Posted on 07/20/2015 10:39:52 AM PDT by jimbo123
Jeb Bush on Monday returned to the Florida capital to deliver a speech slamming lobbyists as a corrosive influence on public policy, and railing on the practice of public officials becoming professional influence peddlers. The jeremiad may have come as a shock to Tallahassee's government officials-turned-lobbyists whom Bush enlisted to help him sculpt his gubernatorial agenda, and who are now helping bankroll his Republican presidential campaign.
In his speech, the former Florida governor said that as president he will push to ban lawmakers from becoming lobbyists for six years after they leave government. He decried the fact that before he was governor, Tallahassee "lobbyists and legislators grew a little too comfortable in each other's company." He portrayed himself as an opponent of such a “culture,” asserting: "Even before I took office, I signaled a new way of doing business by forbidding lobbying by any member of my transition team."
But a previous International Business Times review of Bush's emails and Florida lobbying records shows that Bush regularly sought public policy counsel from the Southern Strategy Group. That lobbying firm -- which has employed former Florida officials and is among the top donors to Bush's presidential campaign -- was created by Paul Bradshaw, a former government official. Bradshaw's wife, Sally, led Bush’s transition team before becoming his first chief of staff in 1999. (She is now a senior adviser to his presidential campaign.) Another member of Bush's transition team, David Rancourt, served as Bush’s deputy chief of staff for less than a year before joining Southern Strategy Group. The firm would also hire former Florida House Speaker John Thrasher, a close Bush ally. Thrasher is now the president of Florida State University, where Bush delivered his anti-lobbyist speech.
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Please
And his administration will be the most transparent. I am just waiting for him to say that next
Jeb Lobbyist good, everyone else Lobbyist, they be bad.
Maybe Ma Richards was right about a silver spoon.
Not to worry. He's already told them it's just for show.
“Ima hafta call you biches Ho’s but don’t beleeb dat. Shore, you Ho’s are my bottom biches!”
“Hillary Clinton denounces wealthy hedge fund traders, despite collecting hundreds of millions from them.”
It doesn’t really matter, he isn’t going to be elected to anything.
¡Yeb! is the Designated Loser.
Lol!!!
Sit down, Jebbie. We’re over you.
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