Former President George W. Bush is scheduled to attend a Dallas fundraiser this week for a political action committee launched by backers of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, multiple outlets reported Monday.
The 43rd president has largely stayed off the radar since exiting the White House but has said he’d like to see his brother, Jeb, run for president in 2016.
The Dallas Morning News reported that the reception on behalf of the Right to Rise Super PAC is set to take place at the home of bank executive Gerald Ford and that the former president and former first lady Laura Bush are among those scheduled to attend.
Under the subject line “I changed my mind!” former first lady Barbara Bush, the mother of George W. and Jeb Bush, also lent her name to a recent fundraising email sent out by the Super PAC in which she acknowledged her past hesitancy about the idea of Jeb Bush running for president.
But she went on to write that “Jeb is our best chance of taking back the White House in 2016, and I hope that you will join me in pushing him to run.”
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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