Timeline - Part 3

February - April 2015 

  • Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s moves toward a 2016 run for president rekindle interest in his handling of the Schiavo case.
  • South Florida political analyst Michael Putney’s Miami Herald Op-Ed article, February 3
  • Michael Schiavo’s letter to the editor in response to Putney’s article,  February 9
  • Wall Street Journal article, February 18  
  • Bloomberg Politics article, March 6
  • Wall Street Journal article, March 29  

June 2015 

  • Now an official presidential candidate, “Jeb Bush Reminds Conservatives That He ‘Stood’ With Terri Schiavo”
    • NBC News report article, June 19

January 2016 

  • In a Bush campaign advertisement, a narrator says, “He’s a man of deep faith who fought time and again for the right to life.” The ad includes a photo of Ms Schiavo, prompting Ms. Schiavo’s widower to criticize Bush and his super-PAC for using “my wife’s tragedy for his crude political gain.”
    • MSNBC report, January 26
    • Miami Herald’s Fred Grimm column, January 27 

November 2017

  • George Felos, one of Michael Schiavo's attorneys, in a letter to The Florida Bar News extolling mindfulness for lawyers, writes, "As the lead attorney in the Terri Schiavo case, I experienced years of bone-crushing stress and can attest to the benefits of meditation practice in dealing with that stress."

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