Noelle Bush Case Sparks Legal Test

Miami Herald ^ | Sept. 23, 2002 | Peter Wallisten

[JulieRNR21]

FYI....this is a difficult situation especially at this time. Noelle and the entire family need our prayers.

[Fracas]

...For Jeb Bush, the timing of his daughter's troubles could not be worse. He is engaged in an increasingly heated reelection campaign that has already been characterized by negative attacks...

I'd like to slap Huffington! How nice of McBride 'not to make this an issue'. Grrrrr.

It will be interesting to watch this thread to see if Jeb-bashers show up.

[Robert_Paulson2]

"There is no record of police being called for violations involving patients other than Bush. "

looks like somebody at the center is singling bush out, for political reasons... probably one of janet renos drug addict whores...

doctors and counselors cannot be made to testify against patients... doctor patient information is confidential. That prosecutors would want to penetrate this legal relationship, is not surprising... but it won't happen. Bush or no bush...

They need to move the girl to betty ford... instead of a program where it is filled with democrat dirt diggers.

[JulieRNR21]

They need to move the girl to betty ford... instead of a program where it is filled with democrat dirt diggers.

Exactly....and the Dems seem to have great empathy for the Hollywood crowd that goes there.

I have felt for some time that the RATs are going to use Noelle's problem to attempt to hurt Jeb in November. I pray it backfires on them.

[patriciaruth]

Democrats are so vile. I could easily believe they planted the rock in Noelle's shoe and then called in the police and the newspapers, just to have an issue against the Bushes.

So, where's the article about Gore's son getting a DUI citation?

Frankly, I wish they'd leave all the kids alone, including Chelsea.

[puddly]

How ironic.

[weikel]

If the pols children end up in Betty Ford for drug offenses then the WOD will never end. No better they go to federal "bang me in the ass" prison until the WOD is over with the rest of the commoners. I have less sympathy for princesses who screw up their life than ghetto kids who screw up their life too.

[BlueAngel]

Maybe someone planted the drug in her shoe. I wonder what Noelle has to say about how the drug got there.

[Stone Mountain]

``Jeb's wildly inconsistent attitude on the issue -- treatment and privacy for his daughter, incarceration and public humiliation for everyone else -- is part and parcel of the galling hypocrisy that infects America's insane drug war on every level.''

Say what you want about Hufffington, but she's dead on here.

[Robert_Paulson2]

yup....

we need a paradigm shift.
9/11 has failed to refocus our priorities.

[patriciaruth]

Say what you want about Hufffington,

Opportunist, political gold digger, twit....

A personal impression. I met her once when she was married to the gay Republican.

[Robert_Paulson2]

as much as I agree with you on the matter of ending the WOD... I have to acknowlege, it isn't going to anytime soon.

Reducing collateral damage is the best we can hope for.
I think this "program" is state run. I suspect we could do better for folks if the state programs were ended and private ones were the sentencing of choice.

They always do more with less. Private operations that is.
State run programs, are manned by bureaucrats who will use their position to hurt folks they don't like politically.

All bureaucrats (for the most part)= Socialist Democrats.

[jayef]

I pray every day that these people will finally understand the evils of the War on Drugs that they so fervently support. The War on Drugs is a war on people, and Noelle Bush is it's latest victim (well probably not).

[Rebelbase]

Re#9, I agree, unless there has been some info I have missed. This thing has smelled like a set up from day it happened, which just happened to be the day before the election.

[weikel]

Bush( not Jeb the President) could end it for the duration of his term with the stroke of a pen. Pardon all non violent drug offenders fire the entire DEA forbid any other Fed from enforcing a single drug employee. More likely to happen if he had relatives languishing in the Federal dungeons. If she gets a rich girl slap on the wrist like Betty Ford then there is no chance he'll act.

[Ann Archy]

I am NOT sticking up for the girl, but wh's to sa that the crack cocaine wasn't PLANTED??? They test her every week and she's been CLEAN, and then rock cocaie shows up in her shoe...color me a LITTLE suspicious.

[weikel]

Hmmm that does sound odd... it could be a plant.

[PhiKapMom]

Didn't take long for the anti-Jeb crowd to show up!

Still think Noelle was set up and then the press called in. If that is the case, it is beneath contempt but then Mcbride is being coached by McAulliffe =clintons and they have no integrity! Noelle has a very bad problem and for anyone to take advantage of that makes them scum in my book!

Anyone that trusts McBride better think again -- he says what the DNC wants him to say! If they say to make Noelle's drug use an issue, he will snap to and use it!

Seems some Freepers forget that she already served jail time and Jeb did nothing to get her out of that! She was treated like any other person caught with drugs.

Instead of hit pieces, maybe some prayers should go to the whole Bush Family. Noelle and her parents are going through a tough time without hit pieces. Huffington is one of my least favorite writers and if she said the sky was blue, I would go check. Never have liked her but she is getting more Dem by the day!

[Wolfie]

"If it were anyone else, they would have turned it over to the drug treatment community.''

Well, heck, that should solve California's medical marijuana problem. Just declare the whole state a drug treatment center, and the Feds will have to butt out. Or can drug rehab centers make their own law, but States cannot?