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I\u2019ve known Jeb Bush since the day he first arrived in Florida.\u00a0 It was 1980 and I was invited to a suite at the swanky Omni Hotel on Biscayne Boulevard.\u00a0 There he was\u2014George H.W. Bush\u2019s son\u2014tall, handsome and bilingual. He was coming to South Florida to play for keeps and would go on to become state chairman of the GOP and, eventually, governor. I\u2019ve known Jeb Bush since the day he first arrived in Florida.\u00a0 It was 1980 and I was invited to 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\nAbout 20 of us were invited to meet him. We were community leaders, a few journalists and businessmen and women. We crammed into the room to hear and meet the prodigal son and he delivered, impressively and compassionately.
\nOf course, any politician can say what he thinks a crowd wants to hear in that moment.\u00a0 But Jeb Bush continued his commitment to much of what he promised back then in 1980.\u00a0 And last night, he remained true to it.
\nIt would have been so easy for Bush to turn his back on my ideals as a Hispanic American, or even those of his wife and his children, but he didn\u2019t.\u00a0 In Des Moines last night, he remained the same Jeb I first met at the Omni Hotel, a building that isn\u2019t even there anymore, but Jeb still is. No one would have remembered whatever promises he\u2019d made, but Bush remembered.
\nSo last night, the two Hispanic surnamed senators were in a verbal fistfight over which of them will treat Hispanic immigrants worse. These two guys named Rubio and Cruz were solidifying their bona fides as anti-Mexican, and promising the white, non-Hispanic people of Iowa that they would deport 5 percent of the U.S. workforce, Jeb Bush never looked so tall in his defense of Hispanics.
\n“So weird to listen to two Hispanic senators fighting with each other over who will treat Hispanic immigrants worse? Gracias guys.” That is what I wrote on Mosh.us and Twitter last night. It was just a normal reaction to what I was watching that happened to hit a nerve with thousands like me.
\nRick Sanchez is a contributor for Fox News Latino.<\/i><\/i>
\nPhoto:\u00a0 towleroad.com<\/em>
\nTo read the full story:\u00a0 http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/opinion\/2016\/01\/29\/rick-sanchez-jeb-bush-proves-hes-what-rubio-and-cruz-are-not\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"