Bush brother Neil marries in Houston

[Cocoa]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2437551

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Presidential brother Neil Bush -- putting aside remnants of a scandalous divorce, paternity questions and a scorned ex-wife -- married Maria Andrews Saturday night in the Memorial-area mansion of Rania and Jamal Daniel, longtime Bush family friends.
Close to 150 guests joined the newlyweds after a small family ceremony that included former President George Bush and Barbara Bush, parents of the groom. President George W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush did not attend.

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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. That didn't take long....

Jan 27, 2004
Sharon Bush has accused Neil of fathering a child with Maria Andrews, a former volunteer for former first lady Barbara Bush whom he now plans to marry.Andrews' ex-husband has filed a defamation suit, and DNA testing has been requested. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)

What class these Bushies have.

Another: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2380117

A Houston judge ordered DNA testing Friday to determine whether President Bush's brother Neil Bush fathered a child with another woman while he was married to Sharon Bush.

Sharon Bush requested the tests to defend herself against a defamation lawsuit stemming from the tangled relationship between the Bushes and another Houston couple, Robert and Maria Andrews.

During the Bushes' contentious divorce, which became final in April, Sharon Bush testified she heard rumors that her husband had an affair with Maria Andrews and is the father of her 3-year-old son, Thomas Alexander Andrews.

The Andrewses ended their 14-year marriage in 2002. Robert Andrews sued Sharon Bush for defamation in September, saying he is the boy's father. Andrews demanded at least $850,000 in damages -- the amount Sharon Bush paid to buy the Memorial-area home in which she had lived with Neil Bush.

In November, Sharon Bush asked state District Judge Randy Wilson, who is presiding over the defamation suit, to order Neil Bush, Robert Andrews and Thomas Andrews to undergo blood tests to determine paternity. If Neil Bush is found to be the father, Robert Andrews would no longer have a legal basis for his defamation suit.

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[RC]

4. Ahhh, Family Values.

What would we do without them.

[The_Gopher]

28. Prez.Bush issues statement on Neil's wedding (Satire)

"I wish to congratulamatize my little brother Neil on his recent wedding. He is proof that marriage is an institution, an institution that, uh, we must preserve and defend against activist judges, and we wish him well. Cuz ya see, this here is Neil's second marriage. His first one ended in divorce, and that's why, uh, we need to enact a Constitutional amendment protecting marriage. Our intelligence, the same intelligence by the way that the UN and my predecessor had, our intelligence services tell us that it was the ho-mo-sex-uals that sent those Oriental hookers to Neil's hotel room. They don't understand that marriage is between one man and one woman. And neither did Neil....heh heh, I'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your waiters.
Seriously folks, you see, that's also why we need to make my tax cuts permanent. Because even though Neil didn't pay those hookers, he had more money in his pocket because of the tax cuts. And he probably gave those young girls a generous tip for their services, and that probably created a job somewhere. And that's making our economy stronger. So, here's to you, Neil and, uh, Neil's wife. We know you didn't father that baby, little brother. Oh, and by the way, 9/11, 9/11, terror, tax cuts, terror."

[private_ryan]

2. again?

I knew he was a loser but...?

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Any teenage Oriental hookers in the bridal party?

I just had to ask!

[Darth_Kitten]

8. Who caught the bouquet?

;) :evilgrin: Did the saintly bride wear white?

[anarchy1999]

5. Let us only hope that Neil brings down Dubya.

All the facts are there.

See Kevin Phillips.

I want my state back from these mafiaso's and I want my country back, just to some small degree. I want the Bush family thrown out. Exciled to a remote island, no contact ever again with any banking or corporate entities. EXCILE is actually too good for them. I'll accept it though, just to be rid of them all. The KennyBoy's, the Cheney's, The NeoCons, pleae God, let us just make them go away.

I think that we humans are bigger than the "Armageddon" "they" want.

I know we are.

[Vickers]

6. I hope his herpes isn't active on his honeymoon

That would be a real drag.

I guess Georgie was too busy trying to be tall around Vicente Fox to attend.

[leesa]

7. Who would marry THAT slime bucket?

That ought to last about 3 and a half months

[Darth_Kitten]

9. To answer your question.......

a dim-witted woman with questionable morals and absolutely no character. :D

[Beaker]

23. that was my exact first thought...

maybe she thinks she's on a 'reality' tv show or something.

[PartyPooper]

29. Ann Coulter probably would! Yes, most definitely, she would marry him!

Slime for the bucket. "Mrs. bucket, I presume."

:evilgrin:

[T Bone]

32. she is probably knocked up

by Neil, my guess.

