Thread: Governor of Mexico meets with Jeb Bush in Florida

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Montiel meets with Jeb Bush in Florida

El Universal
Lunes 15 de agosto de 2005
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The outgoing governor of the State of Mexico and current presidential hopeful, Arturo Montiel, flew to Miami on Sunday to talk with Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on issues affecting bilateral relations.
Montiel, who represents the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and is currently challenging the party's president, Roberto Madrazo, for the 2006 presidential ticket, spoke with Bush on issues ranging from border security and immigration to trade policies.

The two governors voiced a common interest in strengthening the North American Free Trade Alliance, and discussed ways to increase trade and investment between the State of Mexico and Florida.

On security issues, Bush stressed it was important for the Mexican government to clamp down on drug-related violence that has been terrorizing its northern states.

Last week, the U.S. consulate in the border city of Nuevo Laredo reopened its doors after being shut down for one week due to the extreme violence plaguing the city.

Montiel has spent considerably in recent months to increase the visibility of his candidacy in the run-up to a nationwide PRI primary in November. As governor of Mexico's most-populous state, he has also been criticized for spending US3 million on 67 foreign trips during his tenure.

With absentee voting on the way for the July 2006 presidential elections, foreign trips are likely to be a feature of all candidates' campaigns.

With absentee voting on the way for the July 2006 presidential elections, foreign trips are likely to be a feature of all candidates' campaigns.

This is really sad that politicians from a foreign country have to come to the US to campaign because so many of their citizens are living here illegally.

The politicians should not be permitted to enter the US for political campaign purposes!!

Perhaps Montiel and Jeb Bush could run as a ticket for President of the North American Community in 2008 or 2012?

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Perhaps Montiel and Jeb Bush could run as a ticket for President of the North American Community in 2008 or 2012?

W

Maybe it could be a Farther, son thing. Since Jebs son George P. Bush, made it in Time Magazine.

Speaking of brothers....I heard something strange on talk radio in Florida today.

In Florida we have the FCAT achievement tests. Jeb Bush started this. It is VERY controversial as parents and teachers are dead set against them. The students spend all year preparing for them and we even started school Aug 8th this year so the students could prepare ahead for them, which are given in February.

Now here's the clincher and what they said. "They" want to spend $30.00 per student for a new educational software to "help" the students prepare. On the radio they said there is some new controversy regarding Neil Bush owning or being president or something of the company which will produce the software for the Florida students. ????? They said his company is based in Texas. I don't know anymore than that, it is the first I've heard of this. Hmmm.

I heard this on the Kelly Mitchell show on 850AM WFTL at 2:10P PM. She refrained from going into details. But, doesn't is sound a bit cozy?

Well keep in mind some of the big boys have been buying their cocaine from these illegal alien smugglers from way back in the 80's. When you buy cocaine in large quantities, your not dealing with the street dealer.

A lot of these gangs and illegal alien supply lines appear to be very similiar to the cocaine transporters that were bringing in drugs to pay for weapons for the Contras back in the 80's after Congress passed the Bolin amendment and cut off taxpayer funding.

The public freaked out when they found out taxdollars were being used to print CIA handbooks that explained the best way to torture people for information. One passage explained how you could remove the victims eyes from their sockets so they would dangle and be able to still see your next step on gentitle mutilation.

Good old Uncle Sam and Joe Q American was paying for that. The Bolin amend cut off funding and then wow we have new drug supply lines flooding America with cocaine.

Then one day a plane crash with cocaine residue in the back started the Iran Contra scandal. Oliver North and Manuel Noriega all said the same thing. "Don't mess with me. I know a secret!"

There are other family traditons that are bigger on the scale than making moonshine. Remember Air America? The Golden Triangle? Operation Green Ice?

W

LegalUSCitizen, I did some checking and it appears the story about Neil Bush is true. Found an article but it is an older story since it ran about 3 years ago.

http://www.texnews.com/1998/2002/texas/ ... t1027.html

Sunday, October 27, 2002

Bush brother trying to sell FCAT software to Florida schools

By the Associated Press


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A software company run by Neil Bush, a younger brother of Gov. Jeb Bush, hopes to sell a program to Florida schools that students would use to prepare for the test that is key to the governor's education policy.

Austin, Texas-based Ignite Inc. makes software being used in a pilot program at an Orlando-area middle school to help students prepare for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, which the governor has championed as a yardstick for school performance.

Ocoee Middle School, which has received millions of dollars in state grants to study ways of lowering costs, is using the software for free. But a company spokeswoman said Saturday that Ignite soon hopes to sell its early American history course to other Florida schools, at a cost of $30-a-year per-student.

Ignite spokeswoman Louise Thacker denied the company had an unfair advantage because its founder and CEO, Neil Bush, is a brother of Florida's governor.

A spokeswoman for the state Department of Education said Friday that Ignite officials had not approached the state about its product. Mike Eason, formerly the top technology official for the department, is a member of an Ignite advisory board.

Katie Muniz, a spokeswoman for Gov. Bush, said the governor has never talked with his brother about the business.

