This sure reads like the other side of Jeb's influence pushing and peddling that NYT revealed a few months ago.
The shame is that given this, Neil and his S & L mess, I would be willing to bet that if only someone had ever looked at GW and GHW Bush and their papers, we would see the same kind of things...and, maybe, we would have been saved from this family...which just may be slimier than the Clintons.
The shame is that given this, Neil and his S & L mess, I would be willing to bet that if only someone had ever looked at GW and GHW Bush and their papers, we would see the same kind of things...and, maybe, we would have been saved from this family...which just may be slimier than the Clintons.
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"Ultimately, the state paid out $745,000... in grants awarded for the Campos project...
Is my reading and arithmetic of the following correct?
"His case was eventually resolved with a plea agreement in 2013. He was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $375,000 to the state. (So far, he has paid back $800, state records show.)"
Campos stole $745,000 from the state? Only had to pay back $375,000? So he made a $370,000 profit, and his only other "penalty" was probation? That's punishment for grand larceny? What a great temptation for someone to try to repeat the scam. I wish the story had also investigated the details of this most generosity in sentencing. Maybe Campos also told the judge that had Bush connections. Or maybe...?
Is my reading and arithmetic of the following correct?
"His case was eventually resolved with a plea agreement in 2013. He was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $375,000 to the state. (So far, he has paid back $800, state records show.)"
Campos stole $745,000 from the state? Only had to pay back $375,000? So he made a $370,000 profit, and his only other "penalty" was probation? That's punishment for grand larceny? What a great temptation for someone to try to repeat the scam. I wish the story had also investigated the details of this most generosity in sentencing. Maybe Campos also told the judge that had Bush connections. Or maybe...?
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Just so happy that Jeb! is languishing in the poll. Good riddance to all the Bushies.We had enough of them.
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Perhaps the author should write about the 10 years of I-95 closures and the "privatization" of the Florida Turnpike, another Bush enterprise.
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I'd like to know about this ....found from 1987, a vague memory
Days ago Miami Herald, Mary Ellen Klas, did a fine piece on Florida's redistricting — the scam like a wild horse and buggy ride
Way low ... awful. And now, here I am with my Pinecrest Floods http://pinecrestfloods.blogspot.com
Trying so hard to keep from flooding after inland sumpland was filled and elevated ... South Florida will be way low, lower than ever and then poof we'll be gone!
Days ago Miami Herald, Mary Ellen Klas, did a fine piece on Florida's redistricting — the scam like a wild horse and buggy ride
Way low ... awful. And now, here I am with my Pinecrest Floods http://pinecrestfloods.blogspot.com
Trying so hard to keep from flooding after inland sumpland was filled and elevated ... South Florida will be way low, lower than ever and then poof we'll be gone!
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It's not just voodoo economics with Jeb Bush.
Bush was a Principal of the neocon oganization Project for a New American Century (PNAC). PNAC/Bush lobbied the Clinton White House to invade Iraq in1998. Invasion of Iraq was a sure thing when brother was installed in the White House.
Jeb signed the PNAC Statement of Principles.
The PNAC manifesto “Rebuilding American Defenses” (December 2000) called for US launched wars in the Middle East, and stated that being such a radical change from conventional foreign policy, it would be a long time in the implementation, “absent some catastrophic and cataclysmic event – like a new Pearl Harbor” (Something like the attacks of 9/11/01, a pretext for war?)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century?wprov...
Bush was a Principal of the neocon oganization Project for a New American Century (PNAC). PNAC/Bush lobbied the Clinton White House to invade Iraq in1998. Invasion of Iraq was a sure thing when brother was installed in the White House.
Jeb signed the PNAC Statement of Principles.
The PNAC manifesto “Rebuilding American Defenses” (December 2000) called for US launched wars in the Middle East, and stated that being such a radical change from conventional foreign policy, it would be a long time in the implementation, “absent some catastrophic and cataclysmic event – like a new Pearl Harbor” (Something like the attacks of 9/11/01, a pretext for war?)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century?wprov...
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Randall, I happened upon that website (PNAC) years ago and was astounded to see all the names there who were currently heavily involved in promoting the Iraq invasion etc. I couldn't understand why there wasn't a general outcry! I'm a "nobody" and I too read it and was horrified!
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Thank you.
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Pat,
Let's attempt to get main stream media to take notice of this, report on this...
Let's attempt to get main stream media to take notice of this, report on this...
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JEB! gave us his brother as 43rd president by disenfranchising 93,000 legally registered African American Floridian voters when he had them purged off the voting lists.
Then he had Sec. of state Katherine Harris stop the recount to ensure his bro would get the votes. Add into the mix Sandra Dae Conner for her 5th supreme vote for W, which left us with a mix for world wide disaster that still has not ended even though his president has.
Then he had Sec. of state Katherine Harris stop the recount to ensure his bro would get the votes. Add into the mix Sandra Dae Conner for her 5th supreme vote for W, which left us with a mix for world wide disaster that still has not ended even though his president has.
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There is a limit to people's sense of entitlement who attain fame and fortune. A museum to Dorothy Walker Bush whose achievement was what? Unless of course her sole achievement was just being mother to Senior Bush. In that case, the mothers of celebrities, politicians, famous criminals should have museums with their busts in the lobby of the museum and rooms and rooms dedicated to the mundane and ordinary day-to-day activity. More fitting would be to dedicate museums to ordinary moms like me trying to balance child-rearing, juggling 2 or 3 different jobs, at the mercy of employers, baby-sitters, never-ending chores, stealing a few winks of sleep, constantly living in dread of being fired, barely making ends meet in a constant state of fear. I think these mothers are real heroines not some rich matriarch. And con-men like Campos certainly, know to push the right buttons of the entitled progeny to get them to do what he wants using their bully pulpit to fill his own coffers. It gets my goat that the progeny are trying to fulfill their homage with my tax money.
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You said it, Sistah!!!
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The element that stands out is not the petty corruption -- all too common -- but Jeb Bush's poor judgement about people. One of the most important characteristics for any President is his or her judgement about the people with whom he or she chooses to surround him or herself.
While I very much believe that, as Harry Truman said, the buck stops at the President's desk, the reality is that the President depends extensively on input from others. Few would argue that, if it weren't apparent before, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq made evident the need for a President to have the ability to discern and choose good advisers.
While I very much believe that, as Harry Truman said, the buck stops at the President's desk, the reality is that the President depends extensively on input from others. Few would argue that, if it weren't apparent before, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq made evident the need for a President to have the ability to discern and choose good advisers.
