Jeb Bush announces interest in US Presidential candidacy

Jeb Bush announces interest in US Presidential candidacy

Thursday, December 18th, 2014

Jeb (John Ellis) Bush plans to actively explore the possibility of running for President of the United States of America.

He announced his interest on Facebook.

Bush is the former two-term Florida Governor is son of President George H Bush and brother of George W Bush.

In January, Jeb Bush plans to establish a leadership PAC to facilitate conversations with people across America to discuss the most critical challenges facing the nation.

The PAC’s purpose is to support leaders, ideas and policies that will expand opportunity and prosperity for all Americans.

Raised an Episcopalian, he joined the denomination of his wife and became a Catholic in 1996.

In 2009, Bush cited the “sacraments of the Catholic Church, the timeless nature of the message of the Catholic Church, and the fact that the Catholic Church believes in and acts on absolute truth as its foundational principles and doesn’t move with modern times as my former religion did,” as the reason for his conversion.

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