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Gov. Jeb Bush joked during a Florida Cabinet meeting Wednesday that the people of San Francisco may be endangered and, "That's probably good news for the country."
The subject was environmental land and Bush was looking at a map of showing locations with a lot of different wildlife at the time.
"It looks like the people of San Francisco are an endangered species, which may not be a bad thing. That's probably good news for the country."
People in the room broke into laughter.
Can't wait 'till I can bring out my vast arsenal of witty "ha ha look at the dead hurricane victims" jokes.
...Wait, maybe Jeb ain't so bad after all. Here's his spokesman:
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Bush spokesman Jacob DiPietre later explained the governor's thinking: "The Cabinet was talking about endangered species and everyone knows that Republicans are an endangered species in California."
So, it's a good thing for the country that Republicans are an endangered species in California? Sounds about right to me. Preach on, Brother Jeb!