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nrthshgrl
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Gee, the Bush family is so generous...
March 24, 2006, 4:12PM
Hurricane Donation Earmarked for Bush Firm
© 2006 The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Former first lady Barbara Bush gave relief money to a hurricane relief fund on the condition that it be spent to buy educational software from her son Neil's company.
The chief of staff of former President George H.W. Bush would not disclose the amount earmarked for purchases from Ignite Learning.
Since Barbara Bush's gift, the Ignite Learning program has been given to eight public schools with high numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, the Houston Chronicle reported.
"Mrs. Bush wanted to do something specifically for education and specifically for the thousands of students flooding into the Houston schools," the former President Bush's chief of staff Jean Becker said Thursday.
The money was donated to the Bush-Clinton Houston Hurricane Relief Fund, said Steve Maislin, president of the Greater Houston Community Foundation, which administers the fund. That fund has no connection to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, he said.
Barbara Bush chose to promote Ignite because she supports her son and has genuine enthusiasm for his company's program, Becker said.
Two years ago, the Houston school district board wrestled with conflict of interest concerns over the Ignite program. Neil Bush had helped raise $115,000 for the district's philanthropic fund from donors who insisted the money be spent on his company's software.
The district accepted the donations and used them to pay half the costs of new Ignite software, about $10,000 per school.
Currently, Houston public schools use 15 Ignite programs and the Houston area has 40 programs, said company president Ken Leonard.
Neil Bush founded the Austin-based company in 1999.
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LSP2005
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that is disgusting!!! donation - what a generous donation. 
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Re: Gee, the Bush family is so generous...
While I think attaching strings to a "charitable" donation is really crappy and defeats the purpose, I bet this happens A LOT among the extremely wealthy.
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| Posted 3/24/06 11:25 PM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Gee, the Bush family is so generous...
I agree it probably happens a lot (having worked for a non profit )
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Re: Gee, the Bush family is so generous...
Posted by nrthshgrl
I agree it probably happens a lot (having worked for a non profit )
I worked for non-profits too. It was very educational, and I'm a lot more wary about donating money now. Prefer to donate goods.
Did you see the story yesterday about how the American Red Cross is launching an internal investiagation into misappropriation of Hurricane Katrina funds? Very sad, but it sounds like the Red Cross made some poor decisions.
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heidla
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I used to think Barbara was the only decent one in the Bush clan. I guess they finally got to her too. 
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Shanti
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BaroqueMama
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Re: Gee, the Bush family is so generous...
Gee, if he wanted his company to get some more money, how about donating the programs from his software company to Houston schools. Then maybe the GOOD PR would come back to help him out when other schools saw he had generously donated on his own and would then buy from him.
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Tah-wee-ZAH
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Re: Gee, the Bush family is so generous...
Nothing about this family surprizes me anymore.
"Giving to charity"... whatever, you were only giving to yourselves 
Maybe my students are right... I might have to run for president (now that I meet the age requirement) so I can stop the Bush dynasty 
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Remember, this is a woman who thought that evacuees had it good living in the Superdome or Astrodome because they hadn't had much in the first place, pre-hurricane.
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Snozberry
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Posted by Tah-wee-ZAH
Maybe my students are right... I might have to run for president (now that I meet the age requirement) so I can stop the Bush dynasty
Please - you might be our only hope!!
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Posted by LSP2005
that is disgusting!!! donation - what a generous donation.
agreed
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I'd vote for you!
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