Just as Jeb Bush was leaving office, some of his biggest fans sought to leave behind a legacy: The Jeb Bush Mitigation Center for Excellence.
That was the title of a new state-created non-profit to be housed under the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, which wound up running Florida's $250 million home inspection and hardening grant program. Draft legislation was floated to Gov. Charlie Crist's offices early in his adminstration.
"It was a love note," said FLASH director Leslie Chapman-Henderson, who said she came up with the idea of naming the state's structure-strengthening efforts after the governor who gave the program its start.
Bush, who has gone on to rally conservatives and take on speaking engagements, doesn't have much to say about the attempted namesake.
"Don't know anything about it" he e-mailed in reply.