Jeb Bush in trouble with conservatives over Planned Parenthood.

[seafan]

Jeb Bush is in trouble with conservatives over the disconnect between his call to investigate and defund Planned Parenthood, and his service as a director of Bloomberg Philanthropies, in March 2014, when it announced a $50 million partnership with Planned Parenthood in Africa.


This is the same sort of thing that occurred when Jeb Bush served as a director with Tenet Health Care. He disparaged the Affordable Care Act while Tenet was a BIG beneficiary of ACA funding. And Jeb collected his "fees" from Tenet, and profited handsomely from his hospital stock sales.

Jeb Bush just wants the money, you see. This vampire squid plays both sides, if money flows into his pockets.



AP

August 1, 2015:

Before becoming a GOP candidate Bush was serving as a director of Bloomberg Philanthropies, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s non-profit, in March 2014 when it announced a $50 million partnership with Planned Parenthood in Africa.

At issue is whether Bush was aware of the initiative and if he exercised his fiduciary responsibility as one of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ directors to provide “advice and oversight” to the foundation’s management team prior to the decision to spend $50 million on the program.

“As a board member of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Governor Bush did not vote on or approve individual projects or programs. Governor Bush and Mayor Bloomberg disagree on several policy areas, including Planned Parenthood. They do share a passion for reforming education, which was Governor Bush’s focus on the board,” Jeb Bush campaign spokeswoman Kristy Campbell tells Breitbart News. That echos the themes — and some of the exact words — she first used in April when interviewed by the Tampa Bay Times on Bush’s role in the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ $50 million partnership in Africa with Planned Parenthood.

Campbell adds:

Governor Bush’s strong record of fostering a culture of life is clear, and he has called on Congress to investigate and defund Planned Parenthood in light of the recent alarming revelations about its practices. During his eight years in office, Governor Bush took measures to protect innocent life by passing a partial-birth abortion ban, fighting for a constitutional amendment requiring parental notifications and doing everything possible to promote adoption.

Even for a charity as wealthy as Bloomberg Philanthropies, whose 2013 endowment was $5.4 billion, an expenditure of $50 million over several years is a substantial portion of the estimated $200 million in grants it disburses annually. In 2013, it disbursed $204 million in grants. Data is not yet available for 2014.

When news that Bush was one of the Bloomberg Family Foundation’s nineteen founding directors from the charity’s formation in 2010 until the end of 2014 (by which time the name had been changed to Bloomberg Philanthropies) was first brought to the public’s attention in April 2015 by the Tampa Bay Times, the Bush campaign tried to minimize Bush’s involvement with the Planned Parenthood decision.

Despite the fact that the latest right wing attack on Planned Parenthood is a blatant fabrication in a long string of perverted attacks against the organization for reproductive health and cancer screening..... these zealots will never give up these unsubstantiated attacks.


Uh-oh, Mr. Bush. Your name is mud.

Maybe someone will ask him about this tonight, August 3, on CSPAN, at 6:30 EDT.

[tanyev]

1. Hey, don't forget Prescott was the treasurer that helped it all get started.

[seafan]

2. Thanks for the reminder, tanyev. Prescott Bush: Planned Parenthood + American Birth Control League

Which media figure will dare ask Jeb Bush about why he won't get with the program?


Jeb Bush rejects family tradition, opposes Planned Parenthood

In the 1950s, Prescott Bush (R-Conn.) was elected to the U.S. Senate twice, but he narrowly lost his first bid for statewide office in 1950. At the time, Bush drew criticism from church officials in Connecticut for his support of Planned Parenthood. As Roll Call reported a while ago, Prescott Bush was actually “the treasurer of the family planning group’s first national fundraising campaign.”

When his son, George H.W. Bush, was in Congress, he was such an enthusiastic supporter of Planned Parenthood’s efforts that some of his colleagues gave him an unfortunate nickname: “Rubbers.”

As Amanda Terkel reported, Jeb Bush appears to be breaking with family tradition.

Jeb Bush supports efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, according to one of his senior advisers.

Jordan Sekulow is a prominent Christian evangelical attorney and joined the former Florida governor’s team last month as a senior adviser. He spoke Saturday at the Faith and Freedom Summit in Iowa, where nine presidential hopefuls appealed to the group of conservatives in attendance. Bush, who is exploring a run and widely expected to jump into the field, skipped the event and sent Sekulow in his stead.

Jeb Bush’s surrogate speaker specifically told far-right Iowans, “We have got to defund Planned Parenthood, by the way, and Gov. Bush supports those efforts.”

I guess when it comes to family planning, the former governor really is his “own man.”

BTW, here is an interesting interview with Prescott Bush from 1953. Very fidgety guy.

Somehow, Jeb Bush doesn't look 'joyful' yet. His money-greased campaign just ain't going right.