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riversedge

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Fri Aug 14, 2015, 07:38 PM Aug 2015

Bush campaign lied about meeting with Black Lives Matter activists

I think his name is mud!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/14/1412130/-Bush-campaign-lied-about-meeting-with-Black-Lives-Matter-activists

Fri Aug 14, 2015 at 11:23 AM PDT
Bush campaign lied about meeting with Black Lives Matter activists





Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush listens to a question during an appearance at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs in Chicago, Illinois, February 18, 2015.   REUTERS/Jim Young &nbsp UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR4Q53V
Did I say met? I meant, um, not that.
If you were suspicious on hearing the news that Jeb Bush, of all people, had a "face to face" meeting with Black Lives Matter activists in order to address their concerns, you were right. It turns out the Bush campaign simply lied about it.

There was a meeting, but no activists from the Black Lives Matter movement participated. Instead, Bush met with a local elected official, a GOP lobbyist and a staffer from an anti-poverty organization. [...]

There were three people at the table with Bush. Hooks confirmed that a member of his staff [from the Las Vegas Urban League] was one of them. North Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem Pamela Goynes-Brown was the second, and she said the third attendee was Sean Fellows, a registered lobbyist for a communications firm who once ran as a Republican candidate for state assembly.

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Bush campaign lied about meeting with Black Lives Matter activists (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2015 OP
If they're talking they're lying. Ed Suspicious Aug 2015 #1
Somehow I'm not surprised. n/t TDale313 Aug 2015 #2
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