Bush Taps Fund-Raiser As French Ambassador(COUSIN)

[bluedog]

AP
Bush Taps Fund-Raiser As French Ambassador

WASHINGTON - President Bush has chosen Craig Stapleton, a cousin by marriage and top campaign fund-raiser, ...............



If the Senate confirms Stapleton, a Democrat, he will get the plum post in Paris after serving earlier in the Bush administration as ambassador to the Czech Republic.(.....no .he campaigned for bush)

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Stapleton, whose wife, Debbie, is the president's cousin, was the U.S. ambassador in Prague from August 2001 to January 2004, when he returned to his home in Greenwich, Conn., to help Bush's successful re-election campaign. Stapleton and his wife were among the top fund-raisers for Bush in both the 2000 and 2004 election cycles.


He also was a partner with Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team.

He replaces Ambassador Howard Leach, who took a parting shot at French President Jacques Chirac as he prepared to leave Paris. Leach told reporters Tuesday that Chirac had a sudden and still-unexplained change of heart in the lead-up to the Iraq war and actively worked against U.S. interests.

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[rzemanfl]

1. If that's a "Democrat" I am a concert pianist. n/t

[politicaholic]

2. Democrat my ass...

gimme a break, how big of idiots do the Bushes think we are...oh wait...I think I had the answer to that long ago.

[benddem]

3. How much you want to make a

bet that he doesn't speak French...besides being a Repug.

[bluedog]

4. he has no tact..and very little class.....

Craig Stapleton
Czech Republic. 2001 - 2003. Returned to fundraise for Bush 2004.


$60,500 personal $$ to Personal Donations to GOP in 2000


Former co-owner of Texas Rangers. Married to Bush cousin, Dorothy.

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Czech 101. Reportedly walked out and slammed door on Czech prime minister during Iraq war rift.***************************


http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2004/07/baseball.html



*********most of these men DO NOT speak the language of the country.....check out this list.......

[phoebe]

5. Interesting that he was made a US ambassador in August 2001

Victims of 9/11 included approximately 300 Marsh & McLennan employees...

AIG's recent problems will no doubt tie to Marsh & McLennan regardless of M & M bid rigging scandals that have already surfaced...