Documents Show The Expensive Tastes Of Jeb Bush’s Low-Key Wife [GOP-e?]

Washington Post ^ | February 22, 2015 | Karen Tumulty and Alice Crites

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By Karen Tumulty and Alice Crites February 22 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 I’ve 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.

[peyton randolph]

See. It’s okay for the WaPo to do a hit piece on a Mexican...as long as that Mexican is Republican (albeit GOPe).

[rrrod]

Cant wait till Bush is asked if his wife ever travel using a mexican passport.......he he he

[Ann Archy]

I worked at Mayor’s Jeweler’s.....she must have bought a very small trinket!

[Diogenesis]

The water to have saved Terry Schiavo would have
cost NOTHING.

NOTHING.

[Dagnabitt]

Addictions seem common in the Bush family.

Drink, Drugs, Diamonds...

(anyone got a "D" word for Amnesty?)

[nascarnation]

FReepers may hate Jeb but he’s still enough of a threat that the MSM is firing all barrels at him.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[italianquaker]

Funny crickets about the mooch

[Sacajaweau]

Jewelry is an investment.

[RoosterRedux]

Jeb Bush is a non-starter...but is within his rights to try.

[JohnBrowdie]

if the republicans were attacking the Hispanic wife of a democrat politician, the MSM would be crapping their pants

[discostu]

Can they afford it? Then who gives a crap.

[RginTN]

oooohhhh...the media’s fav Republican getting attacked by the media already!

This is so amusing as the GOPe says Conservatives aren’t electable because the media will attack them11

[miserare]

Columba sounds like another Teresa Heinz.

Maybe Jeb can jettison her in time for the primary?

[what's up]

Did we see Tarayza Heinz Kerry scrutinized for her jewelry purchases?

How many mansions did Kerry own when he was running for Prez? And Jeb & Wife live own a $1.3 million townhouse? PLEASE!

[miserare]

Amen!

Jeb and Columba were drinking champagne while Terri died of thirst.

Florida’s own Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette.

[TomGuy]

If they [the various people mentioned in the article] are that frivilous spending their own money, imagine how much they enjoy spending other peoples' money.

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She [Columba] was a long-standing customer of Mayors, shopping at one of its locations, since closed, in the Miami suburb of Sunrise.

Makes it sound like she shopped there a lot when Jeb was Gov. After that the store couldn't stay in business without Columba's spending, so it closed.

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I must have missed the part about the Obamas' Wagyu steak dinners.

[Ditter]

What difference at this point does it make?????

Did any of the jewelers die?

[TomGuy]

I worked at Mayor’s Jeweler’s.....she must have bought a very small trinket!

According to the article, she took out several loans over a period of years to purchase several items of jewelry, including a Rolex watch.