As Barbara Bush spent two hours championing her son's software company at a Houston middle school Thursday morning, a watchdog group questioned whether the former first lady should be allowed to channel a donation to Neil Bush's Ignite Learning company through Houston's Hurricane Katrina relief fund.
"It's strange that the former first lady would want to do this. If her son's having a rough time of it, couldn't she write him a check?" said Daniel Borochoff, founder of the American Institute of Philanthropy, a Chicago-based charity watchdog group. "Maybe she isn't aware that people could frown upon this."
Some critics said donations to a tax-deductible charitable fund shouldn't benefit the Bush family. Others questioned whether the Houston Independent School District violated district policy by allowing the company to host a promotional event on campus.
Oh, I'm sure there's a waiver in HIDS policy that allows members of the royal family to do whatever they feel like. Houston's their little fiefdom.
Jeebus. And we all used to laugh and laugh at the utter ridiculousness of Saddam Hussein's nepotism. Maybe we can appoint Kneel Bush the head of the US Olympic Committee or something. Maybe he's got pictures of Paul Tagliabue in a compromising position with a hapless ruminant. Imagine watching Kneel run the world's most profitable sports league into the ground. I bet the over/under on that would be three years tops.
[Bush] gave specific instructions that part of the money be sent to the Scottish Space School Foundation. She asked that group, in turn, to use the money to buy eight Ignite systems — valued at $3,800 each — for Harris County schools with large numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, according to Bush and fund officials.
"I said to George one day: 'Maybe it's sort of selfish of me, but I'd like to give something that I could see the results of,' " she told the crowd. "The thing I knew about was the [Curriculum On Wheels]."
She said she hopes the donation will encourage other companies and individuals to give both time and money to public schools strapped by Hurricane Katrina.
Bush said her son's company could not have afforded the donation on its own.
"They gave a lot. They couldn't give more," she said. "They'd love to give more, but they're a little, small company."
This is where it starts to get awful thick. Check out the list of "investors" in Kneel's "little, small company". Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky. Several Middle Eastern sheiks, which is par for the course in any Bush family venture. The usual family cronies and bootlickers.
And dear old Mom and Dad. So not only is Babs using a tax-deductible contribution on an epic national tragedy to pad her S&L thief son's pockets, but also her own. I don't know if that's legal, but it sure as hell ain't moral. Funny how the big fish in that pool of high-handed morality seem to keep on turning up stanky.
I dunno. I think instead of letting Kneel hump the legs of Sun Myung Moon and the UAE sheiks to start another taxpayer-fleecing scam, maybe he could start paying back all the money he "lost". Like that'll ever happen.
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