Jeb Bush on Tuesday released a pile of e-mails from his time as Florida governor and an e-book that uses selected messages to narrate his first days in office. He says it’s in “the spirit of transparency.” The almost-certain 2016 presidential candidate uses the e-mails to try to paint a picture of an absorbed state chief executive who reads and answers missives from constituents. At the beginning of the e-book, Mr. Bush talks of himself as the “e-governor” and brags that he spent upwards of 30 hours a week answering e-mails from his laptop and BlackBerry.

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