"What if what happened to SHS happened to you?"

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150. I refused to do business with a Jeb Bush appointee once

Not just because of his politics but also because he just assumed I would take his business.

I used to board horses but for a while I leased my facility to a woman who taught and boarded. When she left she told me she was leaving one of her clients and he would call be about his horse. Three months after she told me and weeks after she had left he finally called. He wanted to know how to make out his check. No asking if I was interested in his business, he just assumed I would. At that point I no longer wanted to engage in the boarding business and told him that.

Meanwhile I had looked this guy up. His name seemed familiar and I found articles about him. When Jeb Bush first became governor of Florida, this guy had been appointed to a position in the Department of Motor Vehicles. He put out a contract to install computers in every Highway Patrol car but he did not go through the proper channels of getting the contract approved, soliciting for bids, reviewing bids to select the best one. No, he just signed a multi-million dollar contract. He was allowed to resign, the contract was nullified, and the process had to start over again.

The moron would not take a simple "No" from me as an answer. He wanted to keep his horse at my place. The horse had been there for two weeks without an agreement, I did not have any instructions, did not know what it ate, who the vet or farrier were to take care of it's needs, and wanted it off my property. He would not admit that we had no contract, verbal or otherwise that obligated me to care for his horse. I had to threaten to call the sheriff to remove it.

At the end, when the horse was being loaded in a trailer, he was still whining about having to move it and trying to talk me into taking his business. I finally told him outright that aside from his negligence in not contacting me immediately to make arrangements, I could not trust anyone who treat taxpayer money so carelessly in any contract, verbal or written. And that I really didn't want to do business with any Republican anyway.