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Documents show the expensive tastes of Jeb Bush’s low-key wife
Washington ComPost ^ | February 22 2015 | By Karen Tumulty and Alice Crites

Posted on 02/23/2015 6:31:02 AM PST by US Navy Vet

In 1999, Columba Bush, the famously private wife of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was detained and fined by federal customs officials for misrepresenting the amount of clothing and jewelry she had bought while on a solo five-day shopping spree in Paris.

The incident left the Florida first lady deeply mortified and her husband politically chagrined. Jeb Bush said the first lady had misled customs officials because she did not want him to know that she had spent about $19,000 on the trip.

“The embarrassment I felt made me ashamed to face my family and friends,” Columba Bush said in a July 1999 speech to the Central Florida Make-a-Wish Foundation, not long after the incident. “It was the worst feeling I’ve ever had in my life.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: gope; rino
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To: rfreedom4u

exactly.


41 posted on 02/23/2015 8:09:17 AM PST by bonfire
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To: nonliberal

“How tall is she? Shouldn’t she be at the Nort Pole making toys?”

I offered to `share the load’ with her by carrying the One Ring in Mordor.”
Brian Williams


42 posted on 02/23/2015 8:11:00 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Baynative
In that picture, Mrs. Bush reminds me of Shelley Morrison who played the role of Rosario, Karen Walker's housekeeper in the TV program Will & Grace......
43 posted on 02/23/2015 8:15:32 AM PST by varon (Para bellum)
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To: Liz

Jebster has the look of his mother.


44 posted on 02/23/2015 8:27:45 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: tumblindice

45 posted on 02/23/2015 9:11:38 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: US Navy Vet

so...she is Marie Antoinette, with a little Imelda Marcos thrown in for good measure.

Meanwhile Michelle Obama is Joan of Arc.

I so friggin’ HATE the media!


46 posted on 02/23/2015 9:41:27 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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