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The black sheep brother: Volumes have been written about Jeb's siblings, especially former president George W. Bush. But his brother Neil, who helped bankrupt a savings and loan and once toured Asia with the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon while he was promoting the development of a 51-mile underwater highway between Russia and Alaska, will give reporters plenty to chew on.
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The black vote: During his first failed campaign for governor in 1994, Bush was asked in a debate what he would do to help African Americans. "Probably nothing," he replied. In 2000, his administration purged 12,000 eligible voters from the rolls because they were incorrectly identified as convicted felons. More than 40 percent of them were African Americans.
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The failed charter school: After wining just 4 percent of the black vote in his first failed run for governor, Bush teamed up with the Greater Miami Urban League to start Florida's first charter school. In 1999, the state implemented a school grading system at Bush's insistence. His own charter school received a D. By 2008, the school had earned a C- and was $1 million in debt; the state shut it down that year
Many many more...keep this list in mind.
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PM Martin
(2,660 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)and the rumor that he and George were possibly involved in the drug smuggling.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I can see the attraction to being involved with bad guys.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)What are the others.
malaise
(267,455 posts)Who needs another Bush
logosoco
(3,208 posts)Looking at this in list format, it is every more disgusting to think of all the crap the bush family has done.
There are so many good folks in this country, why do people even support scum like this at all? I wouldn't want money or prestige if it came at this cost.
lastlib
(22,895 posts)We cannot let that basturd anywhere near the levers of power again, and ditto any other member of the BFEE.
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)with a fair election system, what are the odds that a man could be elected president and then his unremarkable son gets elected president, and then another son is considered a prime candidate for president?
Volaris
(10,251 posts)I've said this before and I still believe it..
I could find a thousand people more qualified to run the Federal Government on Match.com
than the loons who keep managing to get themselves on the ballot (or appointed to cabinet and agency head positions by those who do).
Mister Nightowl
(396 posts)Dubya was incapable of thinking once, for Pete's sake!