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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s campaign on Wednesday will begin airing a new television ad based on a personal story Bush told at a town hall meeting in Dover last week. It was the story of the problems faced by his daughter, Noelle, who has suffered from drug addiction. The 60-second ad, provided exclusively to WMUR.com, is part of a $4.6 million buy for the final weeks of the campaign, announced in September.

But bizarrely offers no proof or explanation On MSNBC today, Washington Post reporter Janell Ross hinted that Jeb Bush was covering up a major family scandal -- but she offered no proof or explanation for her comments. Even the MSNBC host made an effort to distance herself and her network from the Post reporter's comments. "I guess I was rather stunned, I guess, to hear that these things had been written in a book at a time when the governor probably had his own issues that he was struggling with in his personal life," Ross said. "It seems like a...

Gov. Bush's Daughter Completes Drug Rehab, Judge Drops Charges By Mike Schneider Associated Press Writer Published: Aug 8, 2003 Today's Mortgage Rates Online Mortgage Calculators Free Online Pre-approval Apply Online ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush's daughter completed a drug rehabilitation program Friday, and a judge dismissed drug charges against her and allowed her to go home with her parents. Noelle Bush hugged Circuit Judge Reginald Whitehead during a drug court hearing as the governor and his wife, Columba, smiled. The president's niece had been ordered into treatment after she was arrested in January 2002 for allegedly trying to...

An recording of an anonymous 9-11 caller who complained to police that first niece Noelle Bush had been caught with drugs earlier this month while being treated at a Florida rehab center is now being covered by the mainstream press, with the Miami Herald quoting extensively from the audiotape in its Monday editions. The decision to report on the tape stands in stark contrast to the discretion shown by mainstream news organizations in August 2001, when former first brother Roger Clinton entered an Arizona drug rehab center after admitting to doctors that he'd had a "frightening" cocaine habit for the...

Gov. Jeb Bush's daughter was found with cocaine at a rehabilitation center where she is undergoing drug treatment, police said Tuesday. Police were called to the Center for Drug Free Living in Orlando late Monday, where workers gave them a substance they said they found on Noelle Bush, 25, Police Sgt. Orlando Rolon said. The workers told police that the two grams of powder tested positive for cocaine, but police didn't immediately arrest her because they couldn't obtain a sworn statement that she was in possession of cocaine, Rolon said. The investigation will continue, said Rolon, who added that police...

<p>The Central Florida program that Noelle Bush sought for drug treatment is well-known to Gov. Jeb Bush and his family.</p> <p>Bush and his wife, Columba, began visiting the Center for Drug-Free Living in Orlando before he took office, according to counselors. They have had an ongoing interest in drug-prevention programs statewide.</p> <p>"They've worked very closely with us," center spokeswoman Joan Ballard said. "Columba has been a big advocate for prevention."</p> <p>Founded in 1971, the center has grown into a $30 million-a-year collection of residential- and outpatient-treatment facilities that treated 14,655 people last year in Orange, Osceola and Brevard counties.</p>

Gov. Bush's daughter released from Orlando jail Saturday, July 20, 2002 By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO — Noelle Bush, the daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, left jail and was allowed back into a drug rehabilitation program Friday, less than 48 hours after she was jailed for violating the terms of her treatment. Bush was ordered into the Orange County Jail on Wednesday for violating the terms of her drug treatment program. At a hearing Friday afternoon, Circuit Judge Reginald Whitehead decided it wasn't necessary to keep her locked up any longer and said she could return to The...