by cd » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:46 am
Okay! Okay! Sorry I am so slow. A very interesting, but strange and bizarrely organized website that compiles the connections of the Schmitz brothers with the Bush 41 and 43 administrations is here: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spitfirelist.com/f476.html">www.spitfirelist.com/f476.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>As to the marital link between the Schmitz and Bush families - the Garnica sisters -- here is what I have been able to glean. Their father is Jose Maria Garnica and their mother is Josefina Gallo. They have a brother named Francisco. They all lived together in Leon, Guanajuata, Mexico, a poor region, until the father left to find construction work in California in 1960. 4 years later he sent for his family to join him. Columba was 11 and Lucila13. Soon after that the mother and father split. I don't know where the kids were raised after that. The father last saw his daughter Columba in 1973 (she would have been 21 or 22) when she left his home in LaPuenta, California saying that she was going to the post office and never returned. Somehow the dad returned (or was returned?) to Mexico, because he was there in 2001 when GWB took his first trip as pres. Jeb and Columba went along. The press in Mexico interviewed her dad (now back in poor Leon). He said he had tried several times over the years to make contact with Columba. When he heard that GWB had been elected he even sent a photo of his young family and a poster of Jesus to the president, in hopes he would be able to meet with his daughter on this trip. It was sent back unopened. The official bio of Columba says she met Jeb in Mexico when he was teaching English on an exchange for Philips Academy in 1971. Does that mean she moved back to Mex? If so, when? Perhaps her mother moved back to Mexico with the kids when she left the father. But that doesn't explain how her sister Lucila met the powerful and well-connected John P. Schmitz. These things don't just happen. Especially with two sisters from a poor family who may have been brought in to the U.S. without visas (of course, I don't know that). Anyway, the father said in the interview that he recieved a phone call the week before the official visit to Mexico from Lucila telling him to quit talking to the media, as he was upsetting Columba.This was back in 2001. I don't know what has happened within that family since then, but another article says that Columba and Jeb's son has indicated to his Mexican grandfather that he would like to meet him and wants to know about his Mexican heritage. I couldn't find out anything more about the mother, Josefina Gallo and the brother, Francisco.<br><br>As to Mary Kay Letourneau, I know I should consider her a monster and a pedophile, but after seeing an interview with her and another with Vili, I felt so sorry for her. She seemed like the victim, and at that time I didn't know anything about her family background. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that her father respected no barriers with her -- or anyone, for that matter. It is strange that she sided with her father in the family and blamed her mother for being cold. But, I know little about that type of family dysfunction. I wonder what happened to the other Schmitz children who are not known (yet) to be big-time players in the Bush administration. <p></p><i></i>