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New State GOP Website Contains Few Mentions Of Bushes

Posted Jul 30, 2007 by William March

Updated Jul 30, 2007 at 04:41 PM

The newly revamped web site of the state Republican Party is an attractive, easily navigable site with lots of features—but one thing it appears to be short on is mentions of George Bush.

The site contains everything from a searchable list of county Republican Party officials to video and photo galleries of notable state Republicans. Most of the links bring up pages headed by photos of Republican officeholders.

But when the Tribune checked the many links on the page, we couldn’t find a single picture of the Republican president of the United States, George W. Bush. We found only three mentions of him. One was in a list of Republican elected officials; one in a press release issued last January by former party Chairman Carole Jean Jordan; and one was a transcript of a recent Bush speech, one of several speech transcripts on the page.

There are also few references to Jeb Bush and no photos we could find. He’s mentioned briefly, for example, in a history of the state party that notes his 1998 election as governor, and in a newspaper editorial the site links to.