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Jeb’s brother Neil Bush joins Cruz finance team, possibly opening door to more Bush support
Dallas Morning News ^ | 3/8/16 | Todd J. Gillman

Posted on 03/08/2016 12:44:03 PM PST by jimbo123

Neil Bush, brother of Jeb and George W. Bush, has joined the Ted Cruz national finance team, the senator’s campaign announced this afternoon.

Whether Neil Bush is an outlier within the family, or the vanguard of a dynastic shift, remains to be seen.

“This is certainly great news,” said Cruz communications director Alice Stewart.

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Neil Bush, a Houston businessman, was a director at Denver-based Silverado Savings and Loan in the 1980s. Its failure caused political headaches for his father, then the vice president.

(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; bushcorruption; cruz; elites; establishment; neilbush; silverado; tedcruz; wtf
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To: Lion Den Dan

Same here.
I will vote Trump.
My #2 choice is to write in Trump.
Then vote out everyone with an (R) next to their name.
Just my little way of burning the party down. Take them out of power.


41 posted on 03/08/2016 1:01:57 PM PST by mabelkitty (Trump 2016!)
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To: jimbo123

I find it very sad that people who claim to be conservatives are on this forum trashing a man just because of who his family is.
As far as I can tell Neil Bush has largely stayed out of politics.


42 posted on 03/08/2016 1:02:11 PM PST by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: jimbo123
This is the pathway to however much money and institutional support is required to be the Republican nominee.

All regular candidates must walk that path.

But only Trump can blow up the bridges and take the levers of power from them.

43 posted on 03/08/2016 1:02:23 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

These are “interesting times” as the Chink proverb goes.

I believe this will sink Cruz once and for all. And I like Cruz, and always had a lot of respect for him. That is evaporating quickly.

You know Trump is going to go crazy on Ted with this news. I’m surprised he hasn’t tweeted something about it yet.


44 posted on 03/08/2016 1:04:46 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk
"What is Cruz doing?"

It's all about the money.

It costs $1-$1.5 billion to get elected POTUS.

Ted Cruz is happy to have these people aboard, even though they are driving now.

It's his only viable path.

45 posted on 03/08/2016 1:04:56 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Defiant

You are right.
He is no longer considered anti-establishment.
He wanted them to come crawling to him, and they have. His ego, as expected, has taken hold.

So. Again. Where is Glenn Beck in all this? What does he have to say?


46 posted on 03/08/2016 1:05:30 PM PST by mabelkitty (Trump 2016!)
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To: jimbo123

any association with any Bush family member only sullies Cruz, but hey, isn’t his wife is a CFR associate? During GHB presidency, wasn’t there some sort of controversy of Neil Bush getting appointed to some board and being paid $100K+ for doing nothing? And when that info got out and Neil was forced to resign his position? I recall seeing a reporter trying ask him a question about that issue and he walked very quickly in the other direction. Cruz’s campaign ought to be toast.


47 posted on 03/08/2016 1:05:38 PM PST by drypowder
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To: jimbo123

BWA HAHAHAH. The Bushies are now with Cruz. Too rich.


48 posted on 03/08/2016 1:06:33 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: dynoman

You forgot to put Chris Christie standing next to Trump in that graphic.


49 posted on 03/08/2016 1:06:46 PM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon (Will Trump's inaugural address be longer than 140 characters??)
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To: jimbo123

Sigh. And I just mailed in my absentee ballot with Cruz marked as my choice.

:(


50 posted on 03/08/2016 1:11:36 PM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: mabelkitty
"Just my little way of burning the party down. Take them out of power."

First, the GOP must die.

Everything else comes after that.

51 posted on 03/08/2016 1:12:02 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon
Cruz Bots

Fair Trade? TPP?

Corker Bill to allow Iran deal with a Majority

Take it somewhere Else

Like Goldman Sachs

Club for Growth

52 posted on 03/08/2016 1:12:51 PM PST by scooby321
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To: manc
Oh grow up everyone and/or take a chill pill. Welcome to the world of how Washington works, how it's always worked and how it probably will work.

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.


53 posted on 03/08/2016 1:13:12 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo ("Donald J, Trump. Hmm, hmm, HMM!" ....(sound of approaching jackboots))
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To: jimbo123

Well, well, well.


54 posted on 03/08/2016 1:13:29 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: bassmaner

He won’t even stay away from Glenn Beck, so what makes anyone think he won’t embrace the Bushes?


55 posted on 03/08/2016 1:15:03 PM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: dynoman

Thank you for that, it answers the idiots question much better that anything else.


56 posted on 03/08/2016 1:17:36 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Silverado.


57 posted on 03/08/2016 1:17:43 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Bush might be hoping for a VP slot.


58 posted on 03/08/2016 1:18:03 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: chae

Silverado.


59 posted on 03/08/2016 1:19:32 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

60 posted on 03/08/2016 1:21:35 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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