Posted on 07/17/2015 6:11:21 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The Uber driver who picked up Jeb Bush Thursday on a San Francisco street corner doesn’t normally vote and didn’t recognize the Republican frontrunner. But the experience of driving a man who could be President, and talking about it with a reporter, may get him to the polls this year.
He said he will probably pull the lever for Hillary Clinton.
Bush is traveling around San Francisco Thursday using the ride-sharing app, the latest embrace by the Republican of the company, which has fought taxi regulations and has come under fire from some Democrats for the scant benefits it offers its network of independent drivers. The GOP has emerged as the company’s staunches defender, as the party tries to align itself with the hip, and liberal, Bay Area culture as they appeal for younger voters and top donors.
Munir Algazaly, 35, an immigrant from Yemen who has been driving Ubers for a year and a half, said “I had no idea,” that the 6’4″ passenger riding shotgun was the Republican presidential candidate.
Algazaly drove Bush to Thumbtack, a company that matches independent and small-business professionals with consumers—a startup founded by former aides to President George W. Bush that appeals to the GOP’s free-market sensibilities. Bush tweeted that he gave his driver a five-star rating, the highest possible, after the ride.
For nearly an hour before Bush arrived, every car that had the misfortune of slowing near the reporters in the rush-hour traffic was nearly surrounded by television cameras and reporters hoping to view him stepping out of the car. The false alarms continued, even after a campaign aide confirmed that Bush was arriving in a Toyota Camry, with the gaggle of cameras crowding around random vehicles, including this reporter’s taxi when he arrived late bearing a coffee.
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Quite an impression. The guy is apathetic and doesn’t vote, but this one interaction immediately led him to commit to the opposition.
So I’m guessing somebody told him Uber drivers were illegals - and he’s Oh-Kay! with that!
So this immigrant from Yemen says he’ll probably vote for Hillary.
Questions:
1)Is he even a US citizen?
2) does he know that Hillary is opposed to UBER?
So this immigrant from Yemen says he’ll probably vote for Hillary.
Questions:
1) Is he even a US citizen?
2) Does he know that Hillary is opposed to UBER?
Meanwhile, Heb Bush, like his brother, is frantically trying to get more Muslims into the country. Bushes are either incapable of learning, or have interests that don’t coincide with those of the conservative movement.
Hillary wants UBER to unionize and pay drivers more with more benefits. She is opposed to the ‘gig’ economy with its flexibility and underground tendencies.
“He said he will probably pull the lever for Hillary Clinton.”
He would pull the lever for Hitler if there was a “D” next to his name.
Such a man of the people.
First of all WTF is “Munir Algazaly, 35, an immigrant from Yemen” even doing here?
Time magazine isn’t doing ¡Jebito! any favors by putting out the visuals on this incident.
¡Jebito! looks like a fish out of water, out there in the real world.
I wonder what is Time’s motivation.
Being from Yemen and having that tat seem mutually exclusive...
A picture speaks 100000000000000 words
Mercy. He is just eaten up with folks who thumb their noses at our laws. We’ve already got one of those as President.
Everything about this Bush-UBER story speaks volumes as to why no one should vote for this guy. The driver is correct: Given a choice between Jeb Bush and Hillary one should go with the overt (instead of covert) Democrat.
“Munir Algazaly, 35, an immigrant from Yemen who has been driving Ubers for a year and a half...”
...and he says he will vote for Hitlery Clinton. Yes, nothing like importing votes for one of the most corrupt politicians in US history.
Hillary is for anything that stifles innovation and self reliance.
¡Yeb! is trying to appear to be an everyman.
Normal average citizen.
Except that he’s not.
Hillary is the lesser evil.
She would have a harder time getting the same things through Congress that they would roll or and give ¡Yeb!
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