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I am sure that the late Mrs Bush was dearly loved by her children but why did they think she warranted having a rail museum built in her honor using public grant money? That world view says a lot.
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The famous Bush politesse and warmth is just a load of smarmy butt-licking to gain votes and much more importantly money. The Bush family relationship with Prince Bandar (aka "Bandar Bush") was exploited by Prince Bandar to further Saudi interests and to enable the Carlyle Group and the Bushes to grow ever-richer. They are a if-not-smiling-they're petulant group of frauds.
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There's a saying "Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are." It pretty much explains why the U.S. is so infatuated with dynasties. As this article (and some previous ones about Jeb!) shows, it has its dangers as well.
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The real political dynasty is the Bush one, and not the Clinton one since Hillary is a Rodham and the only one in that lineage to run for POTUS. This Tony Campos saga also seems a bit more entangled than than Hillary's e-mails.
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You would think Floridians would grow tired of being "Bushwhacked". I only hope the voters in 2016 aren't as stupid.
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Wow Republicans who steal public funds. Getting caught is the ONLY unusual part of this. I wonder how much food could be bought for poor needy kids with $750,000. Now I understand why they cut food stamps for needy families. They need that money for self-adulation projects like this one.
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Remember Richard Nixon's "Deep Throat" inside information discloser? We have another well-known American political leader who has misused his power. Jeb Bush did not have a substantial amount of personal wealth when he left office but look today at his net worth. He obviously had some corrupt insider deals while being governor but after he left office is when he made some real money. He had his friends create well-paying jobs, in the millions per year, just for him. Corruption abounds in the US political system today. Look at what these individuals had in net worth when they started in government. Compare it to their current net worth. The Founding Fathers never wanted the corruption of government that developed under aristocratic rule but they got it. Look at the amount of money being taken by those currently in office and even more so by those who have retired from government, like Jeb Bush, dwarfs the money taken by all of the aristocrats under the British monarchies. It seems impossible to get Congress or the White House to force basic changes to the tax codes where the wealthy pay at least the same percentage in taxes as those who bear the brunt of government spending today. Jeb Bush certainly does not want to offend his financial supporters and state that he, like his father, would raise taxes on the wealthy. George HW lost when he actually tried to be fair. His sons would never make that mistake again.
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Enough of the Bushes. No more Bushes in the WH.
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Or Clintons for that matter.
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I'd take a Rodham, though. We'll see about Chelsea (who IS a Clinton in 30 or so years.
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Gosh, it does seem that just as the 2004 Boston Red Sox HAD to go through beating the New York Yankees before moving on to finally win the World Series for the first time in 86 years--a Bush who seeks the GOP nomination for president MUST be defeated before that party can reform itself and move beyond the race-baiting and Southern Strategy garbage that the patrician New Englanders who are the Bushes adopted as a means for winning repeatedly and thus claiming the White House as theirs by birthright.
Despite the latest poll numbers, so many still seem fully confident that Jeb Bush is invincible and will win the GOP nomination. How utterly pathetic is it that such an ordinary and petulant man has such a stranglehold over GOP voters by virtue of his family name?
Despite the latest poll numbers, so many still seem fully confident that Jeb Bush is invincible and will win the GOP nomination. How utterly pathetic is it that such an ordinary and petulant man has such a stranglehold over GOP voters by virtue of his family name?
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They come by this "honestly" - as a result of being, you know, both legacy and Skull and Bones.
How someone who actually has to work for a living and worry about paying the ordinary expenses of staying alive and maintaining a family can be hoodwinked into supporting these dons is certainly a great subject for a dissertation. Unless you get bumped off while doing the research.
How someone who actually has to work for a living and worry about paying the ordinary expenses of staying alive and maintaining a family can be hoodwinked into supporting these dons is certainly a great subject for a dissertation. Unless you get bumped off while doing the research.
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The "Bush dynasty" is a cautionary tale about the hubris and arrogance of a family, and the devastating effect this can have on a country willing to believe the fairytale. Bush Sr. was a reasonably competent president, who, through his political connections, and only through his political connections, was able to amass a family fortune; not the least of these family connections was the completely corrupt Saudi royal family.
Like many families who aquire wealth - often through only marginal contribution of their own - come to beieve that they have special priviledges and special skills. In the Bush case, whatever qualifications Sr. may have had, it certainly did not get passed on to the next generation. The notion of family entitlement, enforced especially by matriarch Barbara, it seems, together with the family connections, gave us the dumbest, most desasterous president in my lifetime.
And now we have the brother, Jeb, who has been correctly described by Donald Trump and "low-energy" - that, in my view, is a very polite description.
On the Democratic side, the fact that Hillary is running, does not represent the same kind of "dynastic aspirations" as in the Bush case. She has proven to be qualified entirely on her own - although the e-mail issue leaves one wondering about her judgement. She was on the forefront of Universal Health Care, she was a successful Senator and Secretary of State.
Lesson: beware of mothers pushing their sons on the basis of their fathers history.
Like many families who aquire wealth - often through only marginal contribution of their own - come to beieve that they have special priviledges and special skills. In the Bush case, whatever qualifications Sr. may have had, it certainly did not get passed on to the next generation. The notion of family entitlement, enforced especially by matriarch Barbara, it seems, together with the family connections, gave us the dumbest, most desasterous president in my lifetime.
And now we have the brother, Jeb, who has been correctly described by Donald Trump and "low-energy" - that, in my view, is a very polite description.
On the Democratic side, the fact that Hillary is running, does not represent the same kind of "dynastic aspirations" as in the Bush case. She has proven to be qualified entirely on her own - although the e-mail issue leaves one wondering about her judgement. She was on the forefront of Universal Health Care, she was a successful Senator and Secretary of State.
Lesson: beware of mothers pushing their sons on the basis of their fathers history.
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Jeb is busy building a home on Walker Point in Kennebunkport, probably in hopes of having it as the summer White House. When he fails to get the nomination, or loses the election, he can move there and start over in a new state. Wonder how he would play in down East Maine.
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"Wonder how he would play in Downeast Maine?"
Not good, everyone thinks he's dumber than W!
Not good, everyone thinks he's dumber than W!
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Is that possible?
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This is just one more transgression--or, rather, one more field of transgressions for Jeb Bush--that needs to be examined more closely. As Jeb Bush's campaign chances rise from the low single digits to the upper single digits, we should rightfully expect a full airing of his disgraceful and, according to the Supreme Court, completely unconstitutional invasion of brain-dead Terri Schiavo's family. And we're also owed a reminder report on his shameless and utterly public voter rigging and interference with the 2000 election that installed his hapless brother into the White House.
