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George P. Bush files to run for Texas office
Reuters ^ | 11/20/2013 | Jim Forsyth

Posted on 11/20/2013 6:05:30 PM PST by markomalley

George P. Bush, a son of a governor and a nephew and grandson to U.S. presidents, has filed to run statewide in Texas, the latest member of the powerful political family to seek elected office.

Bush, 37, the son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Mexican-born wife, Columba, is seen by some as a transformative figure - a Hispanic candidate for a Republican Party that wants to appeal to the growing and increasingly influential electorate of Latino voters.

Bush filed on Tuesday to run for Texas Land Commissioner, a position which, among other duties, manages the Alamo in San Antonio - a symbol of the often contentious relationship between Mexicans and Anglos in Texas. The current land commissioner is running for lieutenant governor.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: georgebush4president; georgep; georgepbush; texas; thoroughlybushed; tx2014
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Please, no more Bushes. Please.

1 posted on 11/20/2013 6:05:30 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

even Texans have had enough of that kind of bush.


2 posted on 11/20/2013 6:08:00 PM PST by hadaclueonce (This tag left blank on purpose)
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To: markomalley

Oh, he’s “transformative” all right: pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, the whole deal—but he speaks Spanish fluently, so he can be the voice of the GOP future.


3 posted on 11/20/2013 6:08:19 PM PST by madprof98
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To: markomalley
NO!
4 posted on 11/20/2013 6:08:24 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: markomalley

Reminds me of the movie “Moose Port”


5 posted on 11/20/2013 6:09:17 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: markomalley

Please, no more Bushes. Please.

**
Amen!

Stay outda Bushes!


6 posted on 11/20/2013 6:09:48 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: markomalley

I know what you are saying, but this Bush has not been tested on any positions. Best to give him a chance if he gets elected. Let us not forget that the Latino population will soon be a majority in the country.

We are still looking for the next Reagan. We know who does not fit the bill, we just do not know who does as of now.


7 posted on 11/20/2013 6:10:17 PM PST by kempster
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To: markomalley
a symbol of the often contentious relationship between Mexicans and Anglos in Texas

No. It's a symbol of American resolve to unwavering resistance towards Mexican aggression.

As such, it represents Freedom for the Americans, as they would not have to end up as subjects of the Mexican despots.

Like the despot in training, whose principal claim to fame is his family name....and his brown skin.

Allegedly America did away with hereditary monarchy.

8 posted on 11/20/2013 6:10:35 PM PST by Regulator
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To: markomalley

George P. Bush? Does the P stand for Paco?


9 posted on 11/20/2013 6:10:54 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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The GOP needs to get over its Hispanic Voter Myth nonsense...

If Illegal Alien Amnesty was going to get Hispanic votes...John McCain would have been elected President

And, isnt it odd that a half-Mexican Bush is considered Hispanic, but a half-Cuban Ted Cruz isn’t?


10 posted on 11/20/2013 6:11:40 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (2014: Real Conservatives Only, Please)
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To: kempster

I know what you are saying, but this Bush has not been tested on any positions. Best to give him a chance if he gets elected. Let us not forget that the Latino population will soon be a majority in the country.


Good gosh....Low Info Voter supporting the Hispanic Voter Myth...(facepalm)


11 posted on 11/20/2013 6:13:00 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (2014: Real Conservatives Only, Please)
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To: markomalley

George P. Bush/Chelsea Clinton 2020


12 posted on 11/20/2013 6:14:04 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: kempster
Let us not forget that the Latino population will soon be a majority in the country

Then it won't be the United States, we won't be free (how can you be "free" when a foreign populace simply invades and claims the right to rule you?), and the Americans should simply re-create a new government excluding the "Latinos" - who are simply citizens of Mexico in 95% of the cases.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact, and the 14th amendment did not legitimize invasion.

Your post is a farce.

13 posted on 11/20/2013 6:14:21 PM PST by Regulator
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That’s all the two crime families will continue to do - switch off forever in this non-benign monarchy. Other than the current illegal alien in office, there has been a Bush or Clinton in high office since 1980.


14 posted on 11/20/2013 6:17:10 PM PST by Borax Queen
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To: kempster

we are not going to elect’em to find out what’s in’em


15 posted on 11/20/2013 6:25:18 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: markomalley

I never realized that the office of the texas land commissioner was so formidable, emotional, and controversial.


16 posted on 11/20/2013 6:26:55 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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17 posted on 11/20/2013 6:32:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: markomalley
... seen by some as a transformative figure - a Hispanic candidate for a Republican Party...

Doesn't that describe Rubio a few years back already? Are the Yahoos really this obtuse to what is going on?

18 posted on 11/20/2013 6:35:05 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: SeminoleCounty

That’s because “Hispanic” for political purposes really means Mexican.
This is a euphemism.
Cubans are not Hispanic for political purposes. In California Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, etc aren’t Hispanic either.


19 posted on 11/20/2013 6:39:34 PM PST by buwaya
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To: markomalley

NO!!!

No Mo Bushes!!

Who are his opponents??

20 posted on 11/20/2013 6:43:10 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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