Posted on 01/01/2015 10:36:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
With a 10 point lead in the most recent polls, Jeb Bush has apparently decided that 2016 is his year. He has now resigned from all corporate boards, clearing the way for his run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, moving closer to a possible presidential run, has resigned all of his corporate and nonprofit board memberships, including with his own education foundation, his office said late Wednesday night.
He also resigned as a paid adviser to a for-profit education company that sells online courses to public university students in exchange for a share of their tuition payments.
Bush’s New Year’s Eve disclosure, coming in an e-mail from an aide to The Washingotn Post, culminated a string of moves he has made in recent days to shed business interests that have enriched him since leaving office in 2007. The aide said the resignations had been made “effective today.”
The aide said Bush was reviewing other businesses in which he is principal partner or owner, such as Jeb Bush & Associates, a consulting firm, and Britton Hill Partnership, a business advisory group that in 2013 set up private-equity funds investing in energy and aviation.
Aides said Bush wants to devote his time to exploring a return to politics rather than pursuing his business commitments. But separating himself from those interests now could also be a strategic attempt to prepare for the added scrutiny of a hotly contested campaign for the Republican nomination.
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Political dynasties are poison to republics. A vote for Jeb Bush is a vote for corruption and plutocracy.
Agreed
Hell, he should go ahead and add Hillary as his VP and be done with it
If the race is Cruz/Hillary, Cruz has a chance. If it’s Cruz/Warren, Warren will win because by the time the media is done, most Americans will believe that Cruz is a total tool of Goldman Sachs, his wife’s upstream employer.
A cartoon exclusively for the uninformed of TX
Ted Cruz would be lucky to win the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in the Republican primary; I am unsure he would.
In a situation like this among the uninformed, 23 percent is a majority.
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