Jeb plans enriching L.I. visit
PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL Jeb Bush will head on a Hamptons fund-raising trip that will be a three-meal, oneday affair with a stop at money man
Ken Lipper’s East Hampton mansion, Confidenti@l has exclusively learned.
Lipper, who last year gathered more than 500 signatures backing restrictions at East Hampton Airport to reduce aircraft noise, will host Bush (r.) at an intimate brunch after the former Florida governor flies in just for the day on Saturday, July 25.
Lipper once served as deputy mayor under Ed Koch. He is chairman of Lipper & Co., an investment bank based in Manhattan, and was appointed to the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority by Gov.
Cuomo.
That should make for interesting dinner conversation.
Lipper also won an Oscar for producing the documentary “Last Days” and wrote the novel “Wall Street,” the source material for the Oliver Stone film. Bush will fly in for an early breakfast, also in East Hampton, and head to a dinner in Southampton that night.
Sources had told us Bush will visit the Hamptons with New York Jets owner Woody
Johnson, his campaign finance chairman, for a potential fund-raising showdown with Hillary
Clinton on Long Island. Bush is planning “at least one huge multimillion-dollar weekend” in the East End paradise, sources say.
Domestic abuse is expected to be one of Bush’s main talking points in the anticipated showdown with Clinton. He has been speaking about spousal abuse at recent fund-raising rallies, and Johnson is operating from the same playbook.
One insider at a recent Bush fund-raiser, who plans to meet the candidate in the Hamptons, says Woody and Jeb have been in lockstep on trying to steal female voters away from Clinton. “I know a little bit about this (domestic abuse) because of what’s happened in the NFL,” Johnson told GOP money men at a recent rally. Bush has told supporters that while he was governor of Florida, domestic abuse cases dropped 24%.
According to our insider, the Bush campaign team believes it’s a foregone conclusion they will face Clinton in the election.
“Everyone ... expects Hillary to be the competition,” the source said.
Our source also insists that Team Bush isn’t worried about Donald Trump getting the Republican nomination or running as an independent.
“Publicly, they’re saying that he doesn’t speak for all Republicans,” we’re told. “But privately, they’re calling him crazy.”