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Jeb Bush, who promised to run for president by showing voters his heart, is making an especially personal appeal in New Hampshire on Tuesday, where he plans to discuss his daughter's struggles with addiction. Speaking at a forum on addiction and the heroin epidemic at Southern New Hampshire University in the afternoon, Mr. Bush will not only unveil his drug control strategy but also talk about how his family has intimately experienced the ravages of addiction.

When we remind people that elections have consequences, we’re usually talking about the outrage that comes from appointments to the executive and judicial branches. They have other consequences on policy and legislative priorities, as John McCain “forcefully” reminded Hispanic immigration activists at a meeting last month. National Journal reports on the fallout today.

They challenged the closing of a Nevada mountain road by foresters trying to protect wildlife and fought the diversion of irrigation water from Oregon farms to help endangered salmon and suckerfish. Now, western advocates of property rights are taking on the Everglades restoration and promising to bring convoys of cars on a multi-state trek to South Florida for a "Sawgrass Rebellion."