George Bush in court A distant relative and namesake

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A distant relative and namesake of US President George W. Bush faced the Maroochydore Magistrates Court on the Sunshine Coast yesterday on a charge of driving while disqualified. "We're starting with a big one today, aren't we?" Magistrate Cliff Taylor said when George Richard Wright Bush appeared in court.
Texas-born Bush, 21, was fined $550 and disqualified from driving for two years after he pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified.

Bush's solicitor Jim Ryan confirmed to the court his client was related to the world's most powerful man. But the third cousin of the US leader said later he had never met his famous relative and had "nothing to do with him".
The US president, whose father George Bush also served as US president from 1988-92, is no stranger to driving offences himself.

He was arrested and fined $150 for drink driving when aged 30 in 1976. His younger sister Dorothy and Australian tennis star John Newcombe also were in the car. The Sunshine Coast court was told the younger Bush, who works as a waiter, had been stopped by police in Maroochydore on November 3 and found to be driving while disqualified. He told police he had been returning his car home after lending it to a friend.

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[Canuckistanian]

1. My, these Bush's are as notorious as the Kennedy's, no?

The apple never falls far from the tree, eh?