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 $50k to the church to give to Jeb.
Any church paying thousands of dollars to bring in someone to speak is a corporation disguising itself as a church.
Sorry, but I find this sickening.
What can he send to Jeb's campaign to run his nose in this on?
It would have been a lot cheaper for the church to serve everyone who attended a big turkey dinner and a couple of 5 mg capsules of melatonin...
...and it would have had the same effect - drowsiness.
Well, this was an Episcopal church so it’s not as if they needed the money for any religious purpose whatsoever.
Nice fundraiser....I mean, speech.
Some Episcopal parishes, particularly those in tony neighborhoods such as where the Bush family would live, have endowments matching some good sized universities. Did the reporter find out what the assets of this particular parish are? And what Jeb Bush might have done besides just give a talk? Was there an individual or group that funded this vs. church coffers?
Money laundering. Big donor gets a tax deduction for “supporting” the church, Jeb gets money for his campaign. Easy.
He couldn’t charge it if they weren’t foolish enough to pay it
The Bush family does stuff like this all the time. They have for generations.
Obviously, that was a ploy to exceed the individual contribution limit and put mommy and daddy’s ca$h in yebbie’s pocket. Oh, and at the same time, make a normally non-deductible expense a tax deduction for mommy and daddy.
If you look at the church contributions for the month prior you’ll find they were $50K larger than normal. I’ll let you figure out who the generous givers were. :-)
Perfectly legal, too. It *can’t* be researched because it’s a church, but if it *were* researched it would pass muster. As long as Yebbie pays his income tax on it.
Disgraceful.
But then so were the Bushes. We voted for them because the other option wasn’t ‘poison lite’.