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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (41876)	6/26/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Moral conservatives? What a joke! How about HYPOCRITES?????? Bush: 'Difficult weekend at our house' TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 22 (UPI) - Gov. Jeb Bush says his wife Columba was worried about him seeing how much she had spent during a shopping spree in Paris when she attempted to clear U.S. Customs last week without declaring $19,000 worth of clothing and jewelry. The trip ended up costing Florida's first family $23,100 after Columba Bush wrote a $4,100 check to the government to cover a civil fine. The governor said, "I can assure you it was a difficult weekend at our house." U.S. Customs officials say the state's first lady acknowledged the purchases only after Customs officers found receipts in her passport totaling thousands of dollars more than the $500 in merchandise she had declared upon arrival at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport. In his first public remarks about the incident, Bush tried to guard his wife's privacy, and said how she spends her money is not the public's business. The governor said: "I love my wife more than life. She is my comfort and I am very proud of her. What she does with our money is our business - she can deal with that with me." He added: "My wife is a private person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her." Bush did not accompany his wife on her trip to Paris. The couple will leave this weekend for their summer vacation - a week-long stay at the Bush family's coastal retreat in Kennebunkport, Maine. unitedstates.com