Jeb Bush Talks Immigration, Education, Releases Emails As He Eyes 2016 Bid

(Recasts; adds details, quotes on preparation policy)
By Bill Cotterell
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb 10 (Reuters) – In a revisit to Florida’s state collateral on Tuesday, Republican Jeb Bush focused on a politically bomb topics of immigration and preparation reform, while emails were expelled from his time as administrator there in an bid to refinement his certification as he eyes a 2016 presidential bid.
Bush told a accessible assembly of 300 longtime supporters during a $1,000-per-plate luncheon that his celebration should proceed immigration as an eventuality to coax mercantile growth, a perspective during contingency with hardliners in his party.
“People, a best and brightest around a world, wish to come here, so we should repair a immigration system,” he said, also stressing his support for securing U.S. borders.
“We have a possibility of carrying 600,000 first-round breeze picks each year,” he said.
The outing highlighted his strength in Florida – a largest U.S. pitch state – seen as essential to a Republican Party’s hopes of convalescent a White House in 2016.
It also showcased how Bush, distinct many Republicans during this early theatre of a assignment drive, is not using to a regressive right though instead presenting himself as a mainstream choice while seeking to enhance a range of a celebration and interest to eccentric voters.
Bush, a hermit of former President George W. Bush and son of former President George H.W. Bush, is deliberate a frontrunner in a already swarming margin of Republican presidential prospects.
He launched a “Right to Rise” domestic movement cabinet final month to lift income as he explores a campaign.

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On Tuesday, he expelled thousands of emails from his dual terms as Florida administrator from 1999 to 2007 along with a initial section of a campaign-style e-book to uncover he could bond with voters during a personal level.
Early in his tenure, Bush done open his email address, jeb@jeb.org, and speedy people to write to him. In a initial section of an e-book he is to release, he pronounced he spent 30 hours a week responding emails, earning a nickname “the eGovernor.”
“Everyone could email me,” he writes. “So they did.”
He and his advisers trust that by releasing vast chunks of his communications from his time as administrator it will uncover justification of a arch executive during palliate with joining daily with people who write to him and responding to their concerns.
Bush also discussed preparation process during a propagandize remodel discussion hosted by his Foundation for Florida’s Future.
“I’m for aloft standards,” Bush told reporters after a event.
As he travels a nation forward of a intensity White House run, he has faced doubt from a many regressive wing of his party, that is heedful of his support for a “Common Core” inhabitant educational standards.
Standardized contrast was executive to a preparation reforms he championed as administrator and Bush has suggested a center belligerent could be found.
“You can assuage people’s fears that you’re going to have some kind of control by a sovereign supervision of calm or curriculum or even standards,” he said. “I’m opposite all that.” (Additional stating by Steve Holland in Washington; modifying by Letitia Stein, Sandra Maler, James Dalgleish and G Crosse)

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