But most of all, should Jeb Bush actually win the GOP nomination in 2016, he'll likely have to face and debate Hillary Clinton, an expert at opposition research, or Bernie Sanders, a straight talker who pounces on waffling, vagueness and dishonesty no matter who he's speaking with. I think Jeb Bush should be fully prepared to explain the cases of Katherine Harris, Terri Schiavo and Tony Campos, but in light of his failure to have an answer for a simple question about the Iraq War, I think he'll be blindsided when those three names inevitably come into play during the debate.
But most of all, should Jeb Bush actually win the GOP nomination in 2016, he'll likely have to face and debate Hillary Clinton, an expert at opposition research, or Bernie Sanders, a straight talker who pounces on waffling, vagueness and dishonesty no matter who he's speaking with. I think Jeb Bush should be fully prepared to explain the cases of Katherine Harris, Terri Schiavo and Tony Campos, but in light of his failure to have an answer for a simple question about the Iraq War, I think he'll be blindsided when those three names inevitably come into play during the debate.
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If you think the 3 stooges...er...3 Bushes are innocent do-gooders, think again. If they'll do it at home, they'll do it when they get out. What a sorry bunch.
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Looking at the photographs of rusting and gutted rail cars in Miami, it's clear to me that the Bushes have a perfectly good museum and monument of the their legacy to America. If they put a cordon around it and charge ten bucks a visit, the state and the feds might get some of their money back.
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Fine story by Steve Eder. It's both funny and sad. Sad, because a memorial to Dorothy Bush was so badly botched. Funny, because Republicans keep complaining about "crony capitalism", and this episode is certainly that.
It also implies that the vast network of Bush insiders, or near-insiders, can be problematical as well as a source of support. How can Jeb track their motivations? An ostensibly innocent idea turned into a corrupt funding pipeline. And, yes, it's a similar situation in Hillary Clinton's retinue.
Well, Jeb and Hillary will be the nominees in 2016, so we all might as well get used to these stories. Jeb has additional issues with his Chinese investments.
That sad part of this story could have turned into something socially redeeming had someone monitored Campos's activities. But it truly *is* crony capitalism as he threatened others with his so-called connections. Evidently Bush kept his hands off of this operation. He should have chosen a reliable person to oversee it. One who could keep Campos in his place, or simply replace him to get the job done.
And this episode could be an indicator of Jeb's performance in the White House. Like his brother W who let Cheney rampage around, or Katrina get the best of him, Jeb might tend to trust the wrong people. Hopefully we'll never get to know.
It also implies that the vast network of Bush insiders, or near-insiders, can be problematical as well as a source of support. How can Jeb track their motivations? An ostensibly innocent idea turned into a corrupt funding pipeline. And, yes, it's a similar situation in Hillary Clinton's retinue.
Well, Jeb and Hillary will be the nominees in 2016, so we all might as well get used to these stories. Jeb has additional issues with his Chinese investments.
That sad part of this story could have turned into something socially redeeming had someone monitored Campos's activities. But it truly *is* crony capitalism as he threatened others with his so-called connections. Evidently Bush kept his hands off of this operation. He should have chosen a reliable person to oversee it. One who could keep Campos in his place, or simply replace him to get the job done.
And this episode could be an indicator of Jeb's performance in the White House. Like his brother W who let Cheney rampage around, or Katrina get the best of him, Jeb might tend to trust the wrong people. Hopefully we'll never get to know.
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Don't count your nominees yet.
JEB! Has more skeletons than Hillary does, he can be mocked more easliy and he is also his own worst enemy.
His mother was right about one thing at least. Enough.
JEB! Has more skeletons than Hillary does, he can be mocked more easliy and he is also his own worst enemy.
His mother was right about one thing at least. Enough.
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Why not start your day with JEB...??
The criminal Bush family has more tentacles than the mafia. In fact it IS the mafia.
The criminal Bush family has more tentacles than the mafia. In fact it IS the mafia.
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Eh, this is Florida, often ranked among the most-corrupt states - even topping the list plenty of times. I'm more surprised when there *isn't* something dishonest, corrupt, pay-to-play, secretive, sneaky, nefarious, etc. going on.
Not that I enjoy my tax dollars going to the likes of Mr. Campos and his ilk -- it's just that I've grown wearily expectant when it comes to the politics of corruption in the Sunshine State.
Not that I enjoy my tax dollars going to the likes of Mr. Campos and his ilk -- it's just that I've grown wearily expectant when it comes to the politics of corruption in the Sunshine State.
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In addition to this fiasco, there are a few others worthy of note: wife Columba's effort to stealthily carry several thousands of dollars of goods purchased overseas through US Customs on her return to the U.S. without claiming them and paying the requisite duty; and son George who, as a teen, acting with reckless abandon in gouging vehicle tracks into the front lawn of the home of a girl who had spurned him. He was a bad Governor and he would be a VERY BAD President! If he can't set an appropriate example for his wife and kids, how can he do so for the Free World?
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Frauds occur every day, all over the world. The Times seems to have picked this one because it involved a museum honoring Jeb's then deceased grandmother and was perpetrated by a Bush loyalist, using that connection to solicit donors. Although no Bush was involved in, or even knew of, the fraud, other than expressing gratitude for the museum effort, it did have a connection to the Bush name and so that apparently makes it newsworthy, at least for the Times. What are we supposed to make of this story?
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The article speaks to the character and judgement of a US presidential candidate. This story highlights the cronyism and valuation of loyalty above all else that is emblematic of politicians named Bush. Even if these incidents on their own are not sufficient to dissuade anyone voting for Mr. Bush, which I would understand, they do reinforce a pattern of behavior that we've seen from this family for decades. I think it is an important job the Times is doing with this piece, to show that, like his father and brother, Jeb Bush also has on occasion awarded government contracts to the wrong people because of their loyalty to the Bush family. Again, it speaks to his character and judgement, qualities we should all be fully aware of when selecting our choice for president.
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If you actually need to told what to make of this story it would be useless to explain it. Everyone else gets it.
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Dorothy Walker Bush gets a museum because she went to Florida by train???? What am I missing here?
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Jeb Bush represents everything that's totally rotten in politics. From donors who become quasi friends and sycophants elbowing up to the names and connections of dynasty type families like the Bushes, it stands to reason that something corrupt will slip through the cracks.
I have not doubt that Bush means well and sees nothing wrong with mixing friendship and public funding. All that counts to the Bushes is that famous concept of loyalty. Political ties and family ties, when they mix that's when trouble starts. What purpose this museum had is nothing more than influence peddling by a crony using his friendship with a member of the Bush family to ingratiate himself into the local political scene.
