Uncle Bill "Bucky" Bush and dirty bucks

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There is another Uncle we don't here much about. We've seen Uncle Jonathan's lnvolvement with the Riggs terror Bank and Uncle Prescott Jr. from the 80's.

Now I present Uncle (fast buck) "Bucky".

http://www.bushnews.com/april2.htm

HOW JEB AND GEORGE MAKE A BUCKY BY PRIVATIZING GOVERNMENT
Buried in the Legislature's budget bill is a proposal by Gov. Jeb Bush to save $700,000 by privatizing elevator inspections. Officials at the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation told The St. Petersburg Times that private companies already do 87 percent of the state's inspections. So what's the catch? Turns out William ``Bucky'' Bush, the governor's uncle and a fundraiser for George W. Bush's presidential campaign, owns a 12.5 percent interest in National Elevator Inspection Services of St. Louis. Could that have anything to do with the governor's proposal? No, no, of course not. ``That whole line of thinking is very annoying and very insulting,'' says Bucky. But if it happens, he'll locate an office in the state and go after the business, he adds. Definitely a man headed to the top. -- more Miami Herald Editorial <http://www.miamiherald.com/content/today/opinion/editorials/digdocs/065392.htm>

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1. kick

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2. 'That whole line of thinking is very annoying and very insulting.'

They're all above the law. That's why they're the BFEE.

Bush's super fundraisers join the queue for favours

Paul Harris investigates the elite network that fills the electoral war chest of the Republicans

Sunday May 23, 2004
The Observer

The Sun shone on the plush grounds of the Ritz-Carlton Lodge in rolling Georgia countryside. But the resort's four championship golf courses were strangely empty for a pleasant spring weekend.

Instead, 300 of America's most powerful men and women sat in a windowless conference room to receive the thanks of their hero: President George Bush.

The 300 form part of an elite donor network that has turned Bush's campaign into the most powerful fundraising machine in US history. They are dubbed Pioneers (for rustling up $100,000) and Rangers (getting $200,000). But now, it was revealed to the gathering at the 'appreciation weekend', a new level of fundraiser was to be created.

SNIP...

The network is extremely 'clubby' and close-knit. Four main families are at its centre. First is the Bush clan itself. It boasts seven family members who have made at least Pioneer status, including Bush's sister Dorothy Bush Koch and his uncle, HT 'Bucky' Bush. Then comes Richard Egan, a Massachusetts millionaire, whose sons Chris and Michael have also made the grade. Joining them with three members each are the Fox family, who own the Harbour Group finance firm with major investments in China, and the Reynolds family of land developers. The April meeting was held on land owned by the Reynoldses.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1222721,00.html

Gee. Four families: Bush, Egan, Fox and Reynolds. There are more, but these make a nice start.

Those interested might want to get the article before it goes off their main page. One nice nasty lot of gangsters, these. The article says 20-percent of the Big Time donors are Wall Street types and 18-percent are lawyers and lobbyists. Nothing but the best for their Smirko.

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4. Republican tremendous firepower

Since 1998, Bush has raised at least $296 million (£175m) in campaign contributions. It is believed up to half of that huge sum has come from just 630 people. Last week Bush's 2004 re-election fund hit a record $200m, doubling the total set in 2000, and it is expected to top $250m. It gives the Republicans tremendous firepower.

Certainly the benefits of donating seem clear. A report by the group revealed that, out of 630 elite donors from 2000 and 2004, almost one quarter were given an appointment from the administration - including 24 ambassadorships and two cabinet positions. In 2002 more than $3.5 billion of federal contracts were given to 101 companies that between them boasted 123 Pioneers or Rangers. 'We believe this is only the tip of the iceberg, too. This is only the stuff that we have been able to find out about,' said Wheat.

The network is extremely 'clubby' and close-knit. Four main families are at its centre. First is the Bush clan itself. It boasts seven family members who have made at least Pioneer status, including Bush's sister Dorothy Bush Koch and his uncle, HT 'Bucky' Bush. Then comes Richard Egan, a Massachusetts millionaire, whose sons Chris and Michael have also made the grade. Joining them with three members each are the Fox family, who own the Harbour Group finance firm with major investments in China, and the Reynolds family of land developers. The April meeting was held on land owned by the Reynoldses.


A classic example is that of West Virginia coal baron James Harless, a Pioneer in 2000 and 2004, therefore contributing at least $200,000 to the Bush campaign. He saw his grandson appointed to a Department of Energy team looking at drawing up new policies. The Bush administration then reversed a campaign promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that bedevil the coal industry and eased environmental restrictions on opencast mining.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1222721,00.html

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7. The Bush Organized Crime Family knows no shame.

