- Florida Governor Failed to Produce Records Under Florida's
"Sunshine Law"
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- Judicial Watch Seeks Public Records Concerning Policies
and Decisions Regarding Cuba
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- (WASHINGTON, DC) -- Judicial Watch, the
public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption
and abuse, said today that it had filed a lawsuit under the provision's
of Florida's "Sunshine Laws" naming, among others, Governor Jeb
Bush as a defendant, for failing to produce documents relating to Fidel
Castro's communist Cuba. Judicial Watch is also seeking communications
between Governor Jeb Bush and The White House on all matters relating to
Cuba.
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- The Public Records Act request was filed in an effort
to explain the bizarre and hypocritical U.S. policy toward Cuba, a country
that has long appeared on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist nations.
The Bush Brothers have long talked about strengthening restrictions on
Cuba, yet both have looked the other way as U.S. agribusiness corporations,
many of them big campaign contributors, sell millions of dollars worth
of food to Communist Dictator and terrorist Fidel Castro. This includes
an unprecedented food exhibition in late September, 2002 - with nearly
300 American companies participating - in Havana. Nor have they done anything
to hold Fidel Castro accountable for his murder of four Brothers to the
Rescue aviators who were shot down over international waters by Castro's
MiGs. Castro has taken credit for the shootdown.
- Judicial Watch is not surprised by the "stonewall"
response of Governor Jeb Bush. There is likely a great reluctance on the
part of his administration to document their routine dealings and political
sponsorship of commercial and other activities with a nation designated
as a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. State Department.
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- "Jeb Bush and his brother, President George W. Bush,
are going to have to explain their incomprehensibly contradictory policies
when it comes to Cuba. We think the American public will be able to draw
their own conclusions once the facts come out concerning agribusiness campaign
contributions to these politicians," stated Judicial Watch Chairman
and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
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