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Jeb Bush Charged Parents' Church $50,000 For Speech; Houston Church Paid More Than Most Corporations
IBT ^ | 10/6/15 | Jackie Salo

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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KEYWORDS: deportjebbush; designatedloser; gope; noshowjob; noshowspeech
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To: marron

Our church budget is about $100K/year, with about 1/3 of it going to charities and missions. But in ANY real church, a $50,000 payment ought to raise some eyebrows!


61 posted on 10/06/2015 2:26:06 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: thackney

The map looks like a shopping mall


62 posted on 10/06/2015 2:26:40 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: jimbo123
Bush's usual rate seems to be $42,500

I think I just figured it out.

His normal fee is $42k. The church's cut for being the pass through was $7500.

63 posted on 10/06/2015 2:30:57 PM PDT by marron
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To: Jim from C-Town

google something like “ Colt did not tame the west, Carrier did.” Gives a whole new perspective on things.


64 posted on 10/06/2015 2:34:59 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Jim from C-Town
It is so hot there. So hot. Without air conditioning could anyone live there?

Folks are just spoiled these days. They should try Houston Heat and Humidity wearing Long Sleeves in Fire Resistant, Arc Flash Rated gear.

Lots of us do it every day. (although I do sit on my butt in the AC much of the day)

65 posted on 10/06/2015 2:46:38 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Mercat

Houston has some of the best medical care in the country. (The Dallas county DA just got back from a couple of months psychiatric lock up there, and she hasn’t had a psychotic episode in over two days.)

If you are in as bad health as HW, Houston makes sense. And the country club membership was already in place.


66 posted on 10/06/2015 2:57:09 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: jimbo123

So if people dropping cash in the basket each Sunday didn’t fund the church, it’s ministries, etc - but a speech by el Jebbo?


67 posted on 10/06/2015 2:57:22 PM PDT by Made In The USA (Yes Ma'am, I said I'd like three sides of bacon with my eggs. and bacon.)
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To: deport

Episcopal, eh?
OK, he’s a rainbow church of the here and now guy.
Probably got to bear hug their queer bishop.


68 posted on 10/06/2015 2:58:45 PM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: Mercat

The suburbs are very nice...down town...not so nice.


69 posted on 10/06/2015 3:02:22 PM PDT by Pierre2013 (Yellowjacket59)
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To: jimbo123

I think Jeb took $50,000 from a Gay Friendly church.

That may not be too bad.


70 posted on 10/06/2015 3:02:22 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: PAR35

Good point.


71 posted on 10/06/2015 3:07:28 PM PDT by Mercat (You don't recommend better diet and exercise for a shark bite.)
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To: All
Breaking:


72 posted on 10/06/2015 3:11:54 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

“St. Martin’s does not appear to have advertised Bush’s visit. Although the church frequently promotes its speaker series events, there is no mention of him or a Sept. 30 event on its website or Facebook page.”

Everyone in this man’s nuclear family is a petty criminal. Drugs, smuggling, attempted burglary or rape or both, public copulation and now apparent money laundering and graft. Each and every cross eyed one of them is a criminal.

Why are we still even talking about these Republican Kennedys?


73 posted on 10/06/2015 3:17:13 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Obamacons: The degenerate and venomous issue born of intimacies between Obama and neocons.)
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To: thackney
Most folks won't relate to a church with a $12 million annual budget.

Pikers by Texas standards.

Looks like First Baptist Houston is about $30 million a year ($60 million over two years per http://houstonsfirst.org/start-here/mission-18/ )

Per Wikipedia, Second Baptist Houston comes in at $55 million.

And it's not hard to find other churches that beat the $12 million.

74 posted on 10/06/2015 3:17:17 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Mercat

I absolutely loved my 13 years in Houston.....of course it was after living in DC for 10 years! I’m one of those who became a Texan in their heart.....would have stayed there when I retired except for the fact that I had no family in TX - all live in the great state of Alabama.....RTR


75 posted on 10/06/2015 3:18:06 PM PDT by BamaDi ("The definition of a racist today is anyone who is winning an argument with a liberal.")
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To: jimbo123

jeb bush is a maggot.


76 posted on 10/06/2015 3:19:34 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: PAR35

There are larger, Lakewood in Houston runs a budget of $70 million.

But I believe most people don’t attend a church of this size.


77 posted on 10/06/2015 3:25:55 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Houston has the largest two churches nationwide by population, membership 2013.

Lakewood ChurchHouston, TXPastor: Joel Osteen#1 - Attendance: 43500

Second Baptist ChurchHouston, TXPastor: Ed Young#2 - Attendance: 23659

100 largest churches;
http://www.sermoncentral.com/articleb.asp?article=Top-100-Largest-Churches


78 posted on 10/06/2015 3:50:45 PM PDT by deport
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To: thackney
Lakewood in Houston runs a budget of $70 million.

Yes, but I wasn't sure whether to consider it a church. Same with Jake's megaplex in Dallas.

St. Martins claims 9K members. I know at least one church about half that size in Dallas that has a bigger budget. An another that doesn't, but probably will hit that in a year or two now that it's bought its way out of its liberal denomination.

The Anglican church in Plano runs a $5 million budget on roughly 3000 members. http://www.christchurchplano.org/uploads/documents/Annual-Financial-Report-2015.pdf

So the numbers don't strike me as being particularly large for a church located between River Oaks and the HCC.

79 posted on 10/06/2015 4:46:17 PM PDT by PAR35
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