Jeb Bush‘s once almost certain nomination as the GOP 
presidential choice seems farther and farther away each day and he seems increasingly desperate to gain that ground back.
Maybe that’s why he felt the need to embellish his business experience in an interview Thursday on Fox News’ Happening Now.
Asked to differentiate himself from his father and brother, the two previous Bush presidents, Jeb turned to his own record — and decided to, um, inflate his, er, role.
“I have 32 years in the private sector. I built my own business up from a standing start of two people to be the largest commercial real estate business in South Florida,” he said.
Whoops. Wait a minute. Did you forget your buddy Armando Codina?
Codina, a Cuban-American real-estate developer who had supported George H. W. Bush’s failed 1980 campaign against Ronald Reagan, offered Jeb a 40 percent stake — with no money down — in his already successful company, Codina Group (the predecessor to Codina Partners). Bush’s role was to find sites and tenants for commercial developments. Cushy job for the son of a sitting vice president who Codina knew would likely run again.
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How come Jeb Bush never talks about the other business deals he was involved in that came under scrutiny? The water pumps he sold in Nigeria? The $4 million bail out he got for the savings and loan in Broward he was involved in? His time as a consultant for InnoVida, where he worked for three years before the two owners were convicted for wire fraud and money laundering? His failed charter school with T. Willard Fair?
Bush has a convenient memory about his long and colorful business experience. But a self-made man he is not.
Not like Armando Codina is.
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