Look, lots of politicians do this. Bush is by no means unique. But his singular lack of judgment not to investigate more carefully those trying to bet closer to centers of power is quite telling--and would not bode well for his presidency, following these examples of cronyism in state government.
These are the same people JEB! began shaking up to corner the donor market 6 months before he declared. At the time, I thought his moves were pretty galling. Too cute, too coy, too much the privileged scion cashing in chips won more by his Dad and his brother.
In the end, Trump is right about one thing: nobody gives anything without expecting something in return. In the case of Campos, JEB! got far more than he bargained for. Let's hope the American people don't do the same.
I have not doubt that Bush means well and sees nothing wrong with mixing friendship and public funding. All that counts to the Bushes is that famous concept of loyalty. Political ties and family ties, when they mix that's when trouble starts. What purpose this museum had is nothing more than influence peddling by a crony using his friendship with a member of the Bush family to ingratiate himself into the local political scene.
Look, lots of politicians do this. Bush is by no means unique. But his singular lack of judgment not to investigate more carefully those trying to bet closer to centers of power is quite telling--and would not bode well for his presidency, following these examples of cronyism in state government.
These are the same people JEB! began shaking up to corner the donor market 6 months before he declared. At the time, I thought his moves were pretty galling. Too cute, too coy, too much the privileged scion cashing in chips won more by his Dad and his brother.
In the end, Trump is right about one thing: nobody gives anything without expecting something in return. In the case of Campos, JEB! got far more than he bargained for. Let's hope the American people don't do the same.
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And we can all just imagine the screeching headlines if even one of Hillary Clinton's emails sounded even a tenth as corrupt. "though Jeb! was never accused of wrongdoing.." But thanks for reminding us about Jeb!'s secretary of state, Kathleen Harris. Now she has been very, very helpful to the Bushes, in fact she pretty much gave us Bush II. Never again.
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This is one of those cases of you are either stupid and inept for letting it happen or a crook. With the Bush family, you can add a bit of both in the mix.
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Excellent article on how the most corrupt use politics for personal gain. This is exactly why the Koch brothers are going to spend at least $900,000,000 - nearly $1 BILLIONS dollars - trying to buy OUR votes for their republican/libertarian/tea party and other corrupt candidates. Any American who is thinking of supporting another Bush for president - or any public office - had better do some background research. Their only purpose for holding public office is to further line the pockets of themselves and their wealthy buddies in the top 1% global financial elite at OUR expense. You can start by reading how Grandpa Bush helped Hitler during WWII, then look up the Savings and Loan "scandal" when George Bush, Sr. was Vice President, and his son, Niel, and the S&L he ran were up to their ears in it. We are witness to George Bush, Jr's giveaway to BIG banks when they tanked the global economy in 2005 and all the wealth flooded to the top 1% while average Americans lost half the value of their 401ks, their homes and many lost their jobs. Do not vote for another Bush.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Deregulation
http://www.econmatters.com/2014/12/russian-roulette-taxpayers-to-bail-ou...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Deregulation
http://www.econmatters.com/2014/12/russian-roulette-taxpayers-to-bail-ou...
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I will never, for the life of me, be able to understand how a family of mediocre, unimpressive, New England based WASPs like the Bushes managed to achieve so much success in politics. They are nasty people who play dirty, but that alone cannot mask how utterly pedestrian and uninspiring they are as a bunch.
There are actually people in America, at least 53 years of age now, who have cast ballots for a Bush family member no less than SIX times for president or vice-president dating back to 1980, and some of those people are gearing up for the chance to vote for a Bush family member a 7th time in a national election. What is the deal with such voters? I have never bought into any of the nonsense peddled by the Bushes nonstop over the decades.
There are actually people in America, at least 53 years of age now, who have cast ballots for a Bush family member no less than SIX times for president or vice-president dating back to 1980, and some of those people are gearing up for the chance to vote for a Bush family member a 7th time in a national election. What is the deal with such voters? I have never bought into any of the nonsense peddled by the Bushes nonstop over the decades.
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I remember back in '92 , CNN ran a piece on both George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. After watching the Bush one, all I came away thinking was how this family stood for nothing but winning, winning, winning, for the sake of winning.
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Hardly the worst scam in the history of state government dysfunction. Particularly for Florida. Seems to me that the state bureaucrats assumed Campos was a bigger deal than he was and Campos chiseled that crack. Gov. Bush's emails/comments to Campos used in this story do no reflect anything more than ordinary politeness.
Dreamer
When is the media going to remind us of JEB!s personal debacle of helping to disenfranchise at least 93,000 legally registered African American Floridian voters by purging their names and linking them to those of criminals so they would be purged.
All this because he knew Black voters were going to vote for Al Gore.
Thanks to Kathrine Harris who stopped the count so Dumbya would have the numbers needed to steal, I mean get the votes needed for Floridas much coveted electoral votes.
All this because he knew Black voters were going to vote for Al Gore.
Thanks to Kathrine Harris who stopped the count so Dumbya would have the numbers needed to steal, I mean get the votes needed for Floridas much coveted electoral votes.
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Waiting for NY Times story on the Clinton donors and wealth, etc etc. Lets go back to Hillary in the 90's. Ha Ha! This country would be better off if we never hear the names Clinton or Bush again.
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Dynastic political families are a bad idea anywhere. But doubly so in this country now that lobbyists and super PACs are essentially unregulated.
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The Clinton made their money. JeB Bush just eats caviar off his silver tray. Big difference.
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Stop linking Hillary Clinton to Jeb! She came from a middle-class background,was a star student at Wellesley and at Yale Law School in a era when women were a minority there. She was a student activist in college and did volunteer legal work in NewHaven on behalf of children.
Later, as First Lady of Arkansas and of the U.S., then as senator from NY and as Secretary of State she worked on behalf of average people. She has a rating of 90% from the ADA. Clinton is highly qualified to run this country on the domestic front and lead it internationally-- more so than any candidate running.
So what if she's related to s former president? So was Franklin Delano Roosevelt--and that turned out pretty well.
Later, as First Lady of Arkansas and of the U.S., then as senator from NY and as Secretary of State she worked on behalf of average people. She has a rating of 90% from the ADA. Clinton is highly qualified to run this country on the domestic front and lead it internationally-- more so than any candidate running.
So what if she's related to s former president? So was Franklin Delano Roosevelt--and that turned out pretty well.
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This is stuff right out of a Leonard Elmore novel.
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Or Carl Hiaasen .
