Jeb Bush called for debt restructuring relief for Puerto Rico yesterday, including the possibility of bankruptcy for the struggling commonwealth government if needed, the Orlando Sentinel reported today. Speaking to about 75 Christian religious leaders, many of them of Puerto Rican descent, on the east side of Orange County, Florida's former governor and a leading Republican candidate for president said the island's financial crisis must be addressed. "I think we ought to have structured recasting of their debt and structured recasting of their social obligations,” Bush said. And asked if that would include the prospect of bankruptcy, a legal option Puerto Rico does not currently have, Bush replied, "if it is a way to get out of the spiral they have, yeah, yeah, [I] would support that."
