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Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2015 19:52:14 GMT
Jeb Bush, once a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, is slashing pay across the board for his struggling campaign as he attempts to regain traction just 100 days before the party’s first nominating contest.  The campaign is removing some senior staff from the payroll, parting ways with some consultants, and downsizing its Miami headquarters to save more than $1 million per month and cut payroll by 40 percent this week, according to Bush campaign officials who requested anonymity to speak about internal changes. Senior leadership positions remain unchanged. The campaign is also cutting back 45 percent of its budget, except for dollars earmarked for TV advertising and spending for voter contacts, such as phone calls and mailers. Some senior-level staff and consultants will continue to work with the campaign on a volunteer basis, while other junior-level consultants, primarily in finance but including other areas, will be let go, the officials said. The officials declined to say who would be removed from the payroll or provide an exact dollar figure for the savings. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2015 19:46:48 GMT
In the years to come, the two men formed an alliance that, at times, even looked like a politician’s odd version of friendship. Rubio, younger and gifted, provided Bush with help in the state legislature. Bush provided Rubio with donors, endorsements and — at one especially curious moment — a golden sword. By this week, however, the relationship itself had become a kind of weapon.
"Someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you,” Rubio told Bush during Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate, after Bush had criticized Rubio. The power of the comeback was in its familiarity — in Rubio’s pitying sense that he knew Bush well enough to know Bush had betrayed himself. That moment had been coming for months, as a presidential election put the old allies on a path to collide. They schmoozed the same donors. Courted the same pro-establishment voters. Each threw insults — veiled, then not veiled — at the other.
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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2015 19:38:27 GMT
Lindsey Graham's departure from the race set off a scramble among his rivals to try to pick up the support of the South Carolina senator and his backers, a valuable commodity given the state's first-in-the-South primary.  In the first few hours after Graham announced that he was bowing out, his one-time challengers quickly heaped praise on him. And behind the scenes, the various campaigns immediately started courting the ex-candidate's supporters. David H. Wilkins, who chaired Graham's finance team and is a former South Carolina House speaker, also said he talked with Bush but declined to say who he was endorsing yet. "I just don't feel comfortable doing it the same day that Lindsey announced that he's dropping out," Wilkins said, while not denying that he talked briefly with Bush on Monday. Wilkins added that he'd "had a conversation with Lindsey. I think he knows what I'm going to do." |
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Post by Admin on Dec 29, 2015 19:12:09 GMT
Jeb Bush, one of many presidential candidates who embraces the selfie (and the free social media advertising that comes with it), described the trend as a new fact of life, saying it's now "the 11th amendment of the Bill of Rights."
Asked about the effect of selfies on the campaign trail, Bush said Monday it's become a regular part of retail politicking and offered up some tips in a freewheeling answer about the photo-taking custom. "It is a requirement that you take one, and I do it with great joy in my heart," he said to applause at the Forum Club, an event held in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Feeling comfortable in his home state, Bush grew a little more candid. "I don't know, look, it wasn't that long ago that people wanted signatures on things, and now, forget that. 'I want my damn Selfie. I'm not leaving until I get it.' So we spend a lot of quality time doing that," he quipped with his signature sarcasm.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2016 19:36:52 GMT
 Sometimes, life is awkward, as demonstrated by this eerie video footage depicting Ted Cruz trying to be “affectionate” with his daughter — and being roundly rebuffed: Cruz's father, Rafael, was born in Cuba, emigrated and married an American from Delaware, Eleanor. While Rafael Cruz is today known for his religious beliefs and sometimes controversial statements, back then he was a successful oilman. The two were steeped in the Canadian oil industry of the early 1970s when she gave birth to a son, Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz.  |
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