PITTSBURGH - Florida Governor Jeb Bush is still holed up in a closet of the Wood Street T-Station downtown, where he's been since October 6. Bush was in town that night to attend a Duquesne Club fund-raiser for Sen. Rick Santorum when he was pursued by a large mob of angry anti-Republican protesters on Sixth Avenue. The Governor retreated to the subway station where Port Authority police ushered him into a supply closet for his safety.Since then, Bush has refused to come out for fear that the rabid liberal mob will do him harm. Food is delivered to him by the Republican State Committee three times a day, and his sole recreation is to listen to a radio.
Yesterday, Bush granted his first interview through the door of the closet since he went into hiding, and he used the occasion to complain about Pittburgh food. "It stinks," said the Governor in a surly tone. "They gave me this weird sandwich from some place called Primanti's, and I had to quit eating it because it was such a mess," the Governor said. "There's not enough napkins in the world to clean up after that mess."
Bush said that Pittsburgh radio is "terrible," aside from WDVE's Morning Show, especially Fridays when The Carbolic Smoke Ball's Weekly Round-Up is aired. "Those Carbolic guys are truly geniuses," the Governor said. "It's worth being imprisoned in Pittsburgh just to hear them."
