And Even Republicans Are Acting Surprised
The big news in Texas right now is that George P Bush, son of a JebBush, got elected Land Commissioner in Texas and is violating the law, hiring his friends and family, not posting jobs, and has turned the Texas General Land office to a frat house / political payoff machine that even has his retired Republican predecessor aghast.
He’s a damn Bush, people. What the hell did you expect?
If you didn’t want someone acting like a damn Bush, why the fool tarnation did you elect a damn Bush?
Personnel records show that Bush has directed at least 40 external hires between November 2014 and July 2015 but listed only four of those with the Workforce Commission.
The average salary for those four jobs was about $65,000. The average salary for the 36 jobs that were not posted was about $90,000.
Ten jobs went to campaign aides, including temporary transition director, Trey Newton, who made $17,500 per month, and the five regional outreach coordinators, who are making annual salaries of $55,000. Newton, the campaign engineer Bush once called “our Karl Rove,” left in January. He did not return a call seeking comment.
And it gets worse. His college friends and GOP donors with no management experience get triple digit salaries. Because he’s a Bush.
Last week I complained that he’s never at work because he’s out campaigning for his Dad. I guess I should have kept my mouth shut.
In related news, the latest Gallup poll says 75% of Americans see widespread government corruption. In related to the related news, they are damn right.
To me the saddest and scariest part of this story is that “75% of Americans see widespread government corruption” and yet they keep electing the same crooked politicians.
The Repubs have their base so scared and so angry that they can’t think straight. And therefore they keep electing the same crooked politicians.
That is not to say the Dems aren’t corrupt as well, but they usually stick to the legalized corruption made possible by our campaign laws and to occasional sex scandals.
1What other way, besides nepotism, and corruption, are Republicans going to get taxpayer money to continue…. to funnel contributions to the GOP, …… so they can continue to nominate, and elect, corrupt politicians???
2I’m afraid there’s a paywall for that story on the Houston Chronicle. Figures. You have to pay to find how much you’re being screwed.
3Geez, I work for the state and with 35 years of environmental science experience including 24 years in the private sector I don’t make 65k. Guess I should have spent a couple of years working for Republican campaigns or interning for the governor. I liken my service to the citizens of the Great State more as a vow of poverty but with nice benefits, retirement, and some unusual holidays (confederate heroes, LBJ’s birthday, etc). Companion to this is the TLO has laid off 17% of its workforce or paid them to retire.
4Texas Trailer:
5You can find it free here:
http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Bush-runs-Land-Office-with-campaigners-family-6515230.php
The Pee in George P is for Prescott, so another generation of Bush living up to the family name and tradition begun by the Grand-pappy of them all, Prescott Bush. They’re all war criminals or crooks, sometimes both.
6@TexasTrailerParkTrash… I was able to get to the article by searching the following:
Personnel records show that Bush has directed at least 40 external hires between November 2014 and July 2015 but listed only four of those with the Workforce Commission.
And then clicking on that link. I find that searching for an exact sentence allows me to get articles I would normally have to pay for. Good luck.
7Hopefully, this will end the Bush entitlement saga…….I am sick of all of them. Someone needs to pull the plug.
8I can’t believe he’d be that stuPeed. No, wait.
Yes, I can.
9To the Chupacabra Bush’s, everybody else is a cabrito al pastor (cooking optional)…
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(for those not familiar with the creatures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra , the local equivalent of “vampires”, tales of which are good to scare kids and adults both; and the tasty local dish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrito , http://www.angulodeportivo.com/?p=393 , many So. TX and N. Mexico restaurants specialize in the open air barbecuing of cabrito )
10If you go to the website of the General Land Office
11http://www.glo.texas.gov/
the first thing you’ll see is George P. And the second thing you’ll see is George P., along with a bio. Somewhere in there, after a little work, you might find information about what the Land Office does. But it’s pretty clear that the first purpose of the Texas General Land Office is to promote the future political ambitions of one George P. Bush. Why am I not surprised?
