In Bedford, Jeb Bush Touts Experience, Jabs at Trump

“By the way, I worked for his brother and I love his dad, so excuse me for the mess-up because I think this is a legacy of principled leadership and that’s exactly what Jeb Bush would bring to the White House”, Ridge said.

“What Donald Trump did was use eminent domain to try to use eminent domain to take the property of an elderly woman on the strip in Atlantic City”, Bush said.

Donald Trump’s history of using, and many would argue abusing, eminent domain in his business life has surfaced time and again on the campaign trail, with Saturday night’s GOP debate as no exception. While he seemed on strong footing about the necessity of eminent domain to public works projects, Bush noted that that’s not the use to which Trump has put it in the past.

The topic is especially fraught in New Hampshire, where Kinder Morgan’s Northeast Energy Direct (NED) pipeline is mired in contentious eminent domain claims. But considering the way the debate audience completely booed Donald for his latest antic, it will certainly be interesting to see if it has any affect on his performance in the New Hampshire primary! “I didn’t take the property”, Trump shot back, saying he walked away from the deal.

At a campaign rally in Bedford Saturday, Christie jokingly thanked the crowd and said that he was thrilled that “none of you people made enough fun of Donald Trump to make him not come tonight”.

The moment that left Trump telling the audience that he didn’t need them (no, literally) happened during a heated exchange over eminent domain with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. “And people that do, they either need to get therapy themselves or realize that we can change the course of this country working together to solve problems”. “That is not public objective, that is downright wrong”, declared Jeb Bush.

“To turn this into a limousine parking lot for his casinos is not the public use”, Bush shot back. “That’s who it is”, Trump said, shrugging as he continued to be booed.

TRUMP: The woman ultimately didn’t want to do that. “And I’m the only one up here who can say that”. “We are trying to make the rounds this weekend”. “I felt that he was on top of the issues, and he had a solution, but the solution never involved making a commitment to give people money out of the government’s checkbook”, said Patz, a 68-year-old retiree from the insurance field.

As for the Rubio campaign, “One thing I have to do is compliment them”, Cardenas said. I don’t need their money.

Fiorina has not been invited to the main stage debate, a move she says is rooted in the idea that “establishment candidates…are afraid to debate me”.

“The Keystone Pipeline – without eminent domain, it wouldn’t go 10 feet”, Trump said.

BUSH: I consider it a public use.

New Hampshire voters routinely ask Jeb Bush about his parents, who spend part of the year in neighboring ME, and like to share stories and photos from meeting them in the past.

At least publicly, Bush remains positive about his hopes in New Hampshire and beyond. It’s “the end of the road for the Bush dynasty” if he can’t pull out a second place finish in New Hampshire’s February 9 primary, said Boston University political scientist Tom Whalen.