Was there ever a scandal between Bush and a funeral home company?

[coloradodem2005]

During the 1990's?

[democrat in Tallahassee]

1. yes, as i remember he lied about it (UNDER OATH) as i

REMEMBER

[TomNickell]

2. Formaldegate..

Favors for a funeral home chain--very big--that got into trouble for poorly done embalming.

Seemed juicy at the time, but never went anywhere. Like a lot of Bush scandals.

[BabsSong]

3. This goes way back to the beginning of the DU

Yes, there is something regarding Bush and funeral companies in Texas. They began calling it Funeralgate. One would have to go all the way back in DU archives and get the story. I don't remember anymore what it was.

[LoZoccolo]

4. Don't mean to be too hard on you...

...but it was the first thing that came up on Google for "Bush" and "funeral home":

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/08/09/bush

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Yes, here are some links to the story

http://www.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Funeralgate

[Bluebear]

6. Bush Funeralgate manager found dead - "Suicided"?

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes%3Bread=16338

[Bluebear]

7. Figures, had to do with Bush pal desecrating bodies

"Here's a new chapter in an old scandal involving a Bush contributor and longtime family friend, Robert Waltrip. This time it's the desecration of dead bodies, and George W. Bush is directly linked to this scandal (as is current FEMA director Joe Allbaugh, GW's Chief of Staff while governor of Texas). According to Fox News, Waltrip's company, a cemetery company called Service Corporation International (also known as Dignity Memorial) was "recycling" graves, removing the bodies that were there originally and throwing them in the woods to use the space to house new customers at two Jewish cemeteries in Florida.

Bush's connection to the story is that he was subpoenaed in 1999 but refused to testify in a lawsuit by an ousted Texas state employee as to what his involvement was in halting an investigation into SCI's embalming practices, among other things.
This was a big Texas scandal for our president at the time, but as you will learn from this Washington Post article dated August 31, 1999, a Texas judge put everything right for then-governor Bush, just in time to campaign for the Presidency.


http://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm

[ashling]

8. The press need to exhume this story (pun intended)

Waltrip Funeral Home used to supply book covers for the Spring Branch School District (and others I assume) years ago.

[Gothmog]

9. Here is another link

http://www.bushfiles.com/bushfiles/contemptible.html