Showing posts with label Jeb Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeb Bush. Show all posts

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Jeb Bush

In '96, Bush welcomed charter schools to the state of Florida. Developers have been lining their pockets ever since. here 

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Bush And Rubio No Friend Of The Working Class

Jeb Bush went to Detroit and talked about leveling the playing field. Marco Rubio wrote a book about helping the working class.  Yet both Republican presidential candidates have offered tax proposals that would benefit overwhelmingly the wealthiest. here

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Is Jeb Bush A Schlemeil?

Translation: A bumbler, a fumbler, a person plagued by ineptitude. Or, to put it more inelegantly, a schlemeil is somebody who eludes a mud puddle only to step in dog poo.
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While trying to mend fences with Hispanics, he said that he hadn't meant to suggest that the slur term "anchor babies" applied to them. No, no. Here's what he meant: "Frankly, it's more related to Asian people coming into the country." Well, that clears things up. He hadn't meant to smear Hispanics. He was trying to smear Asians. here

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Bush Backtracks After Falling For Right-Wing Media Talking Points On Birthright Citizenship

After falling for right-wing media talking points about ending birthright citizenship and "anchor babies," Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush is scrambling to justify and backtrack his offensive rhetoric. here 

Conservative media have spent years complaining about "anchor babies" and "birth tourism," and calling for an end to birthright citizenship -- a constitutional guarantee. 
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Conservative media figures going back to Glenn Beck in his Fox News days have railed against so-called "anchor babies" and "birth tourism," the former a derogatory slur and debunked myth used against U.S. born children of non-citizens, the latter of which represents a sliver of births that experts have repeatedly pointed out are "extraordinarily rare" and an insignificant immigration problem. As Salon's Simon Maloy wrote, this "grossly nativist and legally dubious" rhetoric has nevertheless found a receptive audience among conservatives.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

GOP Open to Torture

Jeb (Veto) Bush is, so is Marco Rubio and 
three-fourths of Republican voters say 
the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation techniques were justified, compared to only 37 percent of Democrats and roughly half of independents. here

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Marco Rubio's "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act"

At the debate Megyn Kelly suggested that the Florida Republican would "favor a "rape and incest exception" to abortion bans. "I have never said that," Rubio objected. "And I have never advocated that. What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection." But he appears to be wrong about never having advocated the exception. In 2013, Rubio cosponsored a Senate bill with wide-ranging Republican support called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act, which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks, and that bill had exceptions for rape, incest, and in cases when the mother's life was threatened. here

Bush also touted his pro-life record, adding that 
He defunded Planned Parenthood 
while chief executive of Florida.  The St. Petersburg Times reported in 2003 that "Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida lost $124,000 last year from its family planning division. Bush diverted the funds to abstinence-only educational programs."

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Jeb Bush On Women's Health Issues

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed Tuesday to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood if elected to the White House.
 "I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues." 
here

"We need it for tax breaks for his rich friends." YCS

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

MaryJo Pezzi: An election rigged for Bush by Jeb Bush

The government of Florida tossed out thousands of African American Voters from the Registry in 2000 and also turned away thousands of African Americans from polling places. At the heart of this American political scandal was Gov. Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State in charge of counting the votes, who was also President of the George W. Bush for President campaign.

In fact, in ‪#‎Florida‬ a black person is 1000% more likely than a white person to have their vote thrown out.

Going into the 2016 elections, it is important to remember what happened in 2000 because Jeb Bush is now a candidate for President of the United States. here

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Letter Jeb Bush wrote to the swiftboaters in 2005

2005: Letter Jeb Bush wrote to the men who orchestrated the smear campaign against then-presidential candidate John Kerry.

2015: Enough with the slanderous attacks. @SenJohnMcCain and all our veterans - particularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours

A 2014 Gallup poll found that already many Americans employed full-time report working, on average, 47 hours a week, while nearly 4 in 10 say they work at least 50 hours a week.
US workers work more hours than workers in any other large, industrialized country, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. here

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Jeb Bush Makes $556,283 Off Obamacare

According to tax returns released by Mr. Bush’s campaign on Tuesday, he sold $1,103,424 worth of stock in Tenet Healthcare in September and October of 2013, yielding a capital gain of $556,283.

Why did Tenet's stocks outperform other stocks? Because investors anticipated that Obamacare would make hospitals more profitable, with increased usage and fewer payment defaults by uninsured patients. here

Monday, June 29, 2015

Jeb Bush's Voter Purge Part 2

Jeb Bush still doesn't have a good answer for his effort to purge Florida's voter rolls of convicted felons in 1999, the year before the infamous election in which several hundred Sunshine State votes would secure the presidency for his brother, George W. Bush. here 

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Jeb Bush's Felon Purge

The felon purge wrongfully denied thousands of legitimate voters the ability to participate in a presidential election pitting Republican George W. Bush against Democrat Al Gore. Ultimately, a few hundred Florida ballots would determine the presidency, and with it, the nation’s path for the next eight years and, really, well beyond. here

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Jeb Bush: Florida Right Wing Propaganda

"The party in the White House" is responsible for "a massive tax increase on 
the middle class."
Jeb Bush on Monday, June 15th, 2015 in a speech launching his 2016 campaign

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Jeb Bush Most Anti-Gay?

The current crop of Republican candidates for president tried to prove their antigay mettle at Friday's Faith and Freedom Coalition's conference in Washington, D.C.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush was all fire and brimstone, promising to fight the Supreme Court if it decides this month to legalize national marriage equality.
 here

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Marco Rubio Fact

Koch Brothers dumping 
Tons of toxic waste into the 
St. Johns River, daily. here