Jeb Bush Reportedly Identified as Hispanic on Voting Form

The newspaper that Jeb Bush doesn’t read found a voting identification form Bush maybe should have read again. On a 2009 voting form from Miami-Dade the putative contender for the 2016 GOP nomination identified himself as “Hispanic”:

Bush has strong ties to the Hispanic community in Florida, and is married to a woman born in Mexico; however, he’s also from a WASPy political family from Connecticut. The New York Times said Bush’s team “could offer no explanation for the characterization.”

If you want to point out that this is just like what Elizabeth Warren did, the comments section is down yonder.

UPDATEROONY 11:11 a.m.: Bush and his son took the LOL approach on Twitter:

My mistake! Don’t think I’ve fooled anyone! RT @JebBushJr LOL – come on dad, think you checked the wrong box #HonoraryLatino

— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) April 6, 2015

UPDATE — 04/07/2015 3:15 p.m. ET: Bush addressed the controversy during a visit to Colorado on Tuesday. Watch below, via the Associated Press:

[Image via WAC of Philadelphia]

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