Pierce Bush, late President George H.W. Bush’s
grandson, loses Texas Congressional bid
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
3/4/2020 2:50:09 AM
Republican Pierce Bush, a grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, failed to advance out of Tuesday’s primary in his bid for a Houston congressional seat, becoming the first member of his family to lose a race in Texas in more than 40 years.
Aside from the recognition of coming from America’s most enduring Republican dynasty, Bush 34, was endorsed by the outgoing GOP incumbent, Rep. Pete Olson and raised more money than many of the other 14 candidates in the field.
Troy Nehls and Kathaleen Wall, staunch defenders of President Donald Trump, advanced instead to the runoff.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Imright 3/4/2020 3:13:33 AM (No. 336283)
More information regarding this race: https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-22nd-congressional-district-primaries-live-results-vote-counts-2020-3
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How will we go on as a people? No Bush or Clinton to sully our daily lives?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher 3/4/2020 4:26:20 AM (No. 336295)
Looks like Texas is tired of the Bushes, too.
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President Trump May have some very long coat tails this year...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/4/2020 6:20:35 AM (No. 336326)
While I am sure he is a very nice young man, I no longer associate the name "Bush" with anything conservative.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/4/2020 6:35:44 AM (No. 336338)
The Bush name brand has gone stale.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Daisymay 3/4/2020 7:06:02 AM (No. 336363)
Either get on the Trump Train, or you will be left behind. This is a perfect example! The Bush family has made no secret of their hatred for all things Trump and they now see you reap what you sow!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hank Reardon 3/4/2020 7:17:54 AM (No. 336371)
... or, as Jesse Jackson famously once said, "Stay out the Bushes!"
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/4/2020 7:21:51 AM (No. 336372)
The Bushies cooked their goose when HW and W uttered the new world order words.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
fysammy 3/4/2020 7:35:00 AM (No. 336388)
The Bush family is, and always has been, members in good standing of the Deep State.
You can thank W (and Karl Rove) for the Obama nightmare.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
swarfer 3/4/2020 8:14:21 AM (No. 336428)
The Republican Party transformation moves forward. The repudiation of the Bushes, Jeb and Pierce whatever their actual political stance sends a message that the past is not going to be repeated. Anyone or anything with even the scent of a RINO has no future in the Republican Party.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
oilcounter 3/4/2020 8:15:18 AM (No. 336429)
I live in TX Congressional district 22. To me and everyone i know; Pierce Bush is an interloper and not worthy of anyone's vote. I am a true conservative and not a partisan huckster. Dist 22 is full of like minded individuals such as myself; we see right through this sham candidate (there are many others like Pierce in this race)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 3/4/2020 8:25:46 AM (No. 336441)
Despite the fact that Daddy Neil was shilling for him in the library parking lot where I voted last night, I did not vote for this kid. Too young, too goofy. Inspired no confidence that he’s a leader or knows what he’s doing. Mannerisms too weirdly reminiscent of uncle W.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/4/2020 8:36:31 AM (No. 336456)
We wondered for eight years why GWB didn't open his mouth. It would have been better for the family's political prospects if he had kept it shut permanently.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 3/4/2020 8:45:06 AM (No. 336465)
Like other Texan Beto O'Rourke last week Pierce was skateboarding now running for a Congressional seat with what he thought was a 'big name' in Texas. Problem is Grandpa photo opted with the Clintons and the cat was out of the bag. RINO globalist need not apply.
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#s 13 and 14 offer insight. One big fact is that Nehls is a well-known commodity in Fort Bend County, has been Sheriff for the past eight years, and constable eight years before that, both elective offices. Wall is not likely to win the runoff, although she has the resources to give it a go. As far as Pierce Bush...soft-speaking like his grandfather, apparently afraid of developing any real contrast between himself or the large field on issues...with his getting in at the last minute with residency questions...not a recipe for success. I found his effort disappointing. (BTW: I was working in Fort Bend on my son's campaign for another office.)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 3/4/2020 9:16:47 AM (No. 336485)
When the Bush family became chums with the corrupt Clintons, I wrote off the whole lot of them. The Republican party needs a purge of the Bush family.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
figowitz 3/4/2020 9:30:23 AM (No. 336502)
Plus his cousin Geo P Bush has raised hackles in Texas messing with the Alamo. I'll NEVER vote for ANY Bush ever again. Never. "Stay out the Bushes!"