This is small potatoes compared to Governor Scott Walker's $500+ million dollar Wisconsin Economic Development Fund that is little more than a giant slush fund with tens of millions flowing to friends and cronies without even as much as a submitted application in many cases.
Walker has insulated himself and the WEDC from probes and inquiries, successfully hiding his alleged criminal machinations behind a wall of government secrecy.
Maybe the Times would find enough smoke in the story to send some expert investigative reporters to find the fire?
Walker has insulated himself and the WEDC from probes and inquiries, successfully hiding his alleged criminal machinations behind a wall of government secrecy.
Maybe the Times would find enough smoke in the story to send some expert investigative reporters to find the fire?
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And don't forget Walker's approval of $250 million dollars to build an arena for the Milwaukee pro basketball team on the same day he slashed $250 million dollars allocated to the University o Wisconsin at Madison citing unavailable funds and belt tightening.
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The title, "When Crony Capitalism Goes Bad" would have been much more appropriate.
$1.2 million in grants for a museum dedicated to a politician's grandmother to be built by a family insider with no experience in that area. What could go wrong? All that's missing is a note from Jeb! in 2006 saying, "Tony, you're doing a heck of a job."
$1.2 million in grants for a museum dedicated to a politician's grandmother to be built by a family insider with no experience in that area. What could go wrong? All that's missing is a note from Jeb! in 2006 saying, "Tony, you're doing a heck of a job."
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"His case was eventually resolved with a plea agreement in 2013. He was sentenced to probation ... This year, Mr. Campos ... was arrested again on a parole violation ...."
It seems there's something missing from the story. How was Mr. Campos arrested for "parole violation," when he was sentenced to probation?
It seems there's something missing from the story. How was Mr. Campos arrested for "parole violation," when he was sentenced to probation?
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People are so sick of these Bushes that it's no wonder there's very little interest in completing this project.
I for one am in favor of removing the letter W from the alphabet.
I for one am in favor of removing the letter W from the alphabet.
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Let's show some balance NY Times. How about an article recapping all the corruption and/or smarminess surrounding the funding of the Clinton presidential library? That would make a nice "matching pair", don't you think?
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There's no " there" there, and everyone but Fox viewers know it.
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You do know that there actually is a Clinton Library, right?
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I guess you can link me to this scandal?
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Wel well, looks like JEB! May have himself several "47%" moments in his campaign.
If it's not carrying the baggage of his brothers heck-of-a-failed presidency, Iraq, Katrina, the recession of 2008, he is making comments about spending too much on women's health, and now more ways to take advantage of people at their own expense.
Bottom line: THE ONLY BUSH I TRUST IS MY OWN!!!!
If it's not carrying the baggage of his brothers heck-of-a-failed presidency, Iraq, Katrina, the recession of 2008, he is making comments about spending too much on women's health, and now more ways to take advantage of people at their own expense.
Bottom line: THE ONLY BUSH I TRUST IS MY OWN!!!!
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This sounds like Solyndra-lite. That one cost tax payers $535 million.
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In all seriousness, can someone please explain why Dorothy Walker Bush
warranted a museum? At taxpayer expense? This is ridiculous, vaguely
weird, and sort of in la la land.
warranted a museum? At taxpayer expense? This is ridiculous, vaguely
weird, and sort of in la la land.
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Why would the train station in Hollywood, Florida, be dedicated to Dorothy Bush? Dorothy’s home was in Jupiter Island north of Palm Beach. Prior to that, she and her husband stayed in Palm Beach. Not a backwater déclassé milk stop like Hollywood, Florida. As for the Orange Blossom Special, it might have been a top train prior to WW 2... but, after the war, it barely survived as an all-Pullman non-streamlined train. It died in 1951. It is not even listed in the 1952 Official Railway Guide. From what I can see of the train equipment, pictured in the article, it is certainly not from the Orange Blossom Special or any Pullman car or first-class sleeping car pool. "Potus 2" looks like a baggage car combination operated from Gallup, New Mexico, to Barstow, California on what is now the defunct Santa Fe RR. Obviously, Mr. Campos was a scam artist. What’s worse – is that Jeb Bush didn’t research this. Neither any train buffs nor historian. Makes me wonder how many Dorothy Bush type “Museums” have been fronts to swindle the public and taxpayer’s money. As an authority on cruises and trains, from this journalistic piece, its time the NY Times did some research and fact checking. www.cruisingthepast.com
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There is no logical reason for anyone, especially a dim bulb like Jeb!, to have a vast network of friends. A vast network of fellow travelling opportunists and potential co-conspirators in promising criminal enterprises on the other hand...
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Insecure and weak people of middling intellects, particularly when they are wealthy make excellent marks for con men. People who are astute and know how to critically evaluate situations are able to see the grifters coming from a mile away. We already have had one disastrous experience with an insecure and weak Bush boy, there is absolutely no reason to even consider replaying that scenario with another insecure and weak Bush boy.
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Wow. That's a lot of money.
I've no doubt this was a very nice lady but a museum? At taxpayer expense?
Seriously?
Meanwhile the GOP slashes and burns and attacks Social Security, Medicare and the very idea of affordable, universal health care sends them into cardiac arrest.
Good lord.
I've no doubt this was a very nice lady but a museum? At taxpayer expense?
Seriously?
Meanwhile the GOP slashes and burns and attacks Social Security, Medicare and the very idea of affordable, universal health care sends them into cardiac arrest.
Good lord.
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As a Florida taxpayer, I insist that the state confiscate Mr. Campos' G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls.
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Hear, hear! Now that would be an excellent use of our mutual tax dollars!
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Right. Thanks, NYTimes. We acknowledge your journalistic 'moment.' Now please get back to Benghazi.
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Yes, despite the eight investigations so far, we must continue to squander money on this. As they said on Alpha House, our grandchildren must be able to still dig into it.
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No one would go to it, even if they knew who she was, or why anyone thought she deserved a museum. I guess there is no greater pleasure than cheating a cheat!
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Just continuing on with the family traditions, hanging out with neocolonialist plantation owners, spooks and Wall Street mob creeps, names like Dresser, Draper, Farris, Walker, etc., usually all wrapped up in right-wing power fantasies. Jeb, tell us about Codina and Recarey, and the Cuban mafiosi, and the looting of the Broward Savings Bank, rather than your bogus claims about Florida's economy and vaunted education gains.
Tell us about disenfranchisement of black voter registration and balloting, about purging voter rolls of Democrats, about your Secretary of State Katherine Harris being W's state campaign chair and orchestrating the election heist, or at least protection of a very slim lead (not that the typically feckless D's didn't lose that election, what with Bill's zipper problems, Al's woodenness, Ralph's megalomania and the Palm Beach County Clerk's weird sense of geometry).
