October 4, 2002


JEBBIE IN HOT WATER AGAIN
And it doesn't have anything to do with a hot tub party with twins! Or crack pipes!

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP ) - Those wacky compassionate conservatives - you gotta love 'em. Florida Gov. and hanky mascot 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, Jeb! 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,'' the Jebster told his guests, which were not a bunch of drunken highschool boys, but a group of lawmakers from Florida's Panhandle.

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 the women are sisters and not a lesbian couple. He said he is trying to get paperwork, including birth certificates, that will prove that.

Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, the state's largest gay and lesbian advocacy group, called the comments "childish'' and "locker room homophobia.''

Way to go, butthead!

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