Jeb hires a values man

Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday defended hiring a former newspaper editor who left his job in November amid public allegations of plagiarism and sexual harassment.

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Bush was in Washington, D.C., last week when it was reported that his office had hired Brown as a staff writer Dec. 20 at an annual salary of $80,000. In that post, Brown will write speeches, letters to the editor and other material for the governor.
The Ledger article

Although it may not be original.

Jacksonville Democratic Rep. Audrey Gibson said Tuesday that she was "very surprised" that Bush was "relying on someone whose credibility is in question. The foundation is shaky."

Gibson, who is black, said Brown's viewpoints concerned her. In 2000, Times-Union newsroom employees wrote a letter protesting an editorial Brown wrote that called the era of slavery in the United States "merely a small and shrinking part of the human condition." The editorial said the effects of slavery "are not permanent."

The Times-Union published a clarification after national commentators harshly criticized the editorial. Brown later told a reporter, "We did not intend to downplay the terrible aspects of slavery in America."

You just misconstrued the meaning of his words.

[...] Billee Bussard, wrote a lengthy article in Folio Weekly, a Jacksonville weekly newspaper [...]titled "Porn, Hypocrisy, Plagiarism: The Dark Side of Jacksonville's Daily," Bussard claimed Brown viewed Internet pornography in the paper's office beginning in 1995.

In 1998, after Bussard aired her concerns at the paper, Brown signed a letter saying he had sought help with "an outside counselor for his addiction to the Internet and possession of pornography."

DiPietre said last week that the letter Brown signed addressed pornographic material "only in the context of inappropriate, unsolicited e-mails he had gotten and deleted."

But got addicted to before he deleted them, I guess.

Last week, Bush fired Terry White, the head of the Department of Elder Affairs, for unspecified allegations of sexual harassment.

And replaced him with a porno addict who's also accused of sexual harassment.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.