Posted on 10/06/2015 12:49:00 PM PDT by jimbo123
After leaving the Florida governorship, Jeb Bush often commanded tens of thousands of dollars for speaking engagements. Some of his bigger checks were signed by major corporations, private universities with considerable endowments, overseas business conferences -- and a church in Houston frequented for more than 50 years by his parents, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush.
The former Florida governor charged one of his highest fees to St. Martin's Episcopal Church last year for a Sept. 30 event, according to a financial disclosure form with the Federal Election Commission. The fee of $50,000 was his fifth-highest rate in 2014 of 43 events stateside.
Those who received a better deal than Bush's family church included FedEx, which made more than $9 billion during the 2014 fiscal year and paid Bush $28,000 for his January speech, Vanderbilt University, which has a $4 billion endowment and wrote him a check for $45,000 in October, and electrical contractor Altec Industries, which paid Bush $25,000 -- half of the St. Martin's invoice.
Bush's usual rate seems to be $42,500, which the Distinguished Speaker Series of Southern California, Hanover Insurance Group and professional service giant KPMG all paid, among about a dozen others.
The Bush family has been affiliated with St. Martin's Episcopal since Jeb's parents moved to Houston in 1959
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Gotta make hay while the sun is shining yaknow. ;-)
- Bill Clinton
I can’t figure out how people who can live anywhere they want would live in Houston. Horrible place.
Jeb needed the money to fuel his wife’s shopping trips.
Jeb and Hillary, two peas in a pod. Their idea of a job is fleecing churches, universities and charities for five, six and seven figure speaking fees. I guess that’s what you end up thinking if you have spend your entire life suckling off the government teat.
He charged a CHURCH? Good think he isn’t on the list of readers. What would he charge to read Matthew 6 next Sunday?
I always assume this kind of thing is open money laundering.
I would want to know who provided the $50k to the church to give to Jeb.
winner
Any church paying thousands of dollars to bring in someone to speak is a corporation disguising itself as a church.
Sorry, but I find this sickening.
What can he send to Jeb's campaign to run his nose in this on?
Bingo
They probably don’t spend that much time there. But Houston does have some great hospitals.
Now that’s an intriguing thought..
It would have been a lot cheaper for the church to serve everyone who attended a big turkey dinner and a couple of 5 mg capsules of melatonin...
...and it would have had the same effect - drowsiness.
If someone chose to live in a large city, where in the US would you pick over Houston?
As for most of us, we work in Houston where the jobs are and live out of town.
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