Posted on 08/19/2015 12:46:56 PM PDT by jimbo123
Jeb Bush Leveraged Political Connections For Clients And Allies After Leaving Florida Governorship, Emails Show.
Four years out of office, Jeb Bush was acting as a paid consultant to a for-profit education company that makes its money helping universities offer online classes. Seeking to grow the business, the former Florida governor emailed an old associate who was now the president of Florida International University, a public university that was already paying Bush’s firm to operate its Internet-based MBA program.
The profitability of his firm’s arrangement with the taxpayer-funded school “warms my heart,” Bush wrote to FIU president Mark Rosenberg in 2011. “How can we expand the relationship to other degree programs?”
“Thanks, governor!” Rosenberg replied, saying the university was interested in giving more business to Bush’s firm, Academic Partnerships. After he and Bush traded more emails, FIU announced a deal to expand its agreement with the company. The relationship has been lucrative for Bush's firm: It has made almost $20 million from FIU, according to the school.
To listen to Bush’s speeches now is to hear a fervent enemy of lobbyists. As he pursues the Republican presidential nomination, he has repeatedly expressed disdain for people who worked inside government and then exploited those connections for their own material gain.
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But eight years’ worth of Bush’s emails with his former colleagues and employees in state government portray a former public official hard at work utilizing the relationships he had made in office. For the benefit of clients, friends and allies, he leveraged his political connections to shape outcomes on everything from online education to insurance regulation, from disaster management to a proposed bike trail near a golf course where Bush’s father and brother were members.
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Related:
Jeb Bush Got $1.3M Job At Lehman After Florida Shifted Pension Cash To Bank
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3326482/posts?page=27#27
That’s like saying water is wet.
Is there anyone anywhere in the world with any influence that doesn’t “leverage” it?
And I’m definitely not a Jeb Bush fan.
Bush did that?
Pssh. Lightweight.
Now, if he had donated half of his charitable donation to his OWN charity ala Clintons, then that would be something.
What else is an out of office politician equipped to do?
Wait till you see what Obama does...
1) collect a billion in POTUS pardon bribes
2) collect a billion for Baraq Obama Foundation as protection money for a future MooseChelle presidency
3) appear often on MSNBC
4) live as a potentate
I am not a Bush fan either. However this certainly is one lame article.
This article is pretty much that way. However, the article about Jebbie and Lehman Brothers raises some serious questions boyfriEnd’s abusing his fiduciary relationship with FL to benefit himself and LB to the great disadvantage of FL.
Why is this a surprise? It’s not like we didn’t already know the Bush family excels at nepotism!
True! My husband wanted another baby and I wanted a sewing machine...you should see my quilts these days!
Yup
Try this one:
Jeb Bush Got $1.3M Job At Lehman After Florida Shifted Pension Cash To Bank
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3326482/posts
Try this one:
Jeb Bush Got $1.3M Job At Lehman After Florida Shifted Pension Cash To Bank
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3326482/posts
That’s a bit more than leveraging influence - if that quid pro quo can be proven - more like bribery.
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