Something's breaking about Bush's "lost year" community service...

[Rose Siding]

Bush has said he worked helping to "run" the place at White's invitation...

Former workers dispute Bush's pull in Project P.U.L.L

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But White's administrative assistant and others associated with P.U.L.L., speaking on the record for the first time, say Bush was not helping to run the program and White had not asked Bush to come aboard. Instead, the associates said, White told them he agreed to take Bush on as a favor to Bush's father, who was honorary co-chairman of the program at the time, and Bush was unpaid. They say White told them Bush had gotten into some kind of trouble but White never gave them specifics.

"We didn't know what kind of trouble he'd been in, only that he'd done something that required him to put in the time," said Althia Turner, White's administrative assistant.

"John said he was doing a favor for George's father because an arrangement had to be made for the son to be there," said Willie Frazier, also a former player for the Houston Oilers and a P.U.L.L. summer volunteer in 1973.

Fred Maura, a close friend of White, refers to Bush as "43," for 43rd president, and his father as "41," for the 41st president.

"John didn't say what kind of trouble 43 was in - just that he had done something and he (John) made a deal to take him in as a favor to 41 to get some funding," Maura said.

"He didn't help run the program. I was in charge of him and I wouldn't say I helped run the program, either," said David Anderson, a recreational director at P.U.L.L.

A White House spokesman, told about the interviews, denied Bush had been in any trouble or Bush's father, who was ambassador to the United Nations at the time, had arranged the job at P.U.L.L. He acknowledged, however, Bush was not paid for his work there. Bush's father declined a request for an interview.

"It was incorrect to say he was working there," spokesman Trent Duffy said. "He was doing volunteer service and getting paid by the Guard."

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9990590.htm

[NMDemDist2]

1. is the major media gonna pick it up? I'm sending it to Olberman

and Tweety

[Rose Siding]

3. Knight Ridder Newspapers is major media

TV could still avoid it though

[lilymidnite]

2. Picture on link of * -- is it recent? He looks TERRIBLE

<snork>

[WI_DEM]

4. another incident of Poppy pulling strings for Jr.

Just like the guard.

[ClintonTyree]

5. Please, please, PLEASE...........

GET LEGS! RUN LITTLE STORY, RUN!

We want to know what the moronic cokehead did to merit community service. It's SOOOOOO beneath a Bush, you know? Community Service is so..........beneath him!

[Rose Siding]

6. One woman checked with her pastor before talking

She told of enforced "sign ins" that only Bush had to do. Hmmmm....

There's more than one new attributed source for this tale.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. Bush obviously isn't proud of this example of community service

If he were and if he had nothing to hide, he would have photos and an ad about him performing charitable work in the ghetto, pandering for more votes in the African-American community that the Republican Party so desires. Bush would be milking this for all he could if he wasn't afraid of shining some light on this period in his life.

[senseandsensibility]

14. Excellent point.

Very perceptive. I agree that * absolutely would be pushing this if he thought he could get away with it. I remember when I first heard about this volunteer work that he did, something smelled. He is so obviously the type who would never do something like that. Remember how he slammed poor people to his college professor, and told everyone that the poor deserved to be poor? God, he's selfish AND stupid.

[Starlight]

19. Where did I hear this? Kitty Kelly's book?

I thought Daddy Bush made an agreement with the judge to let little Georgie do some community service work & drug treatment rather than go to jail for cocaine possession & DUI. :beer: If he completed it successfully he was supposed to have the record of his arrest(s) erased. Anyone else familiar with this story?

[phirili]

8. The present mess that * has us in is enough to bury him. Let's stay

on message.

[Rose Siding]

11. The message today seems to be about wolves

I welcome this distraction.

[dogtag]

9. Maybe now they'll ask why he has a new drivers license

with a brand new NUMBER. No record can be checked for DUIs.

[Malva Zebrina]

10. Yup he needed to change his life and he continued on with that life

until almost the age of forty--if anyone is to believe that biography and I don't. He continues to be the spoiled little brat frat who thinks no one can question him and who thinks he can lie out of his ass ad infinitum, and that will be accepted by all those Christians, who say he was 'born again" so it all is past history. Meanwhile, those lies have been the cause of thousands of deaths in Iraq. He is indeed born again--into a life of sadism, criminality and deceit.

I don't think this will get much play to tell the truth. He has survived all of his despicable lies for four years, thanks to the media we have in this country. No one will have the guts to bring out his spoiled little, pathetic life and his lies re the same.

[Jim__]

12. If this story breaks now - Kerry wins !!! - n/t

[demgrrrll]

13. Doesn't this confirm Hatfield's story that Bush was ordered by a Texas

Judge to perform community service in exchange for expunging his cocaine arrest record? Wish we could find the name of the judge.

[frylock]

15. fred maura: the guy knew he needed to change his life, and he did.

yeah, Fred.. 14 years later. What a maroon. :eyes:

[Rose Siding]

16. kick

[Gloria]

17. kick

eom

[deadparrot]

18. If that's true, why didn't he mention it from the beginning?

[Rose Siding]

22. He did...

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HOUSTON - President Bush often has cited his work in 1973 with a now-defunct inner-city program for troubled teens as the source for his belief in "compassionate conservatism."
............

The news is that it wasn't because White called and asked him to help "run" it, as he's said. Now new sources are saying it was as a favor to his dad because Bush was in trouble- he had to sign in to prove his time. So what was the "trouble"? And why did he lie about the circumstances surrounding his presence?

And NOW, the WH says that it was volunteer and that the Guard was paying him at the times. WTF? What about the missing pay stubs?

See? This brings new credibility questions- cracks in a resume crafted of whole cloth.

[steve2470]

20. now the nyt knows

[kskiska]

21. Kitty Kelley pretty much said this

That * was placed there by his daddy, and brother Marvin joined him after getting expelled (but covered up) from Andover. They were the only white guys in the place.

[DeepModem Mom]

23. kick

[Eye and Monkey]

24. "The guy knew he needed to change his life, and he did."

Tail-end of the article - possible pre-text for "once was lost, but now is found, was blind, but now, he sees".

Rovian pre-emption?

[Rose Siding]

25. Maybe but this is way too early for that.

About 10 years too early?

[Merlin]

26. The crucial evidence: Bush had to sign in and out every day

"My pastor says if you found me, I should tell the truth."


"...Even then, Turner was hesitant. About 15 minutes into the interview, she asked if the reporter would accompany her to her pastor's home because she needed her support. Once there, she talked in detail for the first time while her pastor, Theresa Times, of Bless One Ministries, and five people who had been attending a prayer meeting listened.

"George had to sign in and out - I remember his signature was a hurried cursive - but he wasn't an employee. He was not a volunteer either," she said. "John said he had to keep track of George's hours because George had to put in a lot of hours because he was in trouble."

The organization, which brought in children from Houston's poverty-stricken Third Ward community for sports, table games, tutoring and counseling, was a favorite charity for many Houstonians, including professional football players, who were frequent volunteers.

[txindy]

27. Kick!!

:kick: