Jeb Bush's son arrested for public intoxication, resisting arrest

[zimv20]

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John Ellis Bush, the youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, law enforcement officials in Texas said.

The 21-year-old nephew of President Bush was arrested by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission at 2:30 a.m. Friday on a corner of Austin's Sixth Street bar district, said spokesman Roger Wade.

John Ellis Bush was released on $2,500 bond for resisting arrest, and on a personal recognizance bond for the public intoxication charge, officials said.

Alia Faraj, the spokeswoman for Jeb Bush said the incident "is a personal family matter" which the governor and his wife "are dealing with privately."

It's not the first time Florida's first family has experienced legal problems with one of their children.

Noelle Bush, the governor's daughter, was arrested in January 2002 and was accused of trying to pass a fraudulent prescription at a Tallahassee pharmacy to obtain the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. She completed a drug rehabilitation program in August 2003 and a judge dismissed the drug charges against her.

Noelle Bush was sent to jail twice for violating rules during her rehab stint. She was jailed for three days in July 2002 after being caught with prescription pills and served 10 days a month later after being accused of having a small rock of crack cocaine in her shoe.

[pseudobrit]

And if I go out tonight and get a DUI, can I claim it's a personal matter and that I will deal with it privately?

[Sun Baked]

The Bush family still has a long way to go to catch up with a the drinking and drugs from that other political family. ;)

But I have faith that the Bush family can catch up in a decade or less. :D

[skunk]

The Bush family still has a long way to go to catch up with a the drinking and drugs from that other political family. ;)Would you be talking about that nice Mr Rasputin?

[IJ Reilly]

Sounds like another Bush presidency in the making.

[Blue Velvet]

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you...

All along, I thought it was only the criminal and poor underclass that takes drugs, gets drunk, resists arrest and defrauds others.

[pseudobrit]

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you...

All along, I thought it was only the criminal and poor underclass that takes drugs, gets drunk, resists arrest and defrauds others.

Ahem. In case you didn't get the memo, I'll reiterate:

This is a personal matter that will be dealt with privately.
Nothing to see here.

[3rdpath]

All along, I thought it was only the criminal and poor underclass that takes drugs, gets drunk, resists arrest and defrauds others.

no, they're just the only ones to serve time for it...

[Chip NoVaMac]

no, they're just the only ones to serve time for it...

Only becuase they don't have the money for the lawyers and the "spin".

[Deepdale]

Alia Faraj, the spokeswoman for Jeb Bush said the incident "is a personal family matter" which the governor and his wife "are dealing with privately."

Thankfully, the gene pool is still intact, but that means there won't be a soul-searching examination and public confessional on Oprah. It's no big deal ... the Big O's holiday givaway will soon be aired in about 2 months.

[Thomas Veil]

Some day, when John Ellis Bush runs for something, I'm sure his campaign manager will refer to this incident as further proof that he's just plain folks.

[mactastic]

Holy cow! Who ever heard of a 20-something being arrested for drunk and disorderly before? This must be news!

Now if he'd challenged his dad to fisticuffs....

[pseudobrit]

Holy cow! Who ever heard of a 20-something being arrested for drunk and disorderly before? This must be news!

Someone only doing 10 days for smoking rocks is newsworthy. We'll see if this nut that didn't fall far from the family tree gets the same treatment.

[IJ Reilly]

Some day, when John Ellis Bush runs for something, I'm sure his campaign manager will refer to this incident as further proof that he's just plain folks.

No, no! How could you have missed the political strategy for dealing with such things? He very publicly finds Jesus and then refuses to acknowledge his past.

[skunk]

It's all in the Book of Rove.

[mactastic]

Someone only doing 10 days for smoking rocks is newsworthy. We'll see if this nut that didn't fall far from the family tree gets the same treatment.
The child of a rich, famous, and/or connected kid getting a lighter sentence for just about anything isn't exactly news either. I mean, it should be but it's not.

Besides, what about the right to hire better representation than a regular person? Isn't that the capitalist ideal? The richest person deserves to be found less guilty through dint of their earning power. Or inheriting power.

I'm never really comfortable scoring political points over the family problems of opposing politicos. Unless their as scummy as Neil Bush. He's an exception to that rule. The pols themselves? No problem, they put themselves out there. If they're dirty I want to know. A pols immediate family? Well, that's a little greyer, particularly if the family member has put themselves out there politically in some capacity (i.e. Mary Cheney, the Kerry daughters). But unless it involves theft or fraud or something that affects the taxpayer dramatically, the extended family is generally off the hook with me.

[pseudobrit]

I think Rush Limbaugh opened the door to political children being fair game when he, on his TV show, called Chelsea Clinton "The White House dog".

[mactastic]

Yeah, but I'd rather see that door swung closed rather than wide open, you know?