Thursday, November 6, 2014

Won his inaugural race--first Bush to do it

George P. Wins Texas Election, Accomplishes Bush Family First

CBS/AP, Nov. 4, 2014, CBS News

George P. Bush was elected Texas land commissioner in a landslide Tuesday, winning a little-known but powerful post that could eventually lead to higher offices and becoming the first in his family's political dynasty to win his first race.

Bush, a 38-year-old Fort Worth attorney and energy consultant, raised more than $3 million against his little-known Democratic opponent, former El Paso Mayor John Cook. Nonetheless, he spent months crisscrossing the state in a campaign bus adorned with his towering, grinning face.

Bush is the grandson of former President George H.W. Bush and nephew of President George W. Bush, who was Texas governor before taking the White House. His father, Jeb, is a former Florida governor who is considering a presidential run in 2016. But none of them--nor the family patriarch and source of George P.'s middle name, long-serving Connecticut Sen. Prescott Bush--won their first races.

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