Gov. Bush's use of the FCAT complies with a law supported by another brother -- President George W. Bush. The president's "Leave No Child Behind" law forces states to use testing as a measuring stick for schools.

Gov. Bush's education agenda has been criticized by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill McBride, who has attacked the governor for his reliance on the FCAT to grade schools.

Ryan Banfill, spokesman for the state Democratic Party, called Ignite's marketing campaign in the state problematic, saying it creates a strange appearance.

"I don't know where the money's going to come from for this," Banfill said. "These districts are hard pressed to pay for chalk, let alone to put money in the pocket of the Bush family."

Neil Bush gained notoriety as director of the Silverado Savings & Loan in Colorado, whose failure cost taxpayers $1 billion and led to a grand jury investigation during the term of his father, President George H.W. Bush. Neil Bush was never charged.

Oh my gosh. WAKE UP AMERICA

For fun I did a little more digging on Neil Bush's company and came up with a few more articles.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stori ... tory1.html

From the February 16, 2001 print edition
Neil Bush ignites education software firm
Amanda Bronstad
Austin Business Journal Staff
George W. Bush may have left Austin amid much fanfare, but the president's younger brother quietly is heading a local startup that's raising at least $10 million in second-round funding.

Neil Bush's Ignite! Inc., which develops educational software, is hoping to raise a second round in the near future, says Pamela Richardson, chief operating and strategic officer for Ignite! The company raised more than $5 million in first-round funding last year, she says.

Richardson declined to name previous private investors, but documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicate the company raised $7.1 million from 53 investors and is seeking $10 million in additional funding, according to online newsletter Private Equity Week, which covers private equity filings with SEC.

Ignite!, whose offices are at 11044 Research Blvd. in Northwest Austin, is developing multimedia software that lets students in kindergarten through 12th grade learn standardized curricula based on individual learning methods.

"I've been working with him [Neil] for two years, and he's focused on education," Richardson says. "Neil had some struggles with his own educational experience growing up, which made him have a passion for making a difference. And his mother has had a focus on literacy and education."

His mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, formed the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy in 1990. The foundation supports family literacy programs.

Initially targeting middle schools, Ignite!'s Adaptive Learning Engine software -- which it obtained in November by acquiring Austin Technology Incubator company Adaptive Learning Technologies Inc. -- is designed to help teachers and administrators teach in a more fun, effective way, Richardson says.

At 30 employees, the 2-year-old company still is forming a board of directors. It recently brought on Kevin Moran as chief technology officer. Moran is founder and former chief technology officer of Baleo Inc., a venture-backed Austin startup that folded late last year.

So far, Ignite! doesn't have any customers or partnerships.

Neil Bush perhaps is best known for his membership on the board of directors of the failed Denver-based Silverado Savings & Loan Association. Bush was a director of the S&L when it collapsed in 1988. The S&L's failure cost taxpayers $1.3 billion, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Bush and other officers of Silverado were sued in 1990 by the Resolution Trust Corp. The suit was settled in mid-1991 for $26.5 million, according to the FDIC.

More recently, Bush ran Houston-based Interlink Management Corp., a venture capital firm that raised and invested $60 million in high tech and biotech startups. Bush, who lives in Houston, was at Interlink from 1994 to 1999.

Still in early stages, Ignite! is developing the first version of its software for release this spring or summer, Richardson says. The company plans to be testing its software in 10 to 15 schools by this fall, she says.

"We have alternative paths for learning that material -- by exploring music interactively, for example," Richardson says. "Or I may want to read or go through mathematical logical exercises. This is a browser-based hosted application that is high bandwidth-delivered for K-12 schools."

Compared with most educational software firms, Ignite! is solely Web-based and tracks individualized learning styles more effectively, says Melinda George, director of the education division of the Software and Information Industry Association in Washington, D.C. Ignite! is a member of the association.

Ignite! also targets kids with learning disabilities, ranging from dyslexia to being unable to learn by taking notes, George says.

"They really are doing something that's different," George says of Ignite! "They're using the Web and pushing individualized learning. Their individualized learning identifies the learning style of the student. What comes up on my screen will be different from what comes up on another student's screen."




http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stori ... tory3.html

From the October 25, 2002 print edition
Ignite turns to Mexican company
Stacey Higginbotham
Austin Business Journal Staff
Neil Bush's e-learning company has laid off 42 percent of its workforce as it prepares to sign a $15 million deal to outsource software production to a Mexican telecommunications giant.

Austin-based Ignite Inc. plans to seal the deal â€â€

With absentee voting on the way for the July 2006 presidential elections, foreign trips are likely to be a feature of all candidates' campaigns.

IF our government intends to allow this, it is blatantly "unconstitutional"

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble

the right to assemble is reserved to the Citizens and the States and Mexican Presidential candidates have no "right" to hold campaign rallies in the United States and if Congress allows it, they are adhering to our enemies


but if ICE shows up at a "campaign" rally, maybe they can haul everybody off to be deported