Amid campaign shake-up, Jeb Bush heads to Europe

Washington Post ^ | 6/9/15 | Karen Tumulty

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As his last public act before officially announcing his presidential candidacy next week, former Florida governor Jeb Bush embarked on a five-day swing through Central and Eastern Europe, meeting with leaders in three countries where Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression has been at the top of security concerns.

He is leaving behind turmoil in his campaign operation in Florida, which — in a surprise move — tapped a new campaign manager on Monday. GOP operative Danny Diaz will assume the role, rather than David Kochel, an Iowa veteran, who had been expected to hold that job but will be named chief strategist instead.

The shuffle was seen as evidence that the run-up to the campaign's formal launch has not lived up to expectations that it would put the former Florida governor in a commanding position over a large Republican field.

[Vigilanteman]

I see all of Mexico and Central America as a negligible source of immigrants to Spain.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Lion Den Dan]

Why not wait until he's had a chance to win and disgrace the office?

I shudder to think what atrocities another President would have to perpetrate to out do the current resident.

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I forgot about Central America.

It's easy to miss on the map.

As with the Mexicans, they all come here.

South Americans, particularly Ecuadorans and Columbians were common in Spain, at least until Spain's own economy ran into trouble.

[Vigilanteman]

JFYI, I lived in Japan at a time when Ecuadorans, Brazilians and Columbians or anyone else of Japanese descent in those countries were moving to Japan to take low paying factory jobs. Many of them were of the professional class, doctors, professors, business managers and the like.

That's how bad the South American economies were in the early to mid 1990s.

Some of the locals thought they would join the exodus by posing as people of Japanese descent, not realizing that Japanese immigration was pretty good at ferreting out this type of thing. Those few who weren't caught and deported usually ended up working at even lower paying jobs. Some of the more popular factory towns were desperate to hire Spanish or Portuguese speaking teachers at the time.