about what she brought back. 20K worth of shit! She was first lady at the time. No way are they fit to be first family of the U.S.

NO WAY!

[Sunlei]

25. How come Jeb Bushs' arrested for crack & fraud scripts daughter never spent one day in jail?

'Regular people' arrested for crack cocaine/fraud drug scripts spend decades in jail. How did Bushes daughter get off all the felonies?

Even Jeb Bushes wife got off of charges trying to smuggle thousands of dollars of jewelry through airport customs

[truthisfreedom]

27. Crack cocaine? No jail time?

How does that work, Jeb!?

[valerief]

43. She's not black! That's how white supremacy works in the USA! USA! USA! nt

[restorefreedom]

28. hopefully this is the beginning of the end

variation of leaving to spend more time with family

expect a suspension announcement after iowa

[bobthedrummer]

29. Ah yes, the Bush family has quite an evil history of "loving the kids", "drug wars", and worse

Chapter 21-Omaha
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016139460

[reddread]

31. she might never have had a "problem" if Barry Seal had lived

but then again, her daddy and a few others might have.

https://www.google.com/#q=barry+seal

[forest444]

32. +1!

Considering their role in Air America and Iran-Cocaine-Contra, the Bushes can definitely chalk this up to instant karma.

[Archae]

33. You think Jeb will mention where Noelle is now?

I really doubt she's been clean and sober since then.

She's part of a rich "entitled" family.

[6chars]

35. "That's why I'm calling to decriminalize possession"

"In many cases drugs are harmful to users. We want to prevent that harm instead of pile more harm on top of it. Fortunately, my daughter was not declared a felon and with our help was able to reclaim her life. I propose a Manhattan project of addiction treatment, coupled with amnesty for users. We have suffered enough."

[Bucky]

38. Gee, I wonder what Trump's next jab at Bush is gonna be about.

You know, assuming by that point Jeb is still worth stomping on.

[keithbvadu2]

44. Waiting for Trump to blame the daughter's drug problems

on her Hispanic background.

[onecent]

39. Don't forget Jebbi's intervention in the Schiavo case.

I CAN'T say what I want to about it....suffice it to say he is a dick..I am glad he will NEVER BE PRESIDENT.

[CTyankee]

42. I remember that because at the same time my aged mother was dying in a

Dallas hospital and we had decided on a painless but non intervention death. She was old and it was time. She was 94. I held her hand and whispered that I was there while she slipped out of consciousness and she died shortly after.

Who knows what would have happened if we had Jeb's intervention type of pro-life crap.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

41. Yawn

I'm surprised Battle Axe Babs signed off on this, I thought JEB!'s failure as a candidate was enough without the desperation of bringing up her granddaughter's issues.

[libdem4life]

50. What crap...exposing an already dysfunctional daughter to get His name in the press. I'll be she's

really excited about her new position...Daddy's National Election Project.

[MADem]

51. He was the guy that Phillips Academy Andover kids went to when they wanted to buy a

chunk of hash. He was a dealer at his ritzy prep school. Just like Dime Bag Laura!

What happened to them? They should have stuck to things that grow from the ground!!!

[jomin41]

52. From the article:

"Mr. Bush’s plan to deal with the issue has four main components: preventing drug abuse and addiction, strengthening the criminal justice system, securing the southern border with Mexico to stop the flow of illegal drugs, and improving treatment and recovery programs."

Sounds like just more of the same shit to me.