Thursday, January 22, 2015

Daily Mail: The extraordinary story of Columba Bush as her husband bids to make her the first Hispanic first lady [When the Bush family decides to go Hispanic, it is to the max. --tma]


EXCLUSIVE: An illegal immigrant, warring parents and a bitter rift with the father she did not see for 40 years – the extraordinary story of Columba Bush as her husband bids to make her the first Hispanic first lady

Historic bid: Jeb Bush is the biggest Republican name to say he is seriously considering a bid for the White House – which would make him potentially the third Bush president. Columba, his wife of 41 years, would become the first Latino first lady and the second foreign-born presidential spouse. John Quincy Adam's wife was born in London



  • Columba Bush was born and raised in Leon, 250 miles outside Mexico City, where she met Jeb Bush and married him when she was 20

  • Jeb is a Republicans presidential front-runner for 2016; if he wins she would be first Hispanic first lady and only the second born outside the US

  • Daily Mail Online can reveal her father was born to a peasant family and entered America illegally to work 

  • He had a stormy marriage to her mother and the couple divorced – but Columba's account differs from his and his relatives' in Mexico today

  • Columba was estranged from her father after her marriage and he twice reached out to the Bush family, including her brother-in-law, for contact 

  • He went to his grave without meeting his three grandchildren and 'followed his daughter's life through newspaper clippings' ...

  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2918970/An-illegal-immigrant-warring-parents-bitter-rift-father-did-not-40-years-extraordinary-story-Columba-Bush-husband-bids-make-Hispanic-lady.html