Looking for Jeb Bush $20 Katrina donation quote

[SoCalDemocrat]

I read early today that Jeb Bush was at a sporting event and quoted as offering $20 for the relief effort. That is twenty bucks. He asked for everyone else to do the same.

Now I cannot find the article. Can anyone else cite it?

[ComerPerro]

1. Wow. Twenty bucks.

What a guy

[SoCalDemocrat]

2. Jeb's racism

I really want to find the quote.

He raised $20 million for Florida after their hurricane.

But he offers $20 bucks for the poor black folks?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Miami - Florida State football game,

I think, on TV Monday night. I did not watch it. If I had been watching, I would have thrown a cinder block through the screen.

[KyndCulture]

7. or a couch... nt

[soup]

4. My chin just hit the floor.

He donated $20.00? Is this true?

[GeorgeBushytail]

5. I'm sure he'll deduct it from his taxes, too.

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Help build Camp Katrina on The Mall!

50,000 Katrina survivors camped on Bush's doorstep. In the seat of government and media. Demanding answers and change.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4629758

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2059147

[nolabels]

6. It was on the ABC monday night college football game

Btw, both them florida state teams look like the are in the PeeWee league compared to USC

[LeahD]

8. There wasn't a link in the original thread...just the statment by

the poster that he/she heard it on TV (at halftime or after the game?).

[marbuc]

9. In Jeb's defense

This could have been an addtional donation, on top of anything else he may have done. I went to a football game last weekend, and donated $10 to the buckets that were being passed around. A few days earlier I had contributed significantly more, via the Red Cross web site.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. good point,

come to think of it.

[SoCalDemocrat]

13. vs the $20 million he raised in Florida

When his state was hit by a hurricane, he raised $20 million dollars in a national funding drive.

In this case he donates $20 and asks others to do so as well?

It really felt like a slap in the face to me. I don't know how it could be interpreted any other way.

[BringEmOn]

10. I bet the jackass was doing the tomahawk chop, too

[meow2u3]

11. Can you spare it?

What are you, Jebbie, poor and black? :sarcasm:

[REP]

14. Found This (Broadcasting & Cable)

ABC, Florida State Pull Out Victory



By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/6/2005 11:40:00 AM

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Speaking of which, it was a game for names. Only a few weeks ago, the NCAA announced it was cracking down on Indian school names and discouraging broadcasters from using them. But a reversal in the case of the Seminoles--the tribe fully supports the team--and the devastation of Katrina meant that it was the Miami team name of Hurricanes that fell more jarringly on the ear.


Also somewhat jarring was the comment of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. When asked by Commentator Brent Musberger about the help Florida was supplying to the stricken Gulf Coast, he pointed out that Florida had braced for the storm, and having dodged it, was ready to offer assistance. But he also characterized the storm as "payback time," given that Florida had been hit by four hurricanes last year.