Posted on 03/08/2016 11:47:46 AM PST by dragnet2
Neil Bush, son of former President George H.W. Bush and brother of former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is joining Cruz's national finance team, the campaign said Tuesday.
“They keep saying Cruz isn’t part of the establishment yet every time there is a new announcement of someone coming on board, it’s another GOPe guy.”
Cruz: “ Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! “
“Watch out for site pests(SP) and newbies. “
And a few dozen “sleeper trolls”
Silverado Savings and Loan[edit]
Silverado Savings and Loan collapsed in 1988, costing taxpayers $1.3 billion. Neil Bush, the son of then Vice President of the United States George H. W. Bush, was on the Board of Directors of Silverado at the time. Neil Bush was accused of giving himself a loan from Silverado, but he denied all wrongdoing.[28]
The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision investigated Silverado’s failure and determined that Neil Bush had engaged in numerous “breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest”.
Although Bush was not indicted on criminal charges, a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court, with Bush paying $50,000 as part of the settlement, The Washington Post reported.[29]
As a director of a failing thrift, Bush voted to approve $100 million in what were ultimately bad loans to two of his business partners. And in voting for the loans, he failed to inform fellow board members at Silverado Savings & Loan that the loan applicants were his business partners.[30]
Neil Bush paid a $50,000 fine, paid for him by Republican supporters,[31] and was banned from banking activities for his role in taking down Silverado, which cost taxpayers $1.3 billion. An RTC suit against Bush and other Silverado officers was settled in 1991 for $26.5 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
You are categorically insane if you think for a new York minute that trump, other than holding a limited conservative view on guns and the border, is in anyway a Conservative.
He’s blue dog!
If it takes farting in a elevator to get the attention of you people on the trump bandwagon, I am happy to do it...
I say this because that defuses your obvious reply. Or should I say “Oblivious” reply.
BOL!
I feel better now.
This shows a few things. Cruz doesn’t think he can win without Bush resources.
And he doesn’t expect to be offered the veep job.
Most importantly—we’ve established what he is: now the GOPe and Ted are just haggling over his price.
But just watch—in six months when the tainted neo-con, NWO/NAU, US Chamber of Commerce, SEIU, cheap labor/open borders cash doesn’t work for him any better than it did for McCain, RomneyI, Jeb, RomneyII or Rubio, Cruz’s supporters will be arguing the possibilities that Eduardo might still be vice-president.
Excellent demonstration of simple logic. It’s amazing that so many so-called conservatives fail to apply it. I thought that was supposed to be in our wheelhouse.
If anyone here wishes to dress down 2nd place Senator Ted Cruz for making a strategic fundraising alliance to essentially knock out Trump ("Mercy sakes alive! Imagine THAT!! Politics!"), then I'd suggest they might have some soul-searching to do in the hypocrisy department.
From the 1970's until about one year ago, one could not find a person more connected with elite Washington, with RINO's and Lib Dem's alike, through donations, through hiring of Beltway bandit GOPe Establishment law firms and K Street kings like Stone and Manafort, through connections with every bit of the "system" as any one else assailed here...than Donald John Trump. Fact is he has RINO centrist and DC praetorian guard types with his campaign in PR, finance and strategy and so much of this is simply kabuki until the general election wherein Trump will (as Dole, McCain and Romney before him) return to the default Establishment position. Cruz has demonstrably thrown in far less than Trump over the last 20 years in terms with incestual money flow connections with the caliginous rooms near the Potomac. Cruz has been considered as somewhat of a "quack" in official DC (that's FR territory!) such has been his anti-establishment words and creds. He's been scourged with a perfect 100% voting record from the American Conservative Union--and he'd be no less than •bashed• right here on FR of all places? What gives!?
Please folks. Get another reality once-over. Your narrative is full of holes and while somewhat romantic but mythical, it just simply does not jive with the reality of Mr. Trump and his longstanding ambidextrous, weathervane-like political proclivities and predilections for many years.
Um, duh. A lot of Republicans did, including ones who aren't supportive of Jeb or Marco and some, like Christie, who now support Trump.
The last two republican presidents were Bushes and the governors of two of the largest states.
I'm saying this because I love the Bushes. But if you are going to start throwing out everyone who ever worked in a Bush administration then you're going to end up with pretty much nobody.
Cruzers will tell us Neil Bush is anti-Establishment now.
ROFLMAO.
From Wikipedia:
Neil Bush was a member of the board of directors of Denver-based Silverado Savings and Loan during the 1980s' larger savings and loan crisis. As his father, George H. W. Bush, was Vice President of the United States, his role in Silverado's failure was a focal point of publicity. According to a piece in Salon, Silverado's collapse cost taxpayers $1.3 billion.[4] The US Office of Thrift Supervision investigated Silverado's failure and determined that Bush had engaged in numerous "breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest." Although Bush was not indicted on criminal charges, a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court, with Bush paying $50,000 as part of the settlement.[5] A friend who also donated funds to the Republican Party set up a fund to help defer costs Neil incurred in his S&L legal defense
Please tell me again how Ted is a principled conservative and not an establishment hack??
Some may not find that development so surprising.
;)
Cruz....the true outsider. LOL
So now a vote for Cruz becomes a late vote for Bush.
Poor Ted is sure going to owe a lot of favors $$.
Donald Trump has never presented himself as a “principled conservative” and “establishment fighter”. Ted Cruz has and with Neil Bush on his staff is clearly a FRAUD.
It could be worse, he could be a professional politician lawyer and GOP establishment insider like both Cruz and Rubio are.
“As the GOPe and Cruz Campaign Turns” Tune in on channel 3 for tomorrow’s exciting adventure of “Will the government shut down, or will they shoot each other”....same channel, same time....
LMAO..Cruz couldn’t have picked a better set of people to help him!!!
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