SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – August 25, 2015 (Gephardt Daily) – The GOP frontrunner in Utah, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, will visit Utah today for a fundraiser.
Political website UtahPolicy.com said Bush will host donors and supporters at the home of Marcia and Ambassador John Price. For a $10,000 donation, visitors will get a seat at the luncheon and a photo op with Bush. A $2,700 donation gets attendees into the luncheon. Steven Price and Zions Bank President Scott Anderson are the hosts of the event.
A recent UtahPolicy.com/Dan Jones & Associates poll put Bush at the top of the crowded GOP field in Utah with 18 percent. Businessman Donald Trump and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul are his closest rivals at 9 percent.
John Ellis “Jeb” Bush is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007.
Bush is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, the younger brother of former President George W. Bush, and grandson of the late Prescott Sheldon Bush, United States Senator from Connecticut.
In 1986, Bush was named Florida’s Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father’s successful campaign for the Presidency.
In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida’s first two-term Republican governor.
