--- In [email protected], "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 9/22/05 1:45 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > > > > >>> > > >>> I thought the Bush family is from the northeast and moved to Texas > > >>> to 'develop' their oil business? > > >> > > >> Could be. They have a house in Maine. Maybe that's where they were > > >> originally from. > > > > > > I think so. It would be easy to look up but I am just lazy at the > > > moment. I heard somewhere that his 'family ranch' was purchased at > > > the suggestion of Karl Rove before the pres. election. This Texas > > > family thing is pure fabrication. > > > > He was Governor of Texas before becoming Prez. And surely lived > there quite > > a while before that. >
> He was born in CT but grew up in Texas. He left texas at age 15 to > attend Andover boarding school, then Yale and Harvard. So his family > pedigree and schooling is all old money east coast. But reports say > he was always more comfortable in texas with a jack daniels in hand > than on the east coast with some fine wine. The "ranch" is clearly > just an image prop. In his early business yrs, fellow texas > businessmen called him "all hat", that is, acted like a cowboy oilman > but not much substance there. ************** Texas has no income tax, and it allows people who own property there to declare themselves to be Texas residents even though they live elsewhere (maybe the law has changed, but it used to be that way), as long as the TX property is supposed to be intended as a retirement location. So the Bushes lived in Maine for years and paid no Maine taxes, on the basis of a sliver of property they owned in Houston -- the Bushes actually did retire to TX, although their friends had to chip in and buy more land surrounding their scrap of TX land, so that they could build a house and live there. Rich folks play a lot of these games -- Karl Rove does: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3338688 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
