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TexasTowelie

(112,058 posts)
Sat Aug 15, 2015, 12:35 AM Aug 2015

George P. Bush: Land Office Faces Internal "Threat"

In a wood-trimmed room packed with his employees, George P. Bush spoke matter-of-factly of “many threats, asymmetric threats” swirling around the Texas General Land Office, the versatile state agency he oversees.

But the land commissioner, still in his first few months of office, wasn’t talking about the federal government or plummeting oil prices.

“The real threat, really, is internally,” Bush said in a roughly three-minute address to staffers late last month, according to a video obtained by The Texas Tribune. “And some things that I’ve seen, along with the leadership and along with you, have to be rectified as soon as possible.”

Following those remarks, one of Bush’s most senior staffers had even harsher words for the agency.

Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/14/george-p-bush-land-office-faces-internal-threat/

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George P. Bush: Land Office Faces Internal "Threat" (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2015 OP
sounds like a pogram coming, out with the undesirables nt msongs Aug 2015 #1
Ideological fanatics starting a war. hobbit709 Aug 2015 #2
We need all the details of this bizarre incident. Paladin Aug 2015 #3
You mean either they're with you, or they're against you? tanyev Aug 2015 #4

Paladin

(28,246 posts)
3. We need all the details of this bizarre incident.
Sat Aug 15, 2015, 12:25 PM
Aug 2015

It needs to be affixed to young George P.'s ass and allowed to follow him around for the rest of his political life.

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