Reply #75: This one's not passing smell test - kid's dad is * Pioneer [View All]

[RamboLiberal]

From article.

"I think whatever problems the Bushes might have had with the son they got over with pretty quick as soon as Dad reached 'Pioneer status,' " Maxwell says. That's the hokey title given to anyone who raises more than $100,000 for the president's reelection effort.

"Crotty goes way back with the Bushes; he worked on the dad's campaign in the '80s," Maxwell says. And according to the Orange County government Web site, Richard Crotty was appointed county chairman by Gov. Jeb Bush in 2001.

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Crotty says he and Tyler were seated a dozen or so seats from the podium. But when event organizers discovered two no-shows in the row right behind Bush, the local party chairman took Tyler and they sat in the empty seats, Crotty said.

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Turns out that Tyler has a history of upstaging speakers.

Two years ago, he introduced his dad before his annual state-of-the-county speech. Tyler ended by jamming his fist up into the air, which earned him a standing ovation.

"Tyler's peppy introduction earned louder applause than most of what his father said," recalls Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell, who blew the lid off this week's story of the video kid's identity.