Posted on 04/29/2015 10:08:37 AM PDT by jimbo123
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 Ive 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.
That purchase was part of a pattern by Columba Bush of borrowing to buy tens of thousands of dollars of jewelry at a time from the South Florida store over a 14-year period. Documentation available online, which does not include the details of two transactions made less than six weeks apart in 1995, shows that she spent a total of more than $90,000 at the store.
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“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.”
Damn, if I knew that being governor of Florida paid that much, I would have moved there and ran for the office.
I like “nillenials” better.
It's the Mexican way. People go in to gobermint there to make big money extorting the gusanos.
Jeb learned that there! He's completely assimilated.
She's been his teacher....and the Clinton crime family agrees: the Little People pay. We collect.
After the Clintons, Bushes & Obamas there is no good reason to respect the office anymore.
Let me help:
No more Bushes.
No more Bushes.
No more Bushes.
No more Bushes
No more Bushes ever again!!!
“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.”
Categorical facts are non-partisan. (Although the MSM does seem to spend a lot more time on SOME facts.)
This is just one more reason for me to not want these people, El Jefe ‘George III’ and Senora Bush, as the Obamas’ follow-up act.
Cruz or lose.
Oh for Pete’s sake. It’s Jeb’s money she’s spending, and they can work it out between them. She has also spent a fortune on purchasing art, most of which she has given to the State of Florida for various museums.
Now Moochelle, who spends a fortune of OUR money on her jaunts and doesn’t even give us anything in return...that’s a different matter.
Is that Peter Brady? lol
The Bushes are wealthy people. I don’t care about legal purchases. I think a lot of people would be revolted by this, but what do I care? Not you of course, but the people most likely to snag on this are the same folks who voted for Obama.
If it were reported that Michelle purchased the same jewelery, do you think the Left would ding her and Barack for it?
I state here and now, no Conservative (or even Republican) should ever vote for Jeb Bush.
He is a liberal Republican who doesn’t have clue one about what direction this nation should head in. As for reversing what the Left has been doing, he’d be just as effective as his brother, NOT AT ALL.
tastes of Jeb Bushs low-key wife, DoughtyOne wrote:
Folks, Im not fan of the Bushes, but this article and one other are absolutely despicable. If the WP had vetted Obama, I would accept this on the Bushes. It didnt.
So here we have some information that folks should know about, (no we don’t, what she does with Jeb’s money is his business) but the WP is the last entity in the U. S. that should be telling us.
Where is the vetting of Barack Obama? The Post has been completely silent on his background, treachery, and acts of treason.
Wapoo, NYT, or any of the alphabet media could start by looking into if Obama’s been rewarding campaign contributers with some of these at tax payer expence” state visits” ? Like his 1st one to England when he brought along 5000 “guests”. I believe that’s an impeachable offense.
You are right. I have said the same thing in the past that she will be a big negative if Jeb runs.
I agree with your comments here. As for as the jewelery goes, you’re spot on and I addressed that in another post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3284442/posts?page=30#30
My first bone of contention with Obama is this. Where did he get the money to attend the universities he attended?
My take on him, is that like Clinton, he was groomed from a young age to become president.
Clinton also attended schools that his family couldn’t have put him into.
“Once this all gets out, she will prove to be a serious drag on Jeb.....” Their kids unsavory dramas will be all regurgitated, too. They should just slink off into retirement. Signing of on Terry Shiavo’s death was the absolute worst thing he did after indicating he would not do so that I know about...she was totally helpless and her parents were denied the right to care for her when her husband (then long living with another woman and sharing children) and Bush pulled the plug.
Maybe Jeb wants the Presidency so he can give his wife the United States...
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