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Katrina bush joined the 7news team as a general assignment reporter for today in florida in may 2016. Bush wanted to do something specifically for education and specifically for the thousands of students flooding into the houston schools, said jean becker, former. Former first lady barbara bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the bushclinton katrina fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned. Barbara bush required that some of her gift be spent on software from neil. The entire bush family is deeply grateful for 41s life and love, for the. Barbara bush, the snowyhaired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, president george h. Barbara bushs hurricane donation benefited sons firm. In 2006 she donated an undisclosed sum to the bushclinton katrina fund. Barbara bush is such a psycho that she ordered her donation to be invested in her own company. On his countdown show thursday night, msnbcs keith olbermann devoted part of his worst person in the world segment to attacking former first lady barbara bush over a donation she made to the bush clinton katrina fund, a donation she required be used to buy education software for houston schools from her son neils software company. It was immediately followed by the overwhelming desire to help the victims.
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Barbara bush ordered her katrina donation to be specifically spent at lil neils educational software company ignite she is an investor in ignite. Did barbara bush say living in the astrodome was working. While touring the houston astrodome, where thousands of hurricane katrina refugees have been huddling, barbara bush said they didnt have it so bad because, heck, they were poor to begin with. Barbara bush earmarks katrina donation to neil bush company. Barbara bush was making a personal observation when she said poor people at a relocation center in houston were faring better than before hurricane katrina struck, president bush s. Who can forget her comments when touring the houston astrodome complex after katrina where evacuees were being housed. Bush and of the 43rd governor of florida, jeb bush. Katrina funds earmarked to pay for neil bush s software program, houston chronicle, march 23, 2006. Never has this made less sense, felipe fernandezarmesto wrote in the independent uk, september 4, 2005 karl rove. She is ailing from the early stages of pneumonia, and is reportedly. But if the bush administrations reaction to hurricane katrina was slow, so too was the medias. Former first lady barbara bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the bush clinton katrina fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned.
There are a lot of students who went through katrina and rita in the houston area, and. Cant forget barbara bushs remarks on katrina evacuees. Bush, in his 2010 memoir, decision points, acknowledged the damage that the response to katrina had done to his legacy. President clinton said on this program that, and you said earlier. Mar 23, 2006 former first lady barbara bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the bushclinton katrina fund, but directed it to go toward buying educational software from her son neils company, ignite. Accompanying her husband, former president george h. Never has this made less sense, felipe fernandezarmesto wrote in the independent uk, september 4, 2005. Learn more about one of the most popular first ladies in this article.
But then barbara bush, the presidents mom, went and dusted off the bush family silver foot monday. Aug 28, 2015 hurricane katrina badly damaged the former presidents reputation. Mar 25, 2006 the houston fund forwarded bushs donation to another nonprofit organization, which bought the software. Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in houston, barbara bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, this is working very well for them.
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Bush looks out the window of air force one 31 august. But more than a few eyebrows were raised when the former first lady stipulated that part of her contribution was to be spent on educational software purchased from her son neils company, ignite. Olbermann calls barbara bush worst person in the world. Olbermann snapped that if you make the charity give the. H earing reports that 92yearold former first lady barbara bush was near death wasnt a good way for anybody to wake up on sunday morning, as the loss of life, almost no matter. The houston fund forwarded bushs donation to another nonprofit organization, which bought the software. Later, barbara bush also donated money to the bush clinton katrina fund, with some of that money being earmarked by her to go to a software company owned by her son, neil bush mrs. Houston in a city housing thousands of katrina evacuees, barbara bushs donation to a local hurricane relief fund would not seem controversial. Former first lady, barbara bush has been hospitalized in houston, texas at texas medical centers methodist hospital.
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