[PartyPooper]

33. Oh, T Bone, that is SO from the 1960's.

I mean, do they still use that expression anymore? Does anybody these days even know what it means?

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[LiberalFighter]

10. This the same guy that contracted herpes in Thai?

While married to his first wife?
Going thousands of miles for the prostitutes in Thai?
What was it about the prositutes that he liked? Their age? Hasn't the current administration been cracking down on under-age sex?

What was his new wife told about the herpes? Was she told that he was cured? Was she told that she was safe? Or was it too late by the time she found out?

Does his new wife like her her husband having a taste of Thai women/girls?

[Cooley Hurd]

11. The new Mrs Bush is the luckiest girl in the world!!!!

Besides having a husband who is publicly known to be a scumbag whoremonger with herpes, she gets to spend Christmas with these lovely people...


Hope she's stocked up on valium...

[LiberalFighter]

17. I would get sick if I had to spend the holidays with those creeps

[chasqui]

30. Gah! American Royalty

They need to get a pie in their faces.

[Bridget Burke]

12. His oldest daughter avoided the event as well....

"Standing with their father for the nuptials were Pierce, 17, and Ashley, 14. His eldest daughter, model and Princeton University student Lauren, did not attend."

Could Lauren not afford a plane ticket? She appears to share with her cousins Barbara & Jenna a fondness for fashion & parties--and an aversion to their fathers. They have SOME good taste.

[chelsea0011]

13. He opened a brothel door and walked into a wedding.

:+ :+

Remember the good ole days with the Democratic "clown brothers" of Carter and Clinton. The press loved to denigrate them. But Neil has it all over them. A crook and an immoral punk. But the press is silent. Oh, to be a Bush.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Belated DU welcome, Feeny2! Well said.

We have the best press money can buy here in America... And the Bushites have a lot of money

[chelsea0011]

16. Thanks for the welcome

nt

[kskiska]

15. And they became engaged at a French chateau

Actually, they'd been living in France, eating freedom fries and drinking California wine, I presume. The next news will be the results of the paternity test. Neil is the gift that keeps on giving.

[Toucano]

18. Sanctity of marriage poster boy!

You keep defending that institution, Neil.

[Serendipity36]

25. Marriage ought to be a communal priority

Love should be shared by all members of society. Marriage should not selfishly be limited to one person. It should be a blessing that the whole communal tribe shares.

Love, peace, and communal prosperity must be cherished at all costs.

Peace

[bushisanidiot]

19. The Bushies Don't Attend Eachother's Weddings or Court Appearances

what a lovely, "close knit" family.

[JPZenger]

20. Neil Bush's Savings & Loan Scandal

The following is from http://www.campaignwatch.org/more1.htm#neil, which was based upon 1992 Los Angeles Times articles:

NEIL BUSH. In 1990, federal regulators filed a $200-million lawsuit against Neil Bush and other officers of the Silverado Banking, accusing them of “gross negligence” contributing to its $1 billion collapse. “Our conclusion is that Silverado was the victim of sophisticated schemes and abuses by insiders and of gross negligence by its directors and outside professionals,” FDIC Senior Deputy General Counsel Douglas Jones said in a statement.

Bush was reprimanded by the Office of Thrift Supervision for “multiple conflicts of interest” as a paid director of the S&L, including his approval of $132 million in loans from Silverado to two business partners, Bill Walters and Kenneth Good. Bush, in turn, had received $550,000 in salaries from a company funded by Walters and Good plus a $100,000 loan from Good that was subsequently forgiven. Walters and Good looted an estimated $330 million from Silverado; one Silverado director had shared instructions on how to establish family trusts to protect such secreted funds from repossession by the government.

A top federal regulator testified to Congress that Washington officials postponed Silverado’s shutdown from October to December 1988, after George Bush’s presidential campaign was successfully culminated. The director of the Office of Thrift Supervision asked the Treasury Department to investigate whether political considerations caused the delay, but no such probe was conducted. Neil got off paying only $50,000 in a settlement of the $200 million federal suit against him other Silverado directors. He didn’t have to worry about his $250,000 legal bill, as Thomas Ashley, a friend of George Bush senior and the head of a banking association that was lobbying the federal government for bank deregulation, formed a legal defense fund to pay the bills.

[Ilsa]

21. Not to mention the SBA loan...

a gift of taxpayer dollars directly into Neil's bottomless pockets.

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. Nope, they don't

So much for "Families First" and good ol' Bush's pseudo-Christian ethics.

[suegeo]

22. Advice to Maria on honeymoon

If someone comes a knocking on your hotel room door, don't you answer it or let your new groom answer it either!

