Former Gov. Jeb Bush and other Republican leaders are holding the first of a series of town hall meetings aimed at remaking the party's image.
BY BETH REINHARD
breinhard@MiamiHerald.com
... ''He's really the perfect person to do it because he governed successfully for eight years in a swing state, a purple state, as a conservative and left office very popular,'' said Justin Sayfie, a former Bush aide who last year started his own group called ``Rebuild the Party'' ...
''Jeb may be a better spokesman for the Republican Party than Rush Limbaugh, but that's a very low bar,'' quipped Democratic state Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach. ``He wears the right-wing badge very proudly, and as governor he didn't have any appetite for moving the party to the center.''
The new group also includes Republican presidential nominee John McCain, prompting the national Democratic Party to circulate a .. snarky observation that 'things are really humming along when your `rebranding' effort is led by your recently crushed presidential nominee and your discredited party leader's brother'' ...
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