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Documents Show The Expensive Tastes Of Jeb Bush’s Low-Key Wife [GOP-e?]
Washington Post ^ | February 22, 2015 | Karen Tumulty and Alice Crites

Posted on 02/22/2015 4:24:38 PM PST by Steelfish

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By Karen Tumulty and Alice Crites February 22 In 1999, Columba Bush, the famously private wife of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was detained and fined by federal customs officials for misrepresenting the amount of clothing and jewelry she had bought while on a solo five-day shopping spree in Paris.

The incident left the Florida first lady deeply mortified and her husband politically chagrined. Jeb Bush said the first lady had misled customs officials because she did not want him to know that she had spent about $19,000 on the trip.

“The embarrassment I felt made me ashamed to face my family and friends,” Columba Bush said in a July 1999 speech to the Central Florida Make-a-Wish Foundation, not long after the incident. “It was the worst feeling I’ve ever had in my life.”

The ordeal did not stop her from spending freely, however. Less than a year later, she took out a loan to buy $42,311.70 worth of jewelry on a single day, according to records filed with the state of Florida by Mayors Jewelers.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: florida; gope; jebbush
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Where is even a hint of terrorism in the conservative movement yet?


41 posted on 02/22/2015 4:53:47 PM PST by iowacornman
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To: Ann Archy
That is not what the article says. But I guess you handled her paperwork, so you know better?

Making "at least 5 such loans" does not sound like adding purchases to a charge account.


42 posted on 02/22/2015 4:54:29 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Mastador1

NO DAMNED AMNESTY— NONE!!


43 posted on 02/22/2015 4:54:37 PM PST by iowacornman
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To: windcliff
Good one.

or more generally, "Democrat policies"

44 posted on 02/22/2015 4:55:27 PM PST by Dagnabitt
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To: iowacornman

Preaching to the choir brother


45 posted on 02/22/2015 4:56:22 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Steelfish

Its their money, who cares? Why wont the Compost examine Michelle O?


46 posted on 02/22/2015 5:00:04 PM PST by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushes)
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To: Steelfish

Whatever.

Wealth envy?

Personally like her fake story of being embarrassed her husband would find out. LOL

Great story...


47 posted on 02/22/2015 5:01:43 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Perdogg

The MSM will be cheering proudly in 2017 as Baraq and MooseChelle collect a bil in POTUS pardon bribes for the Obama Foundation and live the next 40 yrs as potentates.


48 posted on 02/22/2015 5:03:30 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: 353FMG

Whatever.

NO MORE DYNASTIES!


49 posted on 02/22/2015 5:08:28 PM PST by miserare ("Reverence for life--life of all kinds--is the first principle of civilization." ~~Schweitzer)
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To: Steelfish

“Documents Show The Expensive Tastes Of Jeb Bush’s Low-Key Wife”

Latina version of Moochelle?


50 posted on 02/22/2015 5:08:28 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Mastador1

let us all sing.


51 posted on 02/22/2015 5:09:36 PM PST by iowacornman
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To: SharpRightTurn

HAHAHA! Latina Moochie.

Charo Bush!


52 posted on 02/22/2015 5:09:39 PM PST by miserare ("Reverence for life--life of all kinds--is the first principle of civilization." ~~Schweitzer)
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To: Steelfish

Go Post go!


53 posted on 02/22/2015 5:10:27 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: iowacornman

54 posted on 02/22/2015 5:10:49 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: TomGuy

Meanwhile Heinz has been spending far more than that for decades. Yet no one made a peep.


55 posted on 02/22/2015 5:11:39 PM PST by what's up
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To: Dagnabitt

Damnesty?


56 posted on 02/22/2015 5:12:56 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Steelfish

With all his other philosophical and ideological problems, he and she are crooks, too, no? As the Nominee he won’t have to throw the election. This and surely much more of his pecuniary mishaps will come blazingly to light during the campaign. I hope the Democrats get ahead of themselves and dump all the mud they have on GW’s head before the Super Tuesday primaries.


57 posted on 02/22/2015 5:12:57 PM PST by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: Steelfish

Disgusting and vulgar to spend that kind of money on anything but firearms and motorcycles.


58 posted on 02/22/2015 5:18:10 PM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: peyton randolph

There are Mexicans and there are women and there are Negroes and there are people of many other discrete Ethnic and whimsical groupings that are all distinct and there are Conservatives. Anyone who might be identified with other groups and is also a Conservative is excised from the other groups and mashed into the Conservative group which is anathematized. One cannot be a woman and a Conservative, or a Hispanic and a Conservative, etc. You are wholly one or wholly the other. Republican is also a term that is equated by the Masters of the Language with Conservative but we know differently.


59 posted on 02/22/2015 5:18:33 PM PST by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I find it interesting that everyone hates paying customs duties, but the politicians love to soak us with them. I didn’t know that was because they themselves evaded them. I’d like the tax return of every officeholder to be available online, so we peons can see how much they actually fork over (and maybe which loopholes they are using to limit their tax bills, loopholes that that rest of us aren’t always aware of, or loopholes that have been written especially for them).


60 posted on 02/22/2015 5:22:26 PM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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