The other smelly, slimy Bush: Jeb the filthy.
How many billions have the Bushes cost the taxpayers of the US of A in order to line their own pockets? Why do non-Bushes support this criminal family?
Geez, you guys have to get a clue.
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Editor's note: There is so much dirt on this guy that I didn't know where to begin or where to start. So I just threw a bunch of the main ones together.
JEB BUSH and a partner defaulted on a $4.5 million loan from a Florida S&L in 1988. The default helped trigger the S&L's collapse, which cost taxpayers $285 million. Bush and partner repaid only ten percent of the irregular loan and, incredibly, also got to keep the real estate that collateralized it.
In 1985, Jeb lobbied the federal government on behalf of Miami HMO owner Miguel Recarey to increase Recarey?s Medicare business ultimately to a total of $1 billion. The following year, Jeb received $75,000 from Recarey. Recarey, who had longstanding business ties to the late Florida Mafia boss Santos Trafficante, subsequently fled the U.S. under indictment, suspected of up to $100 million in Medicare fraud
One of Jeb Bush's crime family connections goes back to 1984 when Jeb Bush began a close association with Camilo Padreda, a former intelligence officer with the Batista dictatorship overthrown by Fidel Castro. Jeb Bush was then the chairman of the Dade county Republican party and Padreda its finance chairman. Padreda had earlier been indicted on a $500,000 (?320,000) embezzlement charge along with a fellow exile, Hernandez Cartaya, but the charges were dropped, reportedly after the CIA stated that Cartaya had worked for them.
Padreda later pleaded guilty to defrauding the housing and urban development department of millions of dollars during the 1980s. The president's younger brother was also on the payroll in the 80s of the prominent Cuban exile Miguel Recarey, who had earlier assisted the CIA in attempts to assassinate President Castro. Recarey, who ran International Medical Centers (IMC), employed Jeb Bush as a real estate consultant and paid him a $75,000 fee for finding the company a new location, although the move never took place, which raised questions at the time. Jeb Bush did, however, lobby the Reagan/Bush administration vigorously and successfully on behalf of Recarey and IMC.
In 1985, Jeb Bush acted as a conduit on behalf of supporters of the Nicaraguan contras with his father, then the vice-president, and helped arrange for IMC to provide free medical treatment for the contras. Recarey was later charged with massive medicare fraud but fled the US before his trial and is now a fugitive.
Jeb is a typical Bush:
Just as Ken Lay hid Enron's fiscal mismanagement from employees and investors, it seems our Jeb will go to any lengths to mislead Floridians about how the state's economy has gone from surpluses to deficits on his watch.
When Jeb Bush took the reigns of power nearly four years ago he spoke of lofty goals such as creating jobs, more efficient government and a world-class education system. Now, near the end of his term, we are back to deficit spending; Florida's school system is at the bottom of the national pile and government graft has become of the order of the day.
After promising the most ethical administration in history, Gov. Bush has overseen corruption and nepotism run amok in his administration. It is now estimated that nearly 40 percent of Florida's $48 billion dollar state budget gets kicked back in the form of contracts with private companies - many of which employ former Bush staffers.
The "accountability governor" has undercut the oversight and accountability measures in our state contracts and bidding process. He has even gone so far as to cut the funding for the state auditor general and the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability.
Gov. Bush is quick to pass the buck, claiming terrorists are to blame for our budget woes in spite of the fact that a revenue estimating conference demonstrated his tax cuts for Florida's wealthiest residents dug us into a $672 million hole well before 9/11.
Bush recently stuffed his "terrorism budget" with so many turkeys that even the Republican chair of the Senate Public Security Committee said people would "laugh in our faces" if we had approved some of the governor's requests - such as a quarter of a million dollars for a satellite tracking system for cows and a half a million dollar kickback to a special interest group to print pamphlets on family preparedness.
The Chair of the Southeast Florida Security Task Force probably would have found these requests less than amusing. He has had to reassign patrols at Florida ports because Gov. Bush also cut National Guard funding in spite of Florida remaining under a heightened "state of alert."
I suppose it's somehow fitting that while Florida's retirement system lost more than any other state in the Enron debacle, Jeb personally benefited from his Enron stock. In the end, Jeb Bush has used Florida to turn a profit for his friends at the expense of the states future, just as Ken Lay used the employees and investors at Enron. In four short years, Florida has become the Enron of state governments and Jeb Bush is their very own Ken Lay.
Jeb Bush was in the perfect position to ensure the rise to prominence of his fellow imperialists.
2000 election: Entire swaths of the scrub lists were either simple cases of mistaken identity, not felons, or had their voting rights restored one of several ways. The list included people whose felonies were committed in 2007. People who had committed misdemeanors. People who were unfortunate enough to have the same first four letters of both first and last name and birthdate as a felon. Florida paid $4M for this list, and instructed DBT to make the felon matching so fuzzy, casting such a wide net - the results had almost no statistical value whatsoever.
Coincidentally, many FL counties made no effort whatsoever to contact the purged voters, who subsequently had no knowledge to contest it until election day, by then too late. Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State Katherine Harris, created a phony list of convicted felons--57,700 to be exact--to "scrub" thousands of innocent people from the state's voter rolls. Of the thousands who ultimately lost their vote through this scrub of voters, 80% were African-American, mostly Democratic Party voters. Had they voted, the course of history would have changed. Instead, however, Harris declared Bush the victor by only 537 votes.
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