Shrub-bot (Tony GARZA) to Wed Mexico's Richest Woman

[UTUSN]

It pays to be a Shrub-bot. This dude started out as a lone Hispanic Repuke in deep South Texas, which has been Blue forever. By accident, he won as county judge, the reason being cronyism and corruption in the cabal of Dem incumbents that had exercised power too long. The statewide Repuke party skipped over the throw-the-rascals-out part and interpreted his LONE win as a sea change favoring Repukes and Shrub appointed him Secty of State (the Katherine HARRIS job), and they ran him for state Railroad Commissioner, wherein he became the first Hispanic to win statewide office in Texas. Then Shrub named him ambassador to Mexico. He is another nothing of a mind, who has found the eats-and-sweets on the B.F.E.E. gravy train to be YUMMY. What a coincidence that at 44 years of age he falls in LOVE with somebody who just HAPPENS to be dripping in brew bucks.

As for her, it must be true love, since she has had her pick of dates, including the Citigroup guy. Ain't love grand. Get a pre-nup, girl----the dude doesn't have a dime.

On edit: Correction, TX Secty of State is APPOINTED. GARZA was ELECTED to Railroad Commission (the oil and gas regulatory thing).

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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f1dc90ac-73f5-11d9-b705-00000e2511c8.html

Wedding bells
Published: February 1 2005 02:00 | Last updated: February 1 2005 02:00

Tony Garza, US ambassador to Mexico, is celebrating a diplomatic coup like few others - his engagement to Mexico's most eligible woman.


María Asunción Aramburuzabala, his future wife, inherited the Modelo brewery fortune (Mexico's biggest and maker of Corona). Since then she has taken big stakes in Televisa, the world's biggest Spanish-language broadcaster, and Telmex, the telecommunications behemoth. Forbes and Fortune reckon her wealth at about $1.5bn, making her Mexico's richest woman.

María Asunción has been divorced once, and her private life has long been the subject of intense interest in Mexican gossip columns. She started dating the ambassador after a lengthy relationship with Manuel Medina Mora, who runs Citigroup's operations in Latin America.

As for Garza, a long-term friend of George W. Bush and the grandchild of four Mexican grandparents, he should still be able to deal with claims that he's gone native. The announcement of the nuptials comes after his stickiest moment in more than two years in the job, when he infuriated Mexican officials, including the president, by going public with a letter complaining about the escalating drug wars in the northern frontier zone.

That affair simmered down after a very public breakfast with the Mexican foreign secretary on Saturday. Now it's time for an equally public engagement.

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[devilgrrl]

1. A marriage made to destroy America.

groan...

[SpiralHawk]

2. Modelo Especiale -- is mighty tasty

And always remember the sage counsel of our intrepid "teetotaler" in chief:


"By making the right choices, we can make the right choices for our future."
- George W. Bush

[Oreo]

3. Does this mean

we can't drink Coronas anymore? Guilt by association.

[UTUSN]

6. Neh. A Kind DUer

got me through a boycott panic when a global congom bought the Miller beer outfit. The DUer gave me permission to continue my Lite intake. Passing the kindness to you.

[Oreo]

7. That's ok....

I only have Corona occassionally so it'll be easy to drop.

Paulaner Heifer-Weissen is my beer of choice.

[trochanter8]

4. lucky man

i always wanted to marry rich.

[UTUSN]

5. And She's Lovely and Smart, Too! Here's Ms ARAMBURUZABALA!

She must be banking on the easy pickings of his future as Shrub courtier, First Lady of Texas, Mexico reclaiming Texas...

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http://www.worldtrademag.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/coverstory/BNPCoverStoryItem/0,3481,96744,00.html

.... ...Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala, the 39-year-old chairwoman of Mexico's leading brewer Grupo Modelo, with more than $3.5 billion in revenue. Tall, slim and with a fashion sense that tends towards tight sweaters, miniskirts and sky-high heels, Aramburuzabala hardly fits the image of the hard-driving woman executive. Dismiss her as a confection at your own peril, however. The girly exterior is little more than a cover for the shrewd business mind that lies beneath. ....

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/chitribts/20050201/ts_chicagotrib/inmexicoanengagementwithatwist

.... ...Tony Garza, 43, a longtime friend and ally of President Bush (news - web sites) who is often mentioned as a possible future candidate for Texas governor. ....

It's going to be a real power couple. She's very rich and he's very ambitious politically," said Rafael Fernandez de Castro, editor of the Spanish-language edition of Foreign Affairs magazine. ....

In the United States, Garza has been at odds with anti-immigration activists who oppose his backing of President Bush's proposal to adopt an expanded guest-worker program that would make it easier for Mexican workers to enter the U.S.


Embassy spokesman James Dickmeyer said Garza had no plans to alter his term as ambassador. A grandson of Mexican immigrants and the son of a Brownsville gas station owner, Garza served as Texas secretary of state under Bush and was named to the ambassador post in November 2002. ....

"I'm stepping on welcome mats marked `Men only,'" Aramburuzabala told The Wall Street Journal in 2001. "It's important to me not to feel like a useless woman who inherited money and sits on a couch eating popcorn and watching movies." ....

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002166573_cerveza01.html

.... Guadalupe Loaeza, a Mexico City columnist, described Aramburuzabala as a "very open woman, very educated, very congenial, very cosmopolitan." ....

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[Cocoa]

8. I liked him in "Taxi"

but "Who's the Boss" was lame.

[UTUSN]

9. LOL. But Apparently TX Repuke Secretaries of State

have conflicting views, practices, and allegiances vis a vis their TX Repuke governors.

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http://www.opednews.com/thoreau022704_texas_governor.htm

.... Meanwhile, a blog written by Wick Allison, publisher/editor of D Magazine, a mainstream city magazine, mentioned that Geoff Connor, Perry's secretary of state and alleged playmate, threatened to track down the source of the rumor and sue. Republicans have blamed a Democratic operative in Houston. ....

That would be an interesting lawsuit if Connor were to actually sue someone, wouldn't it? I doubt he would follow through since the gay stories would get further into the public record.

A politically-connected attorney in Texas told me he has known about Perry's gay side since the 1980s. And two district judges in Odessa told him that the rumor was always there when they served in the Legislature with Perry.

I don't care if he is gay or bi or whatever, what's appalling is the hypocrisy involved - Perry is going around condemning gays and signing laws against them in public while possibly doing something different in private. ....

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[KamaAina]

10. Isn't Jebbie's wife also a wealthy Mexican?

you remember, the one who "forgot" to declare 20 grand worth of jewelry to Customs...

Hmmmmmmm. :tinfoilhat:

[UTUSN]

11. Columba Is Wealthy? We Know Nothing about Her.

Except for the I-have-nothing-to-declare-------oh, that was WILDE. Yet many Hispanic potential voters give the B.F.E.E. "credit" for something-or-other regarding ethnicity. Beyond THAT, many of them think LAURA is the Mexican just because of her name: laaaowww-daaa.