REMINDER: Jeb Bush Awarded Hillary Clinton the 'Liberty Medal' on the Anniversary of #Benghazi
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The Baxter Bean @TheBaxterBean 5h5 hours ago
REMINDER: Jeb Bush Awarded Hillary Clinton the 'Liberty Medal' on the Anniversary of #Benghazi http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/jeb-bush-hillary-clinton-award-96200.html …
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Jeb Bush to present award to Hillary Clinton
Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton are shown in this composite. | AP Photos
A conservative group is criticizing Bush for choosing Clinton to receive the award. | AP Photos
By JAMES ARKIN | 9/3/13 11:28 AM EDT
Possible 2016 Republican contender Jeb Bush is presenting Hillary Clinton, the presumptive front runner for the 2016 Democratic nomination, with an award Tuesday, Sept. 10 in Philadelphia — and it has one conservative group criticizing the ceremony.
Bush, the chairman of the National Constitution Center, is presenting Clinton with the organization’s 2013 Liberty Medal.
“Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” Bush said in a statement released earlier this summer. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Liberty Medal.”
The Independence Hall Tea Party Association sent out an email about the ceremony on Monday, calling it “extremely distressing.” A newly formed group, the Independence Hall Foundation, will hold a press conference on the day Clinton is receiving the medal denouncing her selection and offering an alternative award. Don Adams, an organizer of the Independence Hall Foundation, said in an email to POLITICO that the groups mission is to “seek to promote the ideals of the United States as embodied in its founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, the U. S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. We recognize and honor Independence Hall as the physical and symbolic foundation of the American nation.”.............
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