CANF outraged by return of dozen Cubans (declare war on W* admin)

This is just the time for the Dem party to make inroads in S Florida again.

All they need to do is cozy up to the intransigent Miamicuban professional "exiles" and their terrorist brethren.. again.


CANF outraged by return of dozen Cubans
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6393740.htm

The loyalty to the Republican party that has defined Cuban-American politics for two generations came under attack Saturday from leaders of the Cuban American National Foundation -- CANF -- at their annual board of directors meeting.

CANF, the most influential Cuban-American lobbying group in Washington and one of the most highly regarded exile organizations, all but declared political war on the Bush administration and GOP congressional representatives from South Florida.

The spark that ignited the backlash was the Bush administration's decision last week to repatriate 12 Cubans suspected of hijacking a boat to reach Florida. After negotiations with the Cuban government, the United States agreed to return the suspected hijackers after Castro's government pledged to spare their lives and sentence them to no more than 10 years in prison.

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He's been cultivating those important relationships for so long.......

(snip) The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals

New book reveals links of two presidents and the governor of Florida with exiled hardliners

Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Monday December 2, 2002
The Guardian

The brother of President George Bush, the Florida governor, Jeb Bush, has been instrumental in securing the release from prison of militant Cuban exiles convicted of terrorist offences, according to a new book. The Bush family has also accommodated the demands of Cuban exile hardliners in exchange for electoral and financial support, the book suggests.

Last year, after September 11, while the justice department announced a sweep of terrorist suspects, Cubans convicted of terrorist offences were being released from US jails with the consent of the Bush administration, according to the book, Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, by Ann Louise Bardach, the award-winning investigative journalist who has covered Cuban and Miami politics for the New York Times and Vanity Fair.

The Bush family connections go back to 1984 when Jeb Bush began a close association with Camilo Padreda, a former intelligence officer with the Batista dictatorship overthrown by Fidel Castro.

Jeb Bush was then the chairman of the Dade county Republican party and Padreda its finance chairman. Padreda had earlier been indicted on a $500,000 (£320,000) embezzlement charge along with a fellow exile, Hernandez Cartaya, but the charges were dropped, reportedly after the CIA stated that Cartaya had worked for them. (snip/...)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,851913,00.html

He's made a fool of himself for them, gotten scurrilous criminals "sprung," and this is the thanks he gets?

Where are the votes of tomorrow coming from for the Republican Party in Florida??????

Surely George W. Bush, after all those trips he's made to Miami, to visit his fan club, will do something to bring them back. The Bushes' ties to them are too tangled. Can they ever really divorce him?

Bob G has always pandered to the worst elements of the Miamicuban "exile" diaspora, and its paid off for him for decades.

If the Miamicuban vote is so damned important (about 2% of Fla voters), then Bob is the man. Bob was up on stage whooping it up and gladhanding with terrorists Orlando Bosch and 'Pepe' Hernandez and vigorously applauding W*, the last time W* was in Miami yelling from the CANF podium - gittin tough on Castro.

I hope that they don't expect a better deal from the Dems.he has also pandered to Isreal. Time is now to repeal the Cuban reajustment act.

Thursday, July 11, 2002

By JACKIE HALLIFAX, Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE — Miami lawyer Raoul Cantero III was named by Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday to the Florida Supreme Court, becoming the first Hispanic to serve on the state's highest court.
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A grandson of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, Cantero was born in Spain to Cuban-born parents and became a U.S. citizen at age 15.

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His candidacy attracted some controversy because he helped defend Orlando Bosch, an anti-Castro extremist who was labeled a terrorist by the U.S. government for his purported ties to bombing raids on Cuba.

On a Miami radio talk show in 1989, Cantero called Bosch a "Cuban patriot." Bush also championed Bosch, and his father, former President George Bush, pardoned him.

http://www.naplesnews.com/02/07/florida/d798244a.htm

"All they need to do is cozy up to the intransigent Miamicuban professional "exiles" and their terrorist brethren.. again."

I'd be willing to settle for them just staying away from the polls. No need to pander to every group.