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Sunday, February 3, 2013

The Bush Foundation’s “How Dare You” Defense on SendHub Emails | Scathing Purple Musings

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The Bush Foundation’s “How Dare You” Defense on SendHub Emails

I missed revelations involving the emails that Bush Foundation CEO, Patricia Levesque’s made on behalf of SendHub, a tech firm that former governor Jeb Bush invested in during 2012. My initial focus was on Florida’s emails and missed In the Public Interests summation on the matter. I will be recognizing that a correction is necessary in this post. USF professor Sherman Dorn provides details:
The question of a personal conflict of interest is both more serious and simpler to resolve. In the Public Interest is strongly suggesting that Jeb Bush personally benefitted by FEE’s pushing the use of SendHub, a tech firm in which Bush became a visible investor in late 2012. One of SendHub’s founders is a former Bush aide, but note that “late 2012″ date (October, I think)? At least one of the emails from Patricia Levesque mentioning SendHub is from February 2012. I could not find the other emails mentioning SendHub on the website with the documents, but if the