To avoid this, I have to vote for another Clinton?!! Yikes! Now I know why Bill is an honorary Bush - peas in a pod!
Tell us about disenfranchisement of black voter registration and balloting, about purging voter rolls of Democrats, about your Secretary of State Katherine Harris being W's state campaign chair and orchestrating the election heist, or at least protection of a very slim lead (not that the typically feckless D's didn't lose that election, what with Bill's zipper problems, Al's woodenness, Ralph's megalomania and the Palm Beach County Clerk's weird sense of geometry).
To avoid this, I have to vote for another Clinton?!! Yikes! Now I know why Bill is an honorary Bush - peas in a pod!
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The Bushes come from old money. The Clintons, until recent years, came from no money.
It is more difficult to trace the handprints on deeds, dirty and otherwise, of old money. They are more or less forgiven for the crimes of their progenitors. so long as granddaddy or great-granddaddy managed to escape jail time. Older riches are washed clean by generational laundry detergent. New money or no money? Suspect.
When Bill Clinton came to Washington, DC, the general reaction was: who are these people? Who are these hillbillies with Yale law degrees? He and she were easy targets, seen as strivers, not third or fourth generation wealth. One impetus for resentment: simple jealousy. How did this guy get to be president instead of...me?
From recent reporting, it seems that Jeb! Bush! had a lot of screw ups in Florida. A huge number of his business deals wound up in bankruptcy or with his partners being charged with crimes. One of the few things he did successfully was help his older brother take the presidency by the force of backdoor politics. (The greater shame is on our system as a whole that allowed a man, G.W. Bush, to take the White House while getting a minority of the votes of American citizens.)
The presidency itself is something of a sham, a front stage show distracting the media and the public from what is really happening behind the scenes, with and without a given president's knowledge. So, this Bush could play that role as the others have before him.
It is more difficult to trace the handprints on deeds, dirty and otherwise, of old money. They are more or less forgiven for the crimes of their progenitors. so long as granddaddy or great-granddaddy managed to escape jail time. Older riches are washed clean by generational laundry detergent. New money or no money? Suspect.
When Bill Clinton came to Washington, DC, the general reaction was: who are these people? Who are these hillbillies with Yale law degrees? He and she were easy targets, seen as strivers, not third or fourth generation wealth. One impetus for resentment: simple jealousy. How did this guy get to be president instead of...me?
From recent reporting, it seems that Jeb! Bush! had a lot of screw ups in Florida. A huge number of his business deals wound up in bankruptcy or with his partners being charged with crimes. One of the few things he did successfully was help his older brother take the presidency by the force of backdoor politics. (The greater shame is on our system as a whole that allowed a man, G.W. Bush, to take the White House while getting a minority of the votes of American citizens.)
The presidency itself is something of a sham, a front stage show distracting the media and the public from what is really happening behind the scenes, with and without a given president's knowledge. So, this Bush could play that role as the others have before him.
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What about me, ties of Jeb Bush are not interesting for me. Cause i know most of them, most of us are aware of the matter. We know that interests of Bushes clan is oil production, lobby in this sphere. Also Jeb has ties with Wall Street companies and financial corporations like J.P.Morgan & Chase, Goldman Sachs. They always sponsor election campaigns of Bushes. Jeb is investor of insurance company "Tenet Healthcare", it works with Obamacare. Even mother of Bush brothers said "We had enough of Bushes!"
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Mr. Bush, "earned a reputation as a fierce opponent of wasteful government spending..." Really? And yet as Florida Governor he got $1.2 million in appropriated Florida State tax dollars to build a museum to honor his grandmother? This is just another example of how the Bushes consider themselves entitled royalty. Reminds me of how Barbara Bush dismissed Al Franken on a plane in 2000, telling him, "I'm through with you!"
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Or the victims of Katrina, saying they were " better off" now because they were in Texas. Entitled, disgusting family. Oh, and lets not forget Neil and the whole savings and loan business we can thank pappy for.
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It must run in the family.
Brother W relied on the Bush name to take Texas taxpayers for a ride paying for the Texas Rangers stadium. As I recall, he and his fellow investors got the citizens of Arlington to vote a tax increase to pay for expropriating properties over about four times the area of the stadium site, the excess land being used to build commercial properties that netted the investors small fortune and helped W's political career on its way.
Brother W relied on the Bush name to take Texas taxpayers for a ride paying for the Texas Rangers stadium. As I recall, he and his fellow investors got the citizens of Arlington to vote a tax increase to pay for expropriating properties over about four times the area of the stadium site, the excess land being used to build commercial properties that netted the investors small fortune and helped W's political career on its way.
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Hilarious -- a classic chicken-comes-home-to-roost story. The Bushes, who are above all expert at utilizing public money for private gain, got snookered by a guy who was just trying to follow their example. But he isn't a Bush -- too bad for him.
Jeb!
Jeb!
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Florida politics are akin to Chicago politics in the 20th century. Chicago had the mob, the bootleggers Florida has a generation of Cuban opportunists and hit men to appease. The money and the payoffs and the turned heads go further back and are more complex than the rest of the nation seems to want to acknowledge.
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I would be happy to acknowledge them, but I know nothing about them. Do fill us in.
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Little Jeb just ain't got it to be POTUS. I watch the Republican debates just to watch Trump lambast little Jeb, who will not even use his last name in his campaign. The Bushes are learning what goes around, eventually comes around!
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For all their wealth and abhorrence of government waste you would think Bush Inc. would do the classy think and gift the funds back to the state of Florida.
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However they are not classy folks.....
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The Bush family is a true American dynasty. That said, Jeb Bush like his broyther Geroge W. marshaled all the family connections, favors from the past, contacts with very wealthy benefactors to accomplish their goals...political power and to enhance the family name.
Most would agree George W. was a dismal failure in the oil business, which by the way was bought by a Kuwaiti company that one year late took the company into bankruptcy..but, allowed George W. to make a few million which in turn was able to purchase a Texas baseball team. Most people, even the average "Joe" thinks George W. was a handle for Cheney...who really was the Commander in Chief.
And as for Jeb (who may recall was the governor of Florida during the hanging chads fiasco) is perhaps alittle more adapt, but still depended on his family name to enhance his position.
Now comes
Most would agree George W. was a dismal failure in the oil business, which by the way was bought by a Kuwaiti company that one year late took the company into bankruptcy..but, allowed George W. to make a few million which in turn was able to purchase a Texas baseball team. Most people, even the average "Joe" thinks George W. was a handle for Cheney...who really was the Commander in Chief.
