Unchanged: Although it now has electricity and running water, Arpero remains relatively remote and heavily dependent on agriculture. Villagers say class remains an issue in Mexico and townspeople look down on them
Posted on 01/22/2015 11:36:08 AM PST by dennisw
EXCLUSIVE: An illegal immigrant, warring parents and a bitter rift with the father she did not see for 40 years – extraordinary story of Columba Bush as her husband bids to make her the first Hispanic first lady
Columba Bush was born and raised in Leon, 250 miles outside Mexico City, where she met Jeb Bush and married him when she was 20
Her father was born to a peasant family and entered America illegally to work He had a stormy marriage to her mother and the couple divorced – but Columba's account differs from his and his relatives' in Mexico today Columba was estranged from her father after her marriage and he twice reached out to the Bush family, including her brother-in-law, for contact He went to his grave without meeting his three grandchildren and 'followed his daughter's life through newspaper clippings'
The daughter of a Mexican peasant from a farm without running water Columba, it can be disclosed, is the daughter of a man who crossed into American illegally to work, who was accused of beating her, and with whom she was never reconciled – even in death.
In Mexico, her relatives are proud that someone from a remote and still poor area is in a position to make history, but saddened that she no longer has a relationship with her extended family.
The key to Columba’s life story is in fact her father Jose Maria Garnica Rodriguez – a man who went to his grave without seeing her for decades, saddened that he did not know his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Antonia Morales Garnica, Jose Maria’s second wife, told Daily Mail : ‘Jose Maria’s dying wish was to meet his grandchildren – Columba’s kids.
‘He wanted to meet his grandchildren. He died with that wish unfulfilled.’
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Will this get Jebbie the Hispanic vote?
I’m sure she is a nice lady. But her husband does NOT deserve to be president.
Unchanged: Although it now has electricity and running water, Arpero remains relatively remote and heavily dependent on agriculture. Villagers say class remains an issue in Mexico and townspeople look down on them
This is why he is the pick for the GOPe. His ability to speak Spanish and his Mexican wife.
If the Hispanic vote just shifts a bit, he wins in a landslide.
The Bush Family looks to Mexico for help.
Remember how they started publishing stories about Barbara and Laura to show what great women they were.
Jeb knows he is in trouble.
Columba had nothing to declare.
I knew someone in Tallahassee and this lady loves shopping sprees and seldom was in Tallahassee with her husband.
Jeb’ll lose.
We know it.
You know it.
The dim-bulb-crat party knows it.
The MSM knows it.
Only the GOP (soon to be dead, dead, dead) does not know it.
Jeb’ll lose.
We know it.
You know it.
The dim-bulb-crat party knows it.
The MSM knows it.
Only the GOP (soon to be dead, dead, dead) does not know it.
What a puff piece from DM.
I’m more interested in making Cruz the first Hispanic president.
Nothing to declare! ( ; )
Bush Embarrassed By Wife’s Run-in With Customs
June 22, 1999|By DAVID COX and JOHN KENNEDY Tallahassee Bureau
TALLAHASSEE — Florida first lady Columba Bush made a mistake and “feels horrible” about her embarrassing run-in with U.S. Customs agents late last week, a chagrined Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday.
“I can assure you it was a difficult weekend at our house,” the governor said. “She knew that what she did was wrong and [she] made a mistake.”
Columba Bush was briefly detained and fined at Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport on Thursday after her arrival following a five-day shopping spree in Paris. The governor was not with her. She declared only $500 worth of merchandise on a Customs form at the airport. But during a random check, agents found receipts indicating the governor’s wife was toting about $19,000 worth of clothing and jewelry bought in France.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-06-22/news/9906220022_1_columba-bush-jeb-bush-governor-s-wife
Yup. Another Michelle Obama.
Yepper. That’s her idea of what America should look like when she gets through with it.
She graduated to the Upper Class, the Peons live in the dirty little villages and do the laundry while she heads to Paris for shopping trips. Maybe she met up with Mrs. Baby Doc there to get a few hundred pairs of shoes.
It’s almost as if his marriage to a Hispanic woman was a plot to get him into the White Hut the entire time. ;-o
Youre spewing BS
Jeb Bush is not my first, second, third, fourth, tenth, or 999th choice as GOP Presidential nominee. Ditto Mitt Romney.
Having said that, I find it at best interesting and at worst disgusting that if either were the nominee for the Democrats, Anne Romney’s multiple sclerosis would have made her the Perfect First Lady For The Differently Abled Among Us, and Columba Bush’s pseudo-immigrant Mexican heritage would make her the Perfect First Lady For The Differently Citizened Among Us. Instead, Anne Romney was the Spoiled Rich Kid Who Got A Horse For Her MS, and Columba will become the Mounds Bar (brown on the outside, pure white in the middle) Traitor To Her People.
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