Posted on 03/10/2016 7:50:03 AM PST by jimbo123
Neil Bush, the son of President George H. W. Bush, who defrauded U.S. taxpayers out of $1.5 billion dollars in the savings and loan scam, and later peddled influence for the Chinese government, (who plied him with Chinese prostitutes) has formally endorsed Senator Ted Cruz for president. You can’t make this stuff up.
This endorsement says much. Since the other, more politically involved Bush men have a distinct dislike for Mr. Cruz, I suppose Neil Bush is better than no Bush. Let’s look at the wonderful memories that Neil Bush has left us with. First there is is that little banking charade he steered us into back in 1985.
Back in 1981, Neil Bush was director of Silverado Savings and Loan in Denver, Colorado. Neil was very generous, lending millions to pals Kenneth Good and William Walters. The $250 million in loans went into default, S.S. & L. went bankrupt and had to be seized by the Feds. Neil Bush walked away with a cool $100,000 personal loan which he never paid back. Documents released by the Office of Thrift Supervision detailed the conflict of interest charges against Neil. Federal regulators described him as “unqualified, and untrained” to be a director of a financial institution.
It seems Neil miscalculated just how much he knew about directing a mega financial institution like Silverado Savings and Loan. By the summer of 1990, the cost of bailing out the savings and loan industry would cost at least $500 billion! Neil’s Silverado adventure cost U.S. taxpayers $1.5 billion.
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So Trump has never hired a racist? Interesting.
Man there’s a lot of desperation today.
We need to remember that Cruz supporters are seeing some harsh truths today. If we bear in mind that they care deeply about the USA, maybe this forum can unite.
Wouldn’t that be great?
Trump will be taking money for the general though. So that point is moot.
Yes Trump has taken in money from KKK supporters. So that means he approves of their message now, by your broken logic.
I take the Reagan approach. Those who endorse are signing on to the message of the nominee...not the other way around.
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You draw no distinction between inviting someone into your campaign vs. someone sent you $10?
There is a greater standard of care adding someone to your campaign committee than accepting a small donation where he only information to the donee is a persons name, address and place of occupation (often filled in as “retired or self-employed”)
Do you have a link for those KKK contributions? I would like to see if it was returned.
But by all means, please send that along.
I get hammered on this board for saying so, but Levin has outed himself as the ultimate fraud. The “Great One” as he so often refers to himself is utterly devoid of the principles he attacks others for lacking. If he was, he’d see through the Cruz sham and embrace Trump. None are truly outsiders, but Trump is as independent as they come in today’s world, due to his immense wealth and ability to say no to PACs and donations. The fact that Levin willfully ignores all of Ted’s obvious insider connections confirms that Levin is an insider himself.
Do you even know what a contested convention is? If no one has the number of delegates to win then it has to at least be a contested convention. Even if trump is one vote short...it is now a contested convention (even if they elect Trump in the end).
geeze...where are all these uneducated voters coming from? Oh wait...
Such desperation. And the weird thing is that Cruz supporters are motivated by patriotism.
He was foolish to take in the Bush family, and he was foolish to say that he is ‘fine with contested convention’ ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407082/posts
HIS PATRIOTIC SUPPORTERS DESERVE BETTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is failing his supporters big-time. Cruz wants to win so badly that he’s losing sight of what we need — unity.
According to some, Cruz and Prince Hashim are both eligible to run for US President.
Has Ted ever released his “Consular Report of Birth” to verify his eligibility? I’d like someone to ask him that.
How many years have we been believing “conservative” policy stands, and where are we now? For example, Ted Cruz says that he opposes TPP, but his voting record shows that he actually supported it. Ted Cruz leads you to believe he is for States Rights, but his record at the FTC was to intervene in States actually exercising their rights. Every time he did this he had a “good reason”, but the effect was the same.
Donald Trump correctly captures this in the phrase: “Lyin’ Ted”
In addition, you have been fooled by the “Left-Right” paradigm. Even Glenn Beck, before his forced conversion, was able to see through that one. The actual struggle is between the authoritarians and the libertarians.
There is only one candidate that is free of outside influence from the authoritarians to be able to move use back toward the libertarian side.
Ah so someone signing on to Cruz’ platform and helping Cruz win makes Cruz the puppet.
In that case, when will Trump have Hillary bow out of the election for signing on to her platform by giving her money?
