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AUGUST 7, 2000

See complaint at link. P. was a problem ever since he broke up with his girlfriend, for 1.5 YEARS.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/nut-some-soup-0

1) George P. Bush might be a hunkalicious young Republican, but he still seems a bit creepy. So TSG wasn’t too surprised to learn that “P” was involved in a troubling 1994 incident described in this Metro-Dade Police Department report. On December 31, 1994, Bush showed up at 4 AM at the Miami home of a former girlfriend. He proceeded to break into the house via the woman’s bedroom window, and then began arguing with his ex’s father. Bush, then a Rice University student, soon fled the scene. But he returned 20 minutes later to drive his Ford Explorer across the home’s front lawn, leaving wide swaths of burned grass in his wake. Young Bush avoided arrest when the victims declined to press charges. (3 pages)

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Noelle Bush, daughter of Florida’s then-governor Jeb Bush, was originally arrested for trying to fill a Xanax prescription written to someone else. Was that someone else Columba?

Excerpt from Miami Herald article below:

“In a 1999 Herald interview, both Bushes admitted that he had detached from his wife and kids during the campaign, and that one of their kids acted out with drugs.

Columba, says an insider, plummeted into depression, which has a strong genetic component and links to anxiety disorders. But she eventually rallied.”

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A SHY HOMEBODY AT HEART, SHE PROMOTES ARTS, SPREADS ANTI-DRUG GOSPEL

Miami Herald, The (FL) (Published as The Miami Herald) - November 2, 2002

Author/Byline: ELINOR J. BRECHER

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NOELLE’S CRISES

On the heels of that mortification, their daughter was arrested for prescription fraud. Noelle Bush, 25, tried to obtain the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. The open secret of her addiction, which the media ignored as long as it stayed in the family, couldn’t be avoided.

``She gets worried, sad and hurt about her daughter,’’ says Julio Solozano-Foppa, who produces the Ballet Folclórico de Mexico, which enjoys the Bush family’s patronage; Columba heads an educational division.

He met Columba 13 years ago, when the troupe danced in Miami, and became a close friend.

``It’s been extremely difficult for her. She has a sense of, `What can I do . . . ?’ ‘’

Bush’s torment only increased when Noelle did 10 days in jail recently after drug-treatment counselors found crack cocaine in her shoe. Talk shows and letters-to-the-editor pages thundered with criticism: Where was the unfortunate young woman’s mother when a judge ordered her hauled off in handcuffs?

Calling it a ``family matter,’’ neither of the Bushes will discuss their daughter’s problems.

Still, Bush has pushed on with her public agenda: spreading the anti-drug-abuse gospel to children and promoting the arts. She continues to be a reliable workhorse for the Bush family, a role she accepted after marrying into it in 1974: a taupe-skinned, Spanish-speaking ethnic in America’s premier WASP political dynasty (mother of ``the little brown ones,’’ as her father-in-law, then-president George H.W. Bush, once called his Florida grandchildren).

Still, it’s no secret that Columba chafes at politics. It forced a crisis in her marriage after her husband narrowly lost the governorship to Lawton Chiles in 1994.

In a 1999 Herald interview, both Bushes admitted that he had detached from his wife and kids during the campaign, and that one of their kids acted out with drugs.

Columba, says an insider, plummeted into depression, which has a strong genetic component and links to anxiety disorders. But she eventually rallied.

Columba ``will adapt to anything that has to do with Jeb,’’ according to veteran South Florida journalist and real-estate broker Beatriz Parga, a one-time close friend. What she likes least about politics, Parga says, is that ``it takes Jeb away from her.’’

Columba, adds Parga, ``likes a very simple life at home, with her telenovelas,’’ Spanish-language soap operas. ``I can bet you in Tallahassee she [watches] them.’’