Jeb Bush: Report that his father will vote for Clinton was ‘inappropriate’
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is not happy about the reports that his father plans to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.Speaking to reporters Thursday at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Bush criticized Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest child of Robert F. Kennedy, for saying last week that the elder Bush would support Clinton on Election Day. “I thought it was a little inappropriate for a person to overhear a frail, 92-year-old man, in a private setting, at a reception for the Points of Light Foundation, which focuses on volunteerism, to hear this and then immediately go on Facebook and put it on there and then go on national television and then not even show up at the board meeting,” Bush said. “I thought that was inappropriate.”
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Jim McGrath, a spokesman for President George H.W. Bush, would not confirm Townsend’s story.
“The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that: a private vote cast in some 50 days,” McGrath told The New York Times. “He is not commenting on the presidential race in the interim.”
Jeb Bush is at Harvard this fall as a visiting fellow and guest lecturer. He was unsuccessful in seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
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