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>From TheIndpendent (UK)
> Bush's wife is caught smuggling clothes
>
> By Andrew Marshall in Washington
>
>
>
> MOST of us know the feeling: as you walk through Customs, you wonder
> whether you'll be stopped, and those holiday purchases subjected to
> scrutiny. Fewer of us have actually had the customs officer running
> his hands through our luggage, asking where all this stuff came from.
> And only Columba Bush went through all this and then saw the story hit
> the front pages of newspapers across America. But then she is the wife
> of the governor of Florida, and a member by marriage of one of
> America's most famous political families.
>
> Mrs Bush had been on a shopping trip to Paris, and she seems to have
> got a little carried away.
>
> She bought $19,000 (�11,875) worth of clothes and jewellery, but she
> didn't admit it to Customs at Atlanta airport: she declared only $500.
> "So we asked her for receipts," said a spokesman for US Customs, "and
> they were a little bit more." She had to pay a fine of $4,100, putting
> herself and her husband, Jeb, on the television and in the newspapers
> for days.
>
> Mr Bush, son of the former president, George Bush, and brother of the
> Republican presidential candidate, George W, is aghast. "I can assure
> you it was a difficult weekend at our house," said the governor. "She
> knew that what she did was wrong and made a mistake." His wife "feels
> horrible", he said. The explanation, he says, is that she had spent
> more than she should have done and didn't want him to know. "It is a
> lot of money. But look, that's between her and me," he said.
>
> The trip was, ironically, his gift to her after she followed him
> around the campaign trail in last year's elections.
>
> Mrs Bush, from Leon, a town in central Mexico, has neither sought nor
> found the limelight in the past. She met her husband when she was 16,
> and found her role model in his mother, Barbara, not political wives
> like Hillary Clinton.
>
> "All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most
> important role, no doubt," she said in an interview recently. But she
> is a seasoned international traveller, and must have known that her
> holiday shopping was more than a little over the limit.
>
> Her husband wants to draw a line under the affair. "She has
> apologised," he said earlier this week. "She feels horrible about it,
> and I love my wife more than I love life."
>
> The media have had a field day, not only because of the legal breach
> but because of what it tells us about the Bushes' spending habits.
>
> "Memo to Columba Bush," said the Miami Herald in an editorial. "Next
> time you feel the need for a shopping orgy, try this: Buy American."
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