Jeb Bush is planning to release an e-book he has penned along with 250,000 emails from his years as governor of Florida early next year, perhaps the firmest indication that he is inching closer to a presidential run before a self-imposed deadline, The Washington Post reported.
The former Florida governor said he plans to "make up my mind in short order" about jumping into the 2016 race in an interview this weekend, which is scheduled to air Sunday on WPLG-TV's "This Week in South Florida with Michael Putney."
"One of the things I am going to do as I go through this process is release all of my e-mails and write an e-book, which has been kind of fun to go back and to think about this, and remind myself that if you run with big ideas and then you're true to those ideas, and get a chance to serve and implement them and do it with passion and conviction, you can move the needle," Bush, well-known to be a prolific e-mailer and an early adopter of technology, told WPLG's Glenna Milberg. "And that's what we need right now in America."
"I was digital before digital was cool, I guess," he said, referencing emails from 1999 through 2007, his two terms as governor. "I think part of serving or running, both of them, is transparency-to be totally transparent. So I'll let people make up their mind."
Offering a preview of what readers will find in the trove of e-mails, Bush said, "There are some funny ones, there's some sad ones, there's some serious ones."
On Monday, Bush is scheduled to give a commencement address at the University of South Carolina, which marks the Republican leader's second visit in three months to the state that will host the 2016 presidential primary season's first contest in the South, according to ABC News.
Last week, Bloomberg's Josh Green and Miles Weiss reported that Bush has been expanding his private equity business, a possible indication that he might pass on a 2016 contest.
Meanwhile, Bush has said he will be making a decision about his political future by the month's end.