[peterh]

24. Why? For all we know, Maria…

May harbor some real kinky desires….I mean, she married Neil….after that, everything else could be considered normal...}(

[truthisfreedom]

38. speaking of... does maria have herpes already?

we know neil has it.

[PartyPooper]

27. I wonder if there was a pre-nuptial agreement as a part of the deal?

Things got messy before and after Sharon divorced Neil. It was reported that she even wanted to write a "tell-all" book. Of course, the Bu$hies could never handle that. So, Sharon was silenced...and, the book never materialised.

Even the Queen of England doesn't wield this much power and control over her own family (and others) to keep "family secrets" out of the press and "kiss and tell" books. But, the Bushies certainly do. Do they ever!

[daleo]

31. At least Neil will be supporting his son now

Which is how the right wing will spin it.

[FredScuttle]

34. Musta been one hell of a bachelor party...

I'm guessing the theme was "Flower Drum Song"

[Layman]

35. More from CBS News 1/26/04

This is round two in the headlines for Neil Bush, who was among those sued in the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s, a case in which he denied any wrongdoing and was never indicted. (Photo: AP)



Jimmy Carter's brother, Billy, accepted money from Libya. Bill Clinton's brother, Roger, had a cocaine conviction. Nixon's brother, Donald, took $205,000 from Howard Hughes, hoping to open a chain selling Nixonburgers.



(AP) In the annals of embarrassing presidential relatives, Neil Bush is no Billy Carter or Roger Clinton.

But his messy divorce has produced some eye-opening disclosures.

Among them: He had sex with women who showed up uninvited at his hotel rooms in Asia; he had an affair and may have fathered a child out of wedlock; and he stands to make millions from businesses in which he has little expertise - including a computer-chip company managed in part by the son of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin.

It seems certain opportunities tend to present themselves when your name is Neil Bush.

For his part, Bush defended the fees he has received for consulting jobs. But he gave little insight into whether the women who offered him sex in Hong Kong and Taiwan were perhaps paid by mysterious benefactors.

In a deposition taken last March and reviewed by The Associated Press, Bush told the attorney for his wife of 23 years, Sharon, that the women did not ask him for money and he did not pay them anything.

Asked how he knew what to do when he opened his door and saw a woman standing there, the 48-year-old Bush replied: "Whatever happened, happened."

"It's a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her," said the attorney, Marshall Davis Brown.

"It was very unusual," Bush replied.

Sharon Bush also accused Neil of fathering a child with the woman he now plans to marry. The woman's ex-husband has filed a defamation lawsuit, and DNA testing has been requested.

The titillating details have made barely a splash in Texas, where loyalty to the president runs deep. University of Texas government professor Bruce Buchanan said he doubts Neil Bush's shenanigans will become political fodder in the 2004 election.

"There are lots of examples of presidents with troubled siblings and it never seemed to have that much of an impact," he said.

Jimmy Carter's beer-swilling brother, Billy, wrote a book called "Redneck Power" and accepted money from the government of Libya. Bill Clinton's half-brother, Roger, was jailed for a year for dealing cocaine. Richard Nixon's kid brother Donald took $205,000 from Howard Hughes in the hopes of opening a fast-food chain selling Nixonburgers.

It is not the first time Neil Bush has caused his family some trouble. At the end of his father's presidency, Neil was among a group of defendants who agreed to pay $49.5 million to settle a negligence lawsuit over the $1 billion collapse of the savings and loan he directed in Colorado.

Bush denied wrongdoing and was not charged in the grand jury investigation, but the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision found Bush's conduct "involved significant conflicts of interest and constituted multiple breaches" of his fiduciary duties.

Bush has gone on to reap profits from other ventures. In the deposition, he said he hoped to receive an estimated $2 million for acting as a consultant to Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., co-founded by Jiang Zemin's eldest son.

"Now, you have absolutely no educational background in semiconductors, do you Mr. Bush?" Brown asked.

"That's correct," said Bush, who holds an MBA from Tulane University.

Bush recently told the AP he has "not received one penny of compensation" from Grace Semiconductor because he never did the consulting. He did not respond to a request for comment on his divorce proceedings.

Bush has focused most of his energy on Ignite Inc., an Austin-based educational software startup. So far, he has raised $23 million from investors, including Winston Wong, the other founder of Grace Semiconductor.

"Let's face the reality," Bush told the AP in 2002. "I probably have access to people who probably wouldn't meet with a development-stage company, but I feel I'm held to a higher standard."

Bush's tax returns, obtained by the AP, showed $357,000 in income from Ignite and at least $798,218 from three transactions involving the stock of Kopin Corp., a small U.S. high-tech company where he had previously been a consultant.

