Posted on 12/11/2015 5:37:34 PM PST by jimbo123
The Texas state director of Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush's young donor program has quit and is planning to join the campaign of Democrat Martin O'Malley.
Shooter Russell, a University of Texas sophomore who since June had held the formal role with Bush's "Mission: NEXT program," told the Houston Chronicle he made the switch because of the GOP's opposition to people fleeing war-torn Syria.
"The final nail in the coffin were Trump's comments on Muslims, the inaction by the party, and our very own state's actions on blocking Syrian refugees," said Russell, who added that he has cousins who do mission work in the Middle East.
As state director, Russell said he oversaw about 80 volunteers at 15 chapters across the state, set up phone-banking plans and helped organize an event featuring Bush's son, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush. Now, he said, he is planning to travel to Iowa to campaign for O'Malley, a former governor of Maryland who is far behind in the polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Bush supporters more comfortable in Democrat Party.
News at 11.
A Jeb mole inside the Clinton campaign.
Martin O’Malley. Bahaahahahaa, that man is even lower in the polls then Jeb Bush.
Democrats in R jerseys
Yeb! is one, too. He just has a long family history of R jersey wearers to uphold.
That’s not a defection, it’s just a re-alignment.
Lemme guess...he announced a the same time that in future he’s to be addressed as “Krystal”.
I don't buy that. I'm supporting Cruz and I'll stump for Trump if he gest the nomination, but I think the guy who left Jeb Bush to work for O’Malley is a quisling.
Poor Jebbie.
He just cannot seem to get a break....even when he stands on his tippy toes.
Well, I suppose it is relaxing to come out of the closet.
A JEB supporter defects to O’Mally...I knew JEB was a Dem...
In before Claude Raines.
You can defend Yeb! all you want, but the rest of us think Yeb! himself is a quisling.
Ergo his staffer leaving to serve a different liberal is expected.
He’s mad at Trump, so he bails on ... Yeb? No entiendo.
This is that stuff I scrape off my shoe with a stick/
What I meant was Jeb is essentially a Dem in an R shirt. It was meant to be facetious.
yeah, but, don't take it out on Jeb! He's not one of them.
Like St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, Trump is driving the RINOs out of the GOP.
Martin O’Malley, supporter of the radical islamist leader of Turkey, Erdogan and Erdogan’s Turkish government-funded mosque in Maryland.
So much for the liberal love for “separation of church and state”... they’re either all for a union of mosque and state.
I’m having a little difficulty following his line of logic. Perhaps if I were a liberal it would make sense.
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