And as for Jeb (who may recall was the governor of Florida during the hanging chads fiasco) is perhaps alittle more adapt, but still depended on his family name to enhance his position.
Now comes
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If this had been Hillary Clinton who did this instead of Jeb Bush, it would overtake the Benghazi and E-mail "scandals".
Being that it's Jeb, no one north of the Okefenokee swamp even heard about it, or cares about it, for that matter.
Being that it's Jeb, no one north of the Okefenokee swamp even heard about it, or cares about it, for that matter.
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Being a guy really helps. Being a Bush really helps. Being a Clinton is like a stone around Hillary's neck. She is treated as if she had something to do with Bill's shenanigans, yet that doesn't really jibe with her reaction to Monica Lewinsky.
But probably if she had divorced him she wouldn't have a chance now. Damned if you do and damned if you are the wife and not the son.
But probably if she had divorced him she wouldn't have a chance now. Damned if you do and damned if you are the wife and not the son.
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And - she's unfairly referred to as being part of a "dynasty."
That really drives me nuts. People equate the old, rich, powerful Bush family, which really is a dynasty, to a couple who worked hard and did well.
Is every wife now the member of a "dynasty?"
That really drives me nuts. People equate the old, rich, powerful Bush family, which really is a dynasty, to a couple who worked hard and did well.
Is every wife now the member of a "dynasty?"
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Sorry, Elephant Lover, but you got that wrong. Her standing by Bill had 2 obvious reasons: 1. Her immeasurable ambition to run for president, and 2. The recognition of her responsibility in Bill's contant obligation to go elsewhere for sexual satisfaction post the birth of their daughter. 1. is driven by advanced ego dementia. 2. is rather admirable.
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It would be interesting to hear what the commentariat would say if Mr. Campos were involved with the Secretary of State, or any other Democratic candidate. The "liberal media," a myth to begin with, is devouring any hope we might have to avoid another disastrous right wing idiot as president. Jeb will be forgiven his trust in this thief, and investigations into any progressive candidate will continue on Fox/GOP News. And the Times is not a liberal newspaper, but a corporate mouthpiece, always was though...
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“Thanks Tony for your friendship and continued interest in solid public policy” is of the same genre as "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job". Pity us the taxpayers.
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"Solid public policy" = cute train museum for the Governor's Grandma
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It's called "crony capitalism."
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He was a con man, and got Jeb Bush to let his guard down. This episode might expose Bush as a weak man - he simply should have said, "Thank you, but this isn't appropriate," - but not as a bad man.
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Jeb's other actions expose him as a bad man.
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another wealthy family on the public dole! at last, have you no shame? how many more reasons do you need to vote for senator bernard sanders. clinton and trump are just as corrupt as the bush league bushies
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Jebenezer victim of a hoax?
What unwanted memories it stokes,
Jebenezer was taken
Bona fides shaken,
One of those gullible blokes?
What unwanted memories it stokes,
Jebenezer was taken
Bona fides shaken,
One of those gullible blokes?
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Interesting insight into politics in Florida. There's something wrong with a system in which closeness to the Bush family buys you fearful obedience from state officials. This was a theme even in Dubya's administration. Favors were doled out to people in direct proportion to their loyalty to Bush royalty. The family breeds a culture of sycophancy.
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It is rather like "The Emperor's New Clothes" isn't it. The Emperors being the Bushes. One has to wonder what they do or did to instill such fear of telling what was really going on.
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When you are "entitled" like the Bush family members, you think even the most inconsequential members of your family deserve unearned honors paid for by the taxpayers. Precisely what did Mrs. Bush ever do that she would deserve a "museum" to honor her. NOTHING.
Typical of Bush -- his MO is to say that he is against "government waste" but when I lived in FL, the Palm Beach Post uncovered the fact that millions of taxpayer dollars had been doled out in "vouchers" for education but the state had NO RECORDS of who got the money and whether or not anyone had received any education as a result. None of that waste mattered to Bush, all he wanted was to choke the public school system and what better way to do it than throw away the tax dollars for education on vouchers, cyber schools, and charter schools run by half-educated people. I saw the charter in my town -- people with associate degrees "teaching" with no teacher certification or a real program like the ones that public school teachers must adhere to in their classrooms. Jeb has no problem wasting money that isn't his.
Typical of Bush -- his MO is to say that he is against "government waste" but when I lived in FL, the Palm Beach Post uncovered the fact that millions of taxpayer dollars had been doled out in "vouchers" for education but the state had NO RECORDS of who got the money and whether or not anyone had received any education as a result. None of that waste mattered to Bush, all he wanted was to choke the public school system and what better way to do it than throw away the tax dollars for education on vouchers, cyber schools, and charter schools run by half-educated people. I saw the charter in my town -- people with associate degrees "teaching" with no teacher certification or a real program like the ones that public school teachers must adhere to in their classrooms. Jeb has no problem wasting money that isn't his.
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Agreed. I would only add to these comments by asking when people will realize the defunding of public schools serves the same purpose--in the long term--as giving tax cuts to the wealthy, i.e., ensuring that middle- and lower-income families never get ahead, in this case by being unable to get a decent, affordable education. And as a bonus, the more the schools fail, the easier it is to say "keep cutting school budgets because the schools aren't working." But it's a self-fulfilling prophecy if you don't invest in it.
I have no doubt that Dorothy Walker Bush was a wonderful woman, well and deservedly loved by her family. But why would that suggest that the citizens of Florida would pay the bills to erect a museum in her honor? This makes no sense, except in the context of dynastic narcissism.
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And corrupt back-scratching.
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Well I haven't seen Kathleen Harris's name in print since the aftermath of the stolen 2000 presidential election.
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Tony Campos is a small time crook. He stole a few hundred thousand dollars. The real damage was done byJeb Bush and Katherine Harris tilting the 2000 presidential elections in favor of Jeb's brother.
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What a waste of taxpayer's hard working dollars.
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"Jeb Bush was impressed enough that he recommended Mr. Campos for a job in the new administration"?
"Impressed"?
Is that a new euphemism for old-style political payback of the most obvious and blatant kind? (Campos worked on Bush Sr's campaign and got rewarded...at TAXPAYERS' expense!)
"Impressed"?
Is that a new euphemism for old-style political payback of the most obvious and blatant kind? (Campos worked on Bush Sr's campaign and got rewarded...at TAXPAYERS' expense!)
