How Jeb Bush blocked Trump’s push for casino gambling in Florida

[TexasTowelie]

Jeb Bush said during last week’s Republican presidential debate that Donald Trump wanted casino gambling in Florida. Donald Trump said “I did not.”

“I promise, if I wanted it, I would have gotten it,” Trump told Bush during the exchange. Bush replied, “No way, man.”

But the fact is, Trump wanted it and didn’t get it under the Bush administration, despite donating money to the state Republican Party and Bush.

“The bottom line is Donald Trump was interested in casino gambling in Florida, I can tell you that for a fact,” said former Florida House Speaker John Thrasher, who said he met with Trump twice and talked about the issue, once in New York and once in Trump’s Palm Beach Mar-A-Lago resort. Thrasher, now president of Florida State University, said during both meetings Trump pushed for Florida to sign a compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida to allow casino gambling.

Read more: http://www.mystatesman.com/ap/news/national-govt-politics/how-jeb-bush-blocked-trumps-push-for-casino-gambli/nnjf4/

[Thinkingabout]

1. Bush pushed his views on the Terry Schiavo but cooler heads prevailed. Jeb needs a better game.