There is no evidence he has tried to enlist help from the president for any of his ventures. Bush spokesman Taylor Gross said the White House had no comment.

Still, said Rice University political science professor Bob Stein, "there is a family pattern here where the Bush sons - Jeb, Neil and George - have benefited tremendously by their connections through their father."

Currying favor with a relative of the president can "start to smell bad," said Steven Weiss, communications director for the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics.

[thebigidea]

36. WHAT!? He's "no Roger Clinton"?

A freakin' coke bust is worse than the S&L thing?

[truthisfreedom]

37. of course they did this as fast as possible. gotta clean up the mess

so the icky stuff doesn't seem so icky for the staged election.

[burrowowl]

39. Who f**king cares!

When there is Haiti, Iraq, Afghan women immolating themselves, Fascism/corporatism rampant, etc., etc. ....?

[Bridget Burke]

40. Just commenting on Bush Family Values

The current regime is trying to amend the Constitution for the sake of the "Sanctity of Marriage". Neil dropped his wife of 22 years for a new model, possibly fathering her youngest child while he & she were married to others. He's an admitted whoremonger. His business background includes major crookedness in Savings & Loans, for which he suffered nothing; we taxpayers are still paying for it. The trip to Thailand was another crooked business deal. Then there's his Ignite! educational software, being pushed on school districts who can't afford it because he's the President's brother. The Chronicle's links on this last story are in their archive; will try to find a live link.

His story is so rotten that his brothers George & Jeb avoided the wedding. It wasn't a scheduling matter--it's not as if he actually had to schedule time in a church.

You are right--this is definitely not the most important story of the day. It's just an opportunity to have fun--a short break from all the seriousness.

[opihimoimoi]

41. BTW, Thailand is known for young BOYS, not so much for young girls

Was Bush there for some action?

[Layman]

46. Respectfully Disagree...

... but this is all about hypocricy. They want to sell family values then they have to live by then. The larger point is how many votes did Gore lose due to Clinton's philanderings? How many political troglodites pulled the lever for the Repubs in 2000 just because of Bubba's cigar act? Do you really think many voters give a "f**king care about Haiti, Iraq, Afghan women immolating themselves, Fascism/corporatism rampant, etc., etc." ....? Tragically not in this country, not in our time and space. We're going to need every vote any which way we can get this year if we're going to pry their cold, dead hands off the reins of power. If exposing Neil's sexual peccadilloes will help do that, so be it.

[Bridget Burke]

42. "Bush family, friends toast happy couple"

The Houston Chronicle's sycophantic society reporter has all the details of the nuptials.

"Was it the generous pouring of Dom Perignon or the romantic music of the string quartet? Perhaps it was the frequent puppy-dog nuzzling of the newlyweds........

"The groom's 17-year-old son, Pierce, pulled at the heartstrings when he dedicated his toast 'to one of the finest examples of two people in love' who set 'a fine example for their kids to follow.'"

No photos at the link. But, yes, Mrs. Bush #2 appears to be quite a bit younger than Mrs. Bush #1. Those with weak stomachs might wish to pass this one by:

www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/2437805

[kskiska]

43. So now their kids include Pierce and Pace

and the elder Bushes are so in love with Maria.

When Neil informed Sharon he intended to divorce her, she called Bar, who told her, "This is between you and Neilsie. You should be calling your own mother.

[Bridget Burke]

45. Daddy Bush told her to "get a job"

When she asked how she was going to live on $1500 a month child support--until the two minor children are grown. She eventually got enough money to buy a (smallish) house. Texas is a community property state but poor Neil is broke.

Of course, anybody ought to be able to support themselves instead of depending on hubby (or wifey). But the previous deal for all Bush wives was: "Ignore the screwing around & you'll get to stay married." Being dumped for a newer model after 22 years was a big shock.

[kskiska]

44. Brothers George and Jeb Snub Neil Bush Wedding

Surprising NY Post headline

President Bush's scandal-scarred brother Neil married over the weekend - but in a stunning slap to his sibling, the commander-in-chief was a no-show.

Also snubbing the ceremony in Houston were Neil Bush's eldest daughter, stunning model Lauren Bush, and his other brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Neil tied the knot with Maria Andrews, a former volunteer for former First Lady Barbara Bush.

The move comes less than a year after a messy divorce between Neil and his wife of 23 years, Sharon, who accused him of fathering a child with Andrews.

The bust-up got even messier when Andrews' ex-husband, Robert, slapped Sharon with a lawsuit - claiming her accusation was defamatory because it charged he wasn't the real father.

more…
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/20141.htm

[yellowcanine]

47. When was the divorce finalized?

That seems really fast.