Jeb sniggers while Florida burns

The governor of the state of Florida is briefing a set of GOP lawmakers, candidates, and aides about various things, including the tragic case of Rilya Wilson, the five (now six, if she’s still alive) year old who went missing under the blind noses (so to speak) of the governor’s own Dept. of Children & Families. It’s one of the most prominient cases of DCF bungling (which bungling he swore would be a key goal of his governorship when he was running for office), but not the only one.

So what’s the highlight of Jeb-buddy’s briefing? A breakthrough in the case? Concrete plans about how DCF will be reformed, or explanations why he hasn’t yet done so?

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a delegation of lawmakers that he had “some juicy details” about the sexual orientation of a missing Miami girl’s caretakers.
During a meeting Wednesday, Bush implied that the two women, who had just been charged with fraud stemming from the investigation into Rilya Wilson’s disappearance, were lesbians.
“As (Pamela Graham) was being arrested, she told her co-workers, ‘Tell my wife I’ve been arrested.’ The wife is the grandmother, and the aunt is the husband,” Bush explained, using his fingers to indicate quotation marks to emphasize the word “grandmother.”
“Bet you don’t get that in Pensacola,” Bush told his guests, a group of lawmakers from Florida’s Panhandle.

Well, give him some credit — he thought it was a closed briefing, not realizing there was a reporter in the room. After all, saying something like that in public would have been … well, rude, right?

(via JillMatrix)