Hey, They Said He Was The Smart One. They Never, Ever Said He Was The Honest One.
Remember Jeb and the email dump? And that he did it for the sake of transparency?
Well, not so much.
It seems that Ole Jeb forgot to include emails of his lobbying for Bacardi in exchange for campaign contributions.
In 2002, one email exchange following Jeb’s helping Bacardi’s guy arrange meetings at the Departments of Commerce and Treasury. Bacardi had been in a long trademark fight with a Cuban rum maker. Bush was there to help Barcardi.
Six days later, on Feb. 26, Rodriguez Marquez wrote Gov. Bush again to thank the governor for his “invaluable support regarding our problems at Commerce and Treasury.”
“Thank you, Jorge. I hope it all works out,” Bush replied two hours later.
The next day, Bacardi-Martini donated $10,000 to the Republican Party of Florida. On Feb. 28, Rodriguez Marquez and his wife gave a total of $1,000 to Jeb Bush’s re-election campaign.
Neither the Bacardi chief’s thank-you email nor Bush’s reply was posted on jebemails.com.
And that’s just one example of many that were redacted from his email dump. He didn’t have time to redact other people’s social security numbers but he did have time to redact his own dirty hands.
There’s nothing wrong with Bush lobbying for Barcardi to his Dad and idiot brother. Taking $50,000 total in campaign contributions for himself and the Florida Republican party in direct exchange for it just ain’t right.
Well, he redacted the important stuff, the shilling-for-dollars stuff. Other peoples’ identity-theft bait… meh.
Anyway, it wasn’t him doing the redacting choices; it was some terribly loyal staffer, I’m sure. Who will soon be punted to the curb.
1Molly Ivins said it best: As the refrain of the country song goes, “O Please, Dear God, Not Another One.”
2Yeah, did you see those Tweets from his new Social Media guru? Mysoginist twit. The only taste that little smart-ass has is in his mouth, and it is bad.
3I’m sitting back with a big bowl of popcorn, enjoying the MSM finally doing its job. Between the closer scrutiny of Jebbie’s business dealings and what’s just been published about Walker’s lack of a college degree, I can hardly contain my glee in anticipation of the GOPers’ primary.
It’s going to be a BLAST, I’m telling you!
4Jeb is sinking faster than the Outlaw Jersey Whale. First corpse to float to the surface wins?
5I like Transparency, especially when applied to local government’s O&M. I don’t like it Applied to a presidential candidate’s brain scan, although the result is quite amusing.
6I’m still upset (although not as upset as her husband, who can’t find it in his heart to forgive Jeb) that the former Governor tried to make Terry Schiavo the FL state vegetable.
7Ah, the garbage is starting to stink.
8The Bushlets bought their degrees with endowments. Walker didn’t have the $$ or really value an education. 34 credits short of graduation by the time he reached senior year? Who’s kidding who! How in the world did he get as far as senior year with such a deficit? Around here that would keep you back in sophomore year. Oh, gee gosh! Did I say deficit in the same paragraph where I mentioned a Republican? Bad nana! Bad!
9Not a bit surprised that Jeb managed to redact any emails that might reveal his financial miscegenations, while risking other peoples’ identity…typical of the Bush attitude towards the plebes. Use ’em when you can, lose ’em when you don’t need ’em, who cares about them small fry anyway.
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