Pass the Loot's Pat Robertson took part of this picture:



The good people at Texans for Public Justice have Bucky's number pegged:

Bush Donor Profile

]William H. T. 'Bucky' Bush
Occupation: Chair
Employer: Bush-O’Donnell Co.
Home: St. Louis, MO

George W. Bush’s uncle William “Bucky” Bush is a banker who started at Hartford National Bank and Trust before becoming President and CEO of Boatmen’s National Bank of St. Louis. Bucky Bush co-founded venture capital firm Bush-O’Donnell in 1986. Bush-O’Donnell owned California-based National Automobile and Casualty Insurance Co., an insolvent insurer liquidated by California regulators in 2002. The firm also has major stakes in Laclede Chain Manufacturing, biotech venture fund Oakwood III and Build-A-Bear Workshop, which recalled a teddy bear in 2003 due to the choking hazards posed by its nose. Bucky Bush heads his nephew’s fundraising operations in Missouri, where Bush won 11 critical electoral votes in 2000 with just 51 percent of the vote. That same year, Bucky Bush joined the board of military contractor Engineered Support Systems, a major beneficiary of the war in Iraq that received more than $386 million in federal contracts in fiscal 2002. “Bucky” Bush sat on the board of the deluxe ocean liner company Intrav and received $405,000 for his shares in the company when it was purchased in 1999. RightCHOICE Managed Care, a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri subsidiary, named him to its board in 1997. He also sits on the boards of assembly-line maker DT Industries, Lord Abbett mutual funds and business-travel firm Maritz, Inc.

SOURCE:

http://www.tpj.org/docs/pioneers/pioneers_view.jsp?id=157

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3. Then dirty Uncle Bucky says that Dubya leads on "principle"

Maybe the dem folks in Missouri might want to know about this.

http://semissourian.com/story.html$rec=133649

Uncle of President Bush campaigns in Cape County



By Mark Bliss ~ Southeast Missourian

President Bush's uncle, seeking to garner farmers' support, visited a Gordonville farmer's tool shed Friday to campaign for his nephew's re-election.

"President Bush has led our country on principle," said St. Louis lawyer Bucky Bush, who chairs the president's re-election campaign in Missouri.

About 40 people, many of them farmers, turned out to hear Bucky Bush, GOP lawmakers and Missouri Farm Bureau Federation president Charlie Kruse of Dexter, Mo., note the formation of a Missouri farm and ranch leadership team. The team's aim is to build grass-roots backing for the president's re-election in the agricultural community. more

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6. I hope most all of us Missouri Dems

know that anything said by a bush is LIE, and is only told to gain power or money, or both! Sadly, we do have a bunch of gullible repigs here that would believe anything they say.

I really, really, really, really, really hope that MO goes for Kerry! Oh, what sweet justice that would be!

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9. The Bush `Warbucks' Family Cashes In

by Margie Burns

William H.T. (``Bucky") Bush, an uncle of George W. Bush, is on the Board of Directors of a company which will benefit substantially from war with Iraq, according to financial analysts.
The company, Engineered Support Systems, is based in St. Louis. William H.T. Bush was also a major Bush donor and campaign fund-raiser.

Astute business articles have boosted the company's stock this fall. As Russ Mitchell, writing in Smart Money, put it: ``War may not be healthy for children and other living things (not in the short run, anyway), but it's healthy for military stocks, right?

``It depends on what you mean by health. Consider Engineered Support Systems, which makes biological and chemical filtering and decontamination equipment, among other things.

``And Engineered Support's recently acquired Radian subsidiary, which designed security systems for the Pentagon, just won a $53 million Army contract. Analysts say the Radian division is poised for strong growth, not just for the military, but also for `homeland security' and corporations."

In 2000, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute listed Engineered Support Systems 83rd in the world's top 100 largest arms-producing companies.

more
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0114-07.htm

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5. Dorothy Buch Koch - WARNING :husband has ties to democrats

Bush’s kid sister, Dorothy Bush Koch raises money for local charities and for her family’s campaigns. She married Robert P. Koch at Camp David in ‘92.

Robert Koch is an ex-aide to then-Majority Leader Dick Gephardt and then-Democratic Whip Tony Coehlo, who until recently chaired Al Gore’s campaign. Koch is now an executive and lobbyist at the Wine Institute, the trade group of the California wine industry.

This lobby has promoted unfettered trade with China and lobbies to protect the millions of corporate-welfare tax dollars that it receives to market its products abroad. The Wine Institute appointed two of the Gallo brothers to its board in ’99.

The Gallo family, which produces one out of every three U.S. bottles of wine, knows something about lobbying. The Gallos got the so-called “Gallo Amendment” enacted in ’86 to allow them personally to dodge $104 million in inheritance taxes when they passed on the family fortune.

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http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ContributorsAndPaybacks/pioneer_profile.cfm?pioneer_ID=99

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8. Here's a "Cousin" thread.

Bush Organized Crime Family cousins, to boot.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1685326