The yellow elephants are revealed by their pink elephants in Austin. Can you believe this?
Gainesville.com
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Article published Sep 16, 2005
Jeb Bush's son arrested for public intoxication, resisting arrest.
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AUSTIN John Ellis Bush, the youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, law enforcement officials in Texas said.
The 21-year-old nephew of President Bush was arrested by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission at 2:30 a.m. Friday on a corner of Austin's Sixth Street bar district, said spokesman Roger Wade.
John Ellis Bush was released on $2,500 bond for resisting arrest, and on a personal recognizance bond for the public intoxication charge, officials said.
Alia Faraj, the spokeswoman for Jeb Bush said the incident "is a personal family matter" which the governor and his wife "are dealing with privately."
Gov. Bush and his wife Columba appeared Friday evening at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida for a reception. The governor said it was not an appropriate time to discuss specifics of the incident.
"My son's doing fine. It's a private matter. We will support him. We're sad for him. But I'm not going to discuss it on the public square with 30 cameras," the governor said at the downtown Miami event.
It is one thing to go out and get rip roaring drunk but it is another to reist the authorities the way this appears to suggest. I am not saying that John-boy should publicly tie one on - it is America and he is 21 years old. Getting plastered is fine with me.
What is telling about this story is the resistance. He did it because he thought he was above reproach. The grandson of a Presidential dynasty and heir to a family tradition of taking from the public what it wants - completely amoralistically and loyal only to the faultless Bush family.
The Bush children have no inclination to serve for they live as their parents and the parents before them do. Not to serve but to be served.
Never mind that Uncle George has identified a noble cause in Iraq.
Never mind that recrutiting goals have not been met this year and the military is apparently short by 20,000 volunteers.
Nevermind that the nation's largest natural disaster has just struck our country. The Guard won't see a Bush volunteer.
Nevermind that victims are still near at hand in Texas and your volunteerism might inspire others.
Yes, young John Ellis Bush, your priorities are as expected - selfish in the extreme - just as the example set by your family. You come by it naturally. While other family's send their children to a thoughtless illegal war in the Middle East you down a cool tall one. My guess is that you never lifted your glass toasting the courage and sacrifice of others in your generation who are not so selfish or highly born.
John, your father said,
"My son's doing fine. It's a private matter. We will support him. We're sad for him. But I'm not going to discuss it on the public square with 30 cameras," the governor said at the downtown Miami event.
Your father displaying his family values for the constituency must be touching to you. But then you knew that he be there for you, just like for Noelle. Drugs and drunkenness the family values of the Bush aristocracy. But you need to remind daddy that when it is drugs and drunkenness it is not a family matter - it is public matter.
Enforcement of laws, adjusdication and dealing with you costs all of us something. That makes it a public matter and now part of our business.
When young fellers like you got into trouble with the law way back when, some judges would send you off to the military to rehabiliate you. Since it supposed to be a noble cause, this may be a very good suggestion for you.
I do know this, my niece's fiancee reported to Iraq last week. Being neither a drunk or highly born he did what his country needed and when your Uncle George said it was needed most. He volunteered. I honor and respect his sense of duty today.
And to you and your disfucntional family - piss on you and your lack of national commitment. Your actions are just another small way of hurting us at home while others die for your right to do so, which means they are dying for nothing.