JEB! Bush’s ‘gay friend’ in email memoir 'Reply All' won’t vote for him

(New York Daily News) - He garnered a mention in Jeb Bush's upcoming memoir as the GOP presidential hopeful's "gay friend,' but Xavier Cortada says he has no plans to support his pal's 2016 bid for the White House. Cortada, 50, has known Bush for more than 20 years, but their differences of opinion about marriage equality played out in a series of emails in 2004. Bush discussed the exchange in his e-book "Reply All," in a chapter that was  published this week on his campaign website. The entire e-book will be published in the fall. “I like him, I respect him, but I disagree with him. I don’t wish to see him at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,” Cortada told the Daily News.

In the memoir, Bush introduces the Miami artist as a gay friend. Cortada qualified the characterization.  “I do consider Jeb Bush a friend in that way. In the way you’d be a friend to a politician,” Cortada said. “It’s a different kind of friendship.”

Neither the book’s mention, nor their history together, will factor into Cortada's decision at the polls next year.

Bush is simply too conservative, Cortada said. Read more.