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Just one more reason why we should be ignoring the clans of Bush and Clinton and find some new blood to run through the veins of our political bodies.
Sanders would be a good start.
Sanders would be a good start.
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Jumping to conclusions here. This story had noting to do with Clinton. Only Bushes.
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Thank you! rik's kind of faulty logic is too prevalent in the comments section. Trying to shoe horn in an opinion on something/someone that has absolutely nothing to do with the story.
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There is no Clinton clan.
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I find it fascinating that the family made their fortune off stocks in Nazi controlled Holland shipping before and during the war. The media says very little about this.
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In this country, money trumps ethics and justice. It's that simple. Religion is simply used by politicians as a pickpockets uses his/her accomplice--as diversion.
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And yet Hitler did not build a museum to his mother. Who do the Bushes think they are besides totally immodest?
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War profiteering is in their DNA.
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Whatever your politics, George Bush Senior seems to have demonstrated that he had some intelligence. His sons are another story. Junior allowed Cheney to run the Government, while he read My Pet Goat to school children and wore a flight suit to land on an aircraft carrier. Jeb -- who seems to have a better temperament than his brother -- doesn't appear to have much between his two ears: A sweet guy perhaps, but not Presidential material.
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Jeb, a sweet guy? He's pro-torture!
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George W had more intelligence than the only two peolpe he needed to be smarter than, Al Gore and John Kerry. Not only did he have a superior college record than both of them, he beat both of them in predidential elections. Enough of the intellectually lazy dismissive statements about the Bushes intelligence. If this is all you got then you got nothing!
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If only intelligence, what we all have between our ears, is what got people elected.
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Jeb neither you, nor your brother have any shame to show your face on media.
Like the gang of thrives, even the associates of your brother, like Cheney and Powell have no shame either. Why only this morning both of them were mouthing off of TV. They need to be handed over to the World Court in the Hague. Actually you Jeb, are breaking the US laws by sheltering, harboring and abetting known criminals. The Election Commission must disqualify you just for that reason, you hear?
Like the gang of thrives, even the associates of your brother, like Cheney and Powell have no shame either. Why only this morning both of them were mouthing off of TV. They need to be handed over to the World Court in the Hague. Actually you Jeb, are breaking the US laws by sheltering, harboring and abetting known criminals. The Election Commission must disqualify you just for that reason, you hear?
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Why did Florida contribute $750,000 for a museum honoring Jeb Bush's grandmother?
And why did the federal government chip in another $250,000?
Talk about waste, fraud, and mismanagement. Even if the proposal had been legitimate (and not a con artist's scam), there was no reason to spend so much government money to honor Dorothy Walker Bush. This story reeks of not just poor judgment by federal and Florida officials but contempt for the taxpayers.
And why did the federal government chip in another $250,000?
Talk about waste, fraud, and mismanagement. Even if the proposal had been legitimate (and not a con artist's scam), there was no reason to spend so much government money to honor Dorothy Walker Bush. This story reeks of not just poor judgment by federal and Florida officials but contempt for the taxpayers.
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Given the Silverado scam, the reading material scam, this scam, and the 2 unpaid for $4 trillion dollar wars, the real estate and stock fraud in Florida, what are the chances Jeb! Is connected to non-scams?
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What egos the wealthy have to think that public tax dollars should be spent to build museums for their relatives while millions go homeless. I don't believe this was on a budget and J E Bush didn't notice it.
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The Times should also look into Third Bush intervening with HHS Secretary Margaret heckler, while his daddy was Vice President. He took $75 fom Miguel Recarey of International Medical Center so his Medicare/Medicaid fraud upon the taxpayers could continue. To this day Miguel Recarey is a fugitive from justice living in Spain on his ill gotten gains.
Third Bush's administration also paid a man named George Keker $120,000. to testify that adoptions by gay couples were a threat to children's welfare. Keker spent part of his loot on the travel companionship, to Europe, of a young fellow he found, literally, on rentboy.com.
Third Bush's administration also paid a man named George Keker $120,000. to testify that adoptions by gay couples were a threat to children's welfare. Keker spent part of his loot on the travel companionship, to Europe, of a young fellow he found, literally, on rentboy.com.
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Oops.
He took $75,000 from Miguel Recarey.....
He took $75,000 from Miguel Recarey.....
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Who is Third Bush?
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Maybe it is better to have support of voters than the "vast Bush network."
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So, the question to ask Jeb! Is, knowing what he now does, would he have authorized Tony Campos' work?. Expect a new answer every day this week. By the time Republicans have their next date, he will try to pin the museum's failure on President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Sorry for the typo, I meant "debate," not "date."
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Can the Times top this story with one about Donald Trump who has a reputation of not paying anyone what they are owed?
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Oh, that the whole Bush clan should be thus - "abandoned in an industrial lot in Miami, covered in graffiti and rust."
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And the Cheney clan, too.
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That is too good for the Cheney Clan. I have something in mind involving tar and feathers and maybe a one way ticket to the World Court.
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Amen, Mr. Swamp! Make it so....
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Much ado about nothing. You would think he deleted subpoenaed e-mails and then scrubbed the servers clean or someting. Not as bad as the NYT pathetic hit piece on Rubio's "yacht" and finances, but still a story in search of a scandal.
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Hunh?...
This guy pays $800 and is scot free. In Furgeson, if you miss your court appointment for a traffic violation you get a warrant and possible arrest and incarceration.
Larry, you seem to not believe in accountability.
This guy pays $800 and is scot free. In Furgeson, if you miss your court appointment for a traffic violation you get a warrant and possible arrest and incarceration.
Larry, you seem to not believe in accountability.
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Only for Democrats, Ed, only for Democrats.
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As with the shamelessly partisan Rubio traffic violations investigation, the Times is again wasting its resources and risking its credibility on an article about a matter of no real importance or consequence.
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It's important that Florida and U.S. taxpayers were defrauded by a man who simply threw the Bush connection card wherever he went.
He lived off the Bushes but not on their dime: it was on your dime.
He lived off the Bushes but not on their dime: it was on your dime.
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The saddest part is that the bushes would think there was some groundswell and public need to honor their mother......and that the state should pay for it. Who do they think they are? What world are they living in?
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Wow, fraud and theft of over $1 million in taxpayer dollars are "a matter of no real importance or consequence?" Whose spinning moral compass would sanction that?
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See New Yorker article on what Jeb did to education while Gov. of FL, making FL the first state to agree to for-profit charter schools, which ended up enriching Jeb's "friends" and had from mixed to dubious results for the children of FL.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/testing-time
Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country's taxpayer dollars can do for you and your friends.