Bush Team: ‘Family Had A Good Laugh’ At ‘Paperwork Error’ Behind Jeb’s Claim He Is Hispanic On Voting Form
Source: breitbart.com
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s spokeswoman Kristy Campbell tells Breitbart News that a “paperwork error” was behind the false claim he made on a voter registration form in Florida that he is Hispanic.
“It’s unclear where the paperwork error was made,” Campbell said in an email. “The Governor’s family certainly got a good laugh out of it. He is not Hispanic.” On Twittter, Jeb Bush wrote:
Campbell’s quote comes after a New York Times report on Monday morning showed Bush claimed on a voter registration form in Florida that he was Hispanic.
“There is little doubt that Jeb Bush possesses strong credentials for appealing to Hispanic voters,” the Times’ Alan Rappeport wrote.
He speaks fluent Spanish. His wife, Columba Bush, was born in Mexico. For two years in his 20s, he lived in Venezuela, immersing himself in the country’s culture. Mr. Bush, a former Florida governor and likely presidential candidate, was born in Texas and hails from one of America’s most prominent political dynasties. But on at least one occasion, it appears he got carried away with his appeal to Spanish-speaking voters and claimed he actually was Hispanic.
Rappeport points to a 2009 voter registration form from the Miami-Dade County Elections Department where Bush “marked Hispanic in the field labeled ‘race/ethnicity.’”
Bush’s team offered reporters no explanation for the characterization. So this claim that it was a simple “paperwork error” to Breitbart News seems to be the first public explanation from Team Bush for the potentially politically disastrous mistake.
To make matters worse for Team Bush’s defense, citing Miami-Dade deputy elections supervisor Carolina Lopez, the Times’ Rappeport wrote that “voters must submit hard copies of applications with a signature before receiving a voter information card confirming their address and polling location.” That means Bush signed the document in hard copy before submitting it.
For what it’s worth, it’s pretty hard to believe this was a simple “paperwork error” when a few years after Bush marked “Hispanic” for his “race/ethnicity” on this form he publicly called himself Florida’s first ever Latino governor.
“If Bill Clinton is the first black President, I’m definitely the first Cuban, at least, or Latino Governor of the State of Florida,” Bush said at an event in 2012.
Campbell and Bush’s press team haven’t responded to a follow-up request for comment when asked by Breitbart News to explain why we should believe that him calling himself “Hispanic” in 2009 was a simple “paperwork error” when it actually seems to be a pattern of behavior from the governor with the 2012 instance as well.
Jeb Bush's Voter Registration Form
Source: breitbart.com
EXPOSED: Jeb Bush Repeatedly Says Illegal Aliens Are Better People Than Americans, Says U.S. Must Be “Fundamentally Transformed” With Mass Immigration
From: patdollard.com
Jeb Bush and his Mexican wife Columba
As you will see below, Jeb Bush is just like Obama in that he does not love America as it is, and wants to literally “fundamentally transform” it. With foreigners. He got this idea because he spent much of his youth traveling Latin America, a place he now likes and identifies with more than America. He openly says that Americans are inferior to foreigners and need to be replaced by them. Don’t believe me? Read below.
Excerpted from NRO: f Barack Obama is our first post-American president, Jeb Bush wants to be the second. David Frum had an insightful piece at The Atlantic a couple weeks back on the parallels between Obama and Jeb, and their shared post-Americanism is at the center of this similarity. Frum writes:
Jeb Bush and Barack Obama may likewise express a commonality more important than their differences over energy policy, taxes, or abortion.
Both responded by leaving the place of their youth to create new identities for themselves: Barack Obama, as an organizer in the poor African-American neighborhoods of Chicago; Jeb Bush in Mexico, Venezuela, and at last in Cuban-influenced Miami. Both are men who have talked a great deal about the feeling of being “between two worlds”: Obama, in his famous autobiography; Bush, in his speeches. Both chose wives who would more deeply connect them to their new chosen identity. Both derived from their new identity a sharp critique of their nation as it is. Both have built their campaign for president upon a deep commitment to fundamental transformation of their nation into what they believe it should be. Jeb’s dissatisfaction with America, and desire to change it to be more to his liking, is a theme he returns to often. Jeb’s enthusiasm for immigration (“the public-policy issue he cares about by far the most,” as Frum puts it) is “not only a positive judgment on the immigrants themselves,” Frum notes, but “it is also a negative judgment on native-born Americans.” Some examples, which you can watch him say on video, below the quotes from it below:
1. “They’re more entrepreneurial, they set up more business, they buy more homes, they’re more family-oriented, they work in jobs that in many cases are jobs that have gone unfilled”
2. “I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.”
3. “We have people that mope around thinking ‘my life is bad, my children will not have the same opportunities that I had.’ What a horrible notion in America, the most optimistic of places, and I think an economically driven immigration plan . . . would lift our spirits up dramatically.”
4. “The one way that we can rebuild the demographic pyramid is to fix a broken immigration system. . . . If we do this, we will rebuild our country in a way that will allow us to grow. If we don’t do it, we will be in decline, because the productivity of this country is dependent on young people that are equipped to be able to work hard….Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans over the last 20 years. Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families and they have more intact families.”
The truth or falsity of these claims is almost beside the point, because Jeb’s preference for immigrants over Americans is based on emotion, not reason.
Source: patdollard.com
