George P Bush
As most of you know, George P Bush (Son of a Jeb) is running for office in Texas. Although he refuses to say what office, his Dad is asking people to give him money to run for Land Commissioner.
What does a Land Commissioner do, you ask?
“The Texas General Land Office serves the schoolchildren, veterans, and all people of Texas by preserving their history, protecting their environment, expanding economic opportunity, and maximizing state revenue through innovative administration and prudent stewardship of state lands and resources.”
George P is a real estate developer. Fox, meet hen house.
He has a website, and typical of the Bushes, it looks real pretty but contains very little.
His campaign treasure is Kit Moncrief, the socialite wife of a Fort Worth oilman, who was also a bundler for Mitt Romney.
So a Bush real estate developer wants to guard Texas land with support from a 1%er.
What could possible be wrong with that?
Following tradition, as in Texas, so goes the nation into the 21st Century. In 2000, George W. Bush appointed Christopher Cox to guard the SEC. Mr. Cox was a good family friend & looked the other way while the foxes raided the hen house. We all know how that turned out – first the golden eggs went, then the hens.
1the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
never more important than now.
2There’s a problem with the way the General Land Office is set up. Leaving aside my personal feeling that this Bush is just like the other Bushes…it’s impossible to do the job that description lists. “…preserving their history, protecting their environment…” requires leaving stuff alone, or fixing what’s been done wrong. But that COSTS money. When you get to “…expanding economic opportunity, and maximizing state revenue through innovative administration…” that’s not preservation, but exploitation of resources. “Maximizing state revenues means MAKING money, in this instance by exploiting the environment. So those two clauses do not fit into “….prudent stewardship of state lands and resources.”
Granted, I think Bush would be a lousy Land Commissioner, and likely to ignore the first two clauses (it’s not HIS state’s history or environment, and I doubt he gives a damn about Texas schoolchildren or veterans) in favor of the last two, but it’s still the fault of whomever set up the Land Commission that way and made a loophole as big as the state for people like Bush to stroll through.
3The Texas Land Commissioner is also now in charge of the ALAMO after taking it away from the Daughters of the Republic of Texas … I doubt the fella even knows what the Alamo is let alone ever darken its door …
4Isn’t G.P.one of those grandchildren G.H.W. used to call his little brownies being as how their mama is a messkin or somethin’ like that?
5mizcreant–yeah, that’s why they want him to run: good way to secure the latino vote….or that’s the argument, at least
6Yep, the “little brown ones”. Didn’t he grow up in Florida? Went to UT Law, but that does not make him Texan – living in Ft. Worth is a sure sign that you are up to your ears in Oil & Gas and RePiggery Lies~Xtian fundies.
7Land and Ag Commissioner are stepping stone offices to get Repugs name recognition with little to do and time to campaign for future office on the taxpayer dime. Look at the pattern over the last 15 yrs. They are prepping him to run for Gov. He is Hispanic you know. I bet the people on the east side of Houston can relate to him…. NOT.
8For the love of humanity, no more Bushes! Hasn’t this family done enough?
9“Prudent stewardship” is required. I wonder what President George H W Bush (as played by Dana Carvey on SNL) would say about his grandson for Land Commissioner? “Wouldn’t be prudent. Wouldn’t be prudent at this juncture.”
10Way to reach out to Latinos, GOP. I’m sure that Latinos will be as proud of this George Bush as I am (as a woman) of Sarah Palin. Every bit as proud.
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