2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum23 Reasons Why Jeb Bush Should Think Twice About Running for President
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/23-reasons-why-jeb-bush-shouldnt-run-presidentThe international fugitive: In 1986, Miguel Recarey, who'd done 30 days in jail for income tax evasion in the 1970s, paid Bush $75,000 to help him find a new headquarters for his health care company. The company never moved, but while Bush's father was serving as vice president, Bush lobbied the US Department of Health and Human Services to help Recarey access millions in Medicare funds. Bush also helped arrange for Recarey's company to provide free medical care to the Nicaraguan contras. Recarey was later indicted for a massive Medicare fraud scheme but fled the country before trial. He is now an international fugitive.
The bribery case: In 1988, Bush formed a company with GOP donor David Eller to market water pumps manufactured by Moving Water Industries, another Eller business, to foreign countries. The company used Bush's White House ties to drum up business. In 1992, at the behest of MWI, the Export-Import Bank approved $74 million in US-backed loans to Nigeria to buy water pumps from Eller's company. The Justice Department later alleged in a 2002 civil suit that about $28 million of those loans were used to bribe a Nigerian official. Bush was not implicated, but in November 2013, a jury found MWI guilty of making 58 false claims to the Export-Import Bank on its applications for the Nigerian loans. A federal judge fined the company $580,000. Bush escaped testifying after the judge determined his testimony wouldn't be relevant to the central issue in the case. ...
The terrorist: In 1989, Bush successfully lobbied his father, who was then serving as president, for the release of Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch, who allegedly orchestrated the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people in 1976 and other terrorist attacks. Bosch, who was in a federal prison on an immigration violation and dubbed an "unrepentant terrorist" by then-Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, was a cause célèbre for Miami's influential Cuban populationa voting bloc that Jeb needed to launch his political career.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)He really does think the buisness of politics is about one guy running things and barking orderds, not people behind the scenes playing puppets. Do not be surprirse if he picks Liz Warren as his VP. If he does, he will leave the White House in a Box, thanks to a convenent "heart attack" that Lizzie's dad ordered.
We all know Dick wants his old office back.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Elizabeth Warren a) would never take such an offer, and b) does not go by Liz.
walkingman
(7,577 posts)that the last Bush did, I cannot fathom a reason to even take a chance on another Bush. Jeb's son, George P., is running and will probably win Land Commissioner in Texas. No one ever said that Texans were very smart.
FBaggins
(26,714 posts)For two reasons -
1 - There's little point in discussing the next presidential election when we're just days away from a critical mid-term election. Why distract from that now (likely the purpose of the original leak)
2 - Such reports might discourage him from running... and I think we would like for him to run.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I seriously doubt that Mom is intentionally trying to depress turnout.
FBaggins
(26,714 posts)MJ isn't in a position to know whether he's considering a run or not.
The question is who started the story and why do they want it in the news just before this election?
On edit - I didn't notice that this piece is from a month ago (prior to the most recent rumors).
tularetom
(23,664 posts)But you can depend on the wussy Democrats to give him a complete pass on all of it.
Wouldn't be sporting ya know.