Neil was pretty hard to defend back in the day. Remember when? Here’s an excerpt from 2003:
In a court deposition, taken in March and released this week, Neil claims that attractive women came to his hotel door looking for sex while he was on business trips in Hong Kong and Thailand. And as a big-hearted Texan, Neil, the third of five Bush children, merely did as he was asked.
“You have to admit it’s pretty remarkable for a man to go to a hotel room door and open it and have sex with her,” said his ex-wife’s lawyer, Marshall Davis Brown.
“It was very unusual,” Bush replied. He insists he didn’t know them, did not see them afterwards and didn’t pay them.
“Were they prostitutes?” he was asked.
“I don’t know,” he said.
Bush, 48, divorced his wife, Sharon, in April after 23 years of marriage. The split came after a bitter dispute with another couple, Maria and Robert Andrews, whom they met several years earlier.
Sharon, who is the subject of a US$850,000 defamation suit after she alleged that Bush was the father of the Andrews’ two-year-old son, has called on Neil Bush and Andrews to take paternity tests. Bush and Maria Andrews are now a couple.
On Friday last week a Texas judge ordered Sharon Bush to allow one of their daughters, Ashley, 14, to accompany Neil and Maria to France for Thanksgiving.
“They don’t even celebrate Thanksgiving in France,” said a friend of Sharon’s.
The deposition also shed light on Bush’s business dealings and ability to land fat contracts with little expertise.
The hotel trysts took place while Bush was working as a consultant for Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp, which is backed by the son of former Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, for which he was paid US$2 million in stock options over five years.
It is not the first time that he has been involved in corporate controversy. In the late 1980s he was director of Denver-based Silverado Savings & Loan, which collapsed at a cost to taxpayers of US$1 billion. At the time he denied any wrongdoing but was sanctioned by the federal government for his part in the failure.
During the deposition Brown asked: “Now, you have absolutely no education background in semiconductors, do you Mr Bush?”
“That’s correct,” Bush said.
Brown also questioned him about work for Crest Investment Corp, where he was paid US$5,000 a month for work that totaled no more than four hours a week. Bush said he provided Crest with “miscellaneous consulting services.”
“Such as?” asked Brown.
“Answering phone calls when the other co-chairman called and asked for advice,” Bush said.
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‘Do you even know what a contested convention is?’
All too well ...
Cleveland Stocking Up On Riot Gear Ahead Of Republican National Convention...
http://www.cleveland.com/rnc-2016/index.ssf/2016/03/cleveland_seeking_to_buy_riot.html
DO YOU SEE THE DNC PRIMARY?
All those super-delegates voting for ‘Six Flip’ Hillary? How’s that working out? DNC voter turnout sucks canal water.
The second-place candidate should support the front runner for the good of the party. And prior to that, any thought of a contested convention should be vehemently opposed.
You deserve better than this campaign.
Huh? What does the DNC have to do with this?
Even if the 2nd place person supports the first place person it is STILL a contested convention.
WOw...I think I found the person Trump loves ;-)
Should be “A Consular Report of Birth ABROAD”.
Not only that but born in this country as well — although I agree that if your parents were abroad serving this country (active duty military or diplomatic service) then a citizen should also be considered natural born and eligible to run for president. Why is it that article II of the constitution does not mean anything these days? Our founding fathers put that condition in our constitution for our protection, we ignored it once and got the worst president we have ever had, and now we are going to ignore it again, and by doing so render it meaningless forever?
I think we are being tricked with the Cruz candidacy, we are agreeing that Obama is legitimate by casting a vote for Cruz, and we are opening the door to someday making a foreigner, with only the most minimal connection to the US, and holding none of the beliefs we hold dear, the commander in chief of our military. What folly this is, and why can’t Cruz supporters see this? How can they be so short sighted?
Personally, I think that the US constitution, outside of the scripture, is the most sacred document ever penned in human history, inspired by God Himself. How unwise we are to ignore it!
‘Huh? What does the DNC have to do with this?’
Freed up delegates who we don’t vote for. That’s the same as being a super-delegate. Who the heck wants that? Only someone too selfish to unify the party.
Because they, like Esau, are wiling to sell their birthright for a bowl of pottage.
Right. But we don’t need to go after him that way. We are winning without it. And his taking in the Bush family. All we need to do now is to point out how selfish it is to want to win so badly that you divide the party.
That’s selfish. It’s so foolish, so brazen, that Cruz supporters will drop away from him. He should fight to the finish to be front runner. If he fails, he should unify the party behind the front runner. That would be patriotic statesmanship.
Cruz supporters deserve better. They are beginning to realize it. Most of them anyway.
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