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
fayebeck 3/4/2020 9:37:29 AM (No. 336508)
Sad fall from CLASS to being reviled in just five or six years. I do remember those "classy" days.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Muguy 3/4/2020 9:40:03 AM (No. 336513)
No more family dynasties.
There was supposed to be two terms of JFK, two terms of RFK, and two terms of "Teddy"
Then Poppy Bush, W Bush, JEB, George P. and now Pierce
and of course Bubba, Hitlery, and Chelsea........
Let it be with Mr. Trump-- HE is who we voted for, not his children
(Ducking for cover from all the zealots)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bubby 3/4/2020 9:51:06 AM (No. 336526)
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/09/pierce-bush-congress-anti-trump-protest/ Protesting President Trump and praising illegal aliens isn't a winning strategy in Texas or anywhere else. The arrogance of Pierce Bush is that he didn't even live in TX-22 where I live. When GW Bush called Bill Clinton a "brother from another mother" that was proof that George W like his father was a euroweanie elitist! Good riddance to the Bush family in politics!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/4/2020 9:53:23 AM (No. 336529)
So what? George H. W. was not a great president. George W. was not terrific once he got past 9/11. Why would a shirttail grandson be expected to win? His father Neil was notable for only his part in the failure of a Texas bank or S&L, in which hs was found to be culpable.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
BluesClues 3/4/2020 10:18:11 AM (No. 336559)
Bush's brand is worthless. GW was a nice enough guy but with some major flaws politically. Global elites are out of favor because it's been exposed that they are antithetical to democracy. To get around this, Rove recruited the evangelicals but even they found that actions speak way louder than words. Rove's strategy would never work today. Now if only Massachusetts could stop voting for Kennedys (although at least they were right to stop sending Markey back).
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/4/2020 10:23:03 AM (No. 336564)
Is this Jeb's son? I don't recall what that one's name is. Sorry he lost, but not sorry that the Bush dynasty is going to the sidelines. We don't need any more Bush family in national politics.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/4/2020 10:34:24 AM (No. 336576)
The Bush Family are a longtime globalist banking related family. That became evident by the way G.W. Bush handled the Saudis who were in the USA during the Saudi terrorist perpetrated 9/11 attacks, when prominent Saudis in America were immediately allowed to load up on aircraft and return to Saudi Arabia before any comprehensive investigation of the 9/11 attacks was even initiated.
The Bushes were not brave President’s, while G.H.W. Bush had a distinguished Second World War record, he surrendered to the Democrats with the reversal of his “no new taxes” pledge to Republican voters, that cost him his re-election bid; and G.W. Bush when the going got tough in Iraq with American military members losing their lives everyday there, remained silent as far as defending both his personal and professional reputations against fraudulent Democrat attacks against him, and especially the US military, along with his entire military and political policy agenda in Iraq and at home for years, a deficiency in leadership that helped to bring about the Obama era. On top of that he started hobnobbing with the corrupt Clintons, and I have no problem making a wild assed guess that the Bushes voted for Hillary Clinton over President Trump in the 2016 election.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
zzzghy 3/4/2020 11:56:47 AM (No. 336657)
Names matter and they follow us forever. I often wonder what parents are thinking when they hang these double entendre names on their newborns.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 3/4/2020 12:02:43 PM (No. 336664)
Answer to #25. Jeb's son is Pee Bush, Secretary of Agriculture. We voters were given a choice between him and an admitted Democrat. We voted against the admitted Democrat.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 3/4/2020 12:57:09 PM (No. 336726)
Even in Texas they see that No More Bushes is a good plan.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Obviousity 3/4/2020 1:48:26 PM (No. 336778)
What did Ross Perot know?
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Why not a moratorium on Bushes in elected office for, say, the next 50 years?
For the Kennedys it would be the next 100 years.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
inspectorudy 3/4/2020 4:45:07 PM (No. 336922)
It looks like the voters wanted a tree instead of a Bush!
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