Posted on 04/07/2015 5:05:45 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
With the news breaking that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called himself “Hispanic” on his 2009 voter registration form—and that in 2012 he called himself Florida’s first-ever Latino governor—it’s worth revisiting a 2013 profile of him in the Washington Post that found friends of his referring to him as having “gone native” as a Hispanic.
Bush is a “gringo aplatanado,” said Jorge Arrizurieta—a Miami businessman who worked with Bush’s gubernatorial administration on various trade issues in Latin America. A phrase the Post’s Manuel Roig-Franzia and Peter Wallsten wrote translates roughly to mean “he’s gone native.”
The Post writers said Jeb Bush is an “honorary Hispanic,” something that dates back to the 1970s when he met his wife Columba—a Mexican citizen.
“The unlikely evolution of John Ellis “Jeb” Bush into a sort of honorary Hispanic loops back to 1970 and a tree-lined square in Leon, a colonial-era city in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato,” they wrote. “Bush, then a teenager and student at the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., was in Mexico for a three-month exchange program. One Sunday, he spotted a girl in the back of a car promenading around the square. She struck him as ‘beautiful,’ and so did her name: Columba Garnica de Gallo...
Culturally, Jeb is even more Hispanic than many in the young generation of Hispanics in America today,” former American Conservative Union (ACU) chairman Al Cardenas told the Washington Post for that 2013 profile. Cardenas is a close friend of Bush’s who was pushed out of his ACU leadership role after failures the past couple years. “Not only is his cultural affinity seamless with us, but he speaks the language, something that probably 50 percent of the younger generation do not. He’s totally bilingual and bicultural in every sense.”
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I didn’t like him before and this only strengthens the dislike factor.
Well, technically my cultural inclination is a cross between redneck and South American. Southern and really, really Southern...
Millions will never yield to the establishment again.
I’m ready to vote Jeb for president...of Mexico
Still despise him, but he’s more hispanic than Fauxcahontis is injun.
JB is an amnesty loving POC and will soon meet the Right Wing of this country. We must stop “WINNER TAKE ALL” primaries COLD!!
Falsification of identity on government records is illegal.
There are plenty of rednecks in places other than the south....
Jebster should take his wife back home and run for President there. We don’t really want him or Mexico here.
I actually like that part about him.
But I still want the fence built, and he doesn't. So there.
So...Gringo isn’t a racist term?
A tree-lined square in Leon, a colonial-era city in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, is the perfect spot for Jebbie and his main squeeze to hole up for good. Don’t call us, Jebbie, we’ll call you.
It’s like having family everywhere...
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