Candidate Jeb Bush attends Wall Street Journal, Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox’s Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 1, 2014)
Team Bush Obfuscate Jeb’s Connections To Wall Street…. July 9, 2015
The Bush team is ultimately concerned that the electorate will connect the dots. The GOP establishment candidate is – The Chamber of Commerce candidate – is the Tom Donohue candidate – is the Wall Street Candidate. (And therein lies the heart of the Mexico affiliation between Jeb Bush and Billionaire Carlos Slim)….Bottom Line: Jeb is Wall Street, Trump is Main Street……….Jeb Bush apparently doesn’t want people to know that he worked at Lehman Brothers, the now-defunct investment bank whose collapse led to the broader financial meltdown in 2008…..
....For about seven years, Bush earned more than $14 million as an adviser to Lehman and, after its 2008 bankruptcy, Barclays, which took over Lehman. As such, he helped pitch business to clients or as he recently put it “I advised their clients on a wide range of global economic issues with a mind towards navigating government policies.”....
Bush’s piece of this firm-wide effort was termed “Project Verde” (Spanish for Green), and it involved convincing the world’s richest man, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, to make a potentially life-saving investment into Lehman...
~~ Anton Valukas, a Reagan appointed former U.S. Attorney, examiner for the Lehman bankruptcy ~~Jeb Bush: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Waterboy…. Michelle Malkin - December 17, 2014
Allow me to unite America's left, right and center in just three words: No, Jeb, No…......Jeb's indulgent (and ultimately doomed) enterprise has three privileged constituencies: Big Business, Big Government and Big Media…
….One thing Jeb's promoters won't be emphasizing: Over the course of his eight years in the Florida governor's mansion, government spending skyrocketed. The libertarian Cato Institute notes that Florida general fund spending "increased from $18.0 billion to $28.2 billion during those eight years, or 57 percent" and that "(t)otal state spending increased from $45.6 billion to $66.1 billion, or 45 percent." Like big-spending father, like big-spending big brother, like big-spending second son and lil' brother…..
....The chamber's business is the big business of the Beltway, not the business of mainstream America. And so is Jeb Bush's…..
….The Chamber supports mass amnesty for cheap, illegal alien workers. Jeb Bush supports mass legalization of cheap, illegal alien workers and accuses those of us who oppose it on constitutional, sovereignty, security and fairness grounds of lacking "compassion."…
…..The Chamber supports the top-down, privacy-undermining, local autonomy-sabotaging Common Core racket. Jeb Bush spearheaded and profited from Common Core -- and accuses those of us who oppose it of opposing academic excellence for our own children. …..