And on our dime, too!
“Government is too big and costs too much.”
12— Saint Ronald Reagan
So… now what? Are the GOPowers That Be going to suck up this scandal, or are they going to get rid of him for being too blatant? And is there any way the citizens of Texas can push to get him out? At some point the corruption stinks too much for almost anybody to tolerate.
13And I don’t need to point out to JAKvirginia that Saint Ronnie made government bigger and more costly. (One of many facts the GOP does its best to bury.)
14All the Bush boys, regardless of generation, know corruption when they practice it continually.
15The Bush Family Business: getting by on someone else’s dimes.
16WA Skeptic, you are too kind.
The Bush Family Business: thriving on other people’s money, the blood and backs of others, while investing in criminal enterprises. FIFY
17Just a question: What are these offices for? A Land Commissioner of Texas who politics instead of doing his job (whatever that might be). A Railroad Commssioner that doesn’t deal with the railroads. And if we took a closer look, god knows what else! Texas you got WAY bigger problems than abortion, the gays, and the border.
18And so far I haven’t heard a peep out of Jeb, G.HW. or Uncle G.W. Think they would discipline a member of the family? Oops. That just proves I have to get back on my meds!
19It is his religious right to have the public pay him for working his dad’s campaign. Didn’t we learn anything from Martyr Kim Davis in Kentucky?
20maggie, ironic thing about the Bush war criminals and their like is that they’ll throw down affluenza as an excuse with the same mouths they deny white privilege.
Perhaps that is why Republicons are so attracted to Margaret Thatcher; they are confused between irony and the Iron Lady.
Psychology isn’t my thing, so I prefer the comics who do analyze the Bush Crime Family and others of their type. Even twisted comics sometimes get it right. For example, Bill Maher who has let slip too much misogyny and xenophobia toward Muslims to be funny nailed the GOP on their homophobia: (paraphrasing) “Republicans, so anti-gay, yet constantly pulling things out of the a$$.”
In the words of Miss Juanita, “damn, damn, damn.” First the Republicons spoil satire for me, now they’re after my ironic funny bone.
21Grandpa Prestcott was a big supporter of Hitler during the first part of WW2! It is common knowlege that his company
22aided the Germans.
Prescott Bush also financed early PP,how’s that for irony?
23e platypus onion,
OK, you got me, what is: “financed early PP”?
His Wikipedia page (greatly changed since I last looked at it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush , attempts to debunk his alleged Nazi ties now.
Oh, maybe PP means Planned Parenthood, one of PB’s causes:
24“Political life[edit]Prescott Bush was politically active on social issues. He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first national capital campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947. He was also an early supporter of the United Negro College Fund, serving as chairman of the Connecticut branch in 1951.”
@e platypus onion: No irony there, if you assume that Prescott believed that only low-income women use PP. Dontcha see…PB was supporting the genocide of low-income (interpret as non-white) babies from the get-go. It’s just a Bush-t DNA problem…obviously!
25@PKM: you’re right, thank you. War criminals don’t seem to fall far from that family tree. Witness Cheney and his crew and the horrors of our involvement in the Middle East.
26🙂 🙂 2 likes.
27Too bad we don’t have a herbicide for this overgrowth of Bushes.
Make all the little green leaves fall off their money trees, for instance.
28Thanks for the tip, buskyandme, I’ll try it on the NYT next time anti-Hillary propaganda becomes newsworthy or I need to waste my free articles on artsnews when they could be saved for Krugman
29Industrial grade nasty, but commenting will only allow a small wheeze of venting … is this excess indictable?
30So, when is this thief going to be arrested?
Geeze, the kid acts more like he was a son of Haliburton than a son of Prescot
31Do Bushes move to Texas to begin their assent to the White House because we have the most gullable idiots in the country?
32The last I heard he wss passed out on a sidewalk in downtown austin. Seems he was drunk…they called his dad as he was going to some fundraiser for his pres.campaign..
Some things never change
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