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ALABAMA
All About Bushie's National Guard Service, Part swiped and part paraphrased from Salon.com Visit Salon for the full article.
Linda Allison the widow of George Allison, a Bush family confidant says her husband gave W an Alabama Senate campaign job as a favor to a worried George Bush Sr. Did they see him do any National Guard service? "Good lord, no. I had no idea that the National Guard was involved in his life in any way."
"After about a month I asked Jimmy what was Georgie's job, because I couldn't figure it out. I never saw him do anything. He told me it basically consisted of him contacting people who were impressed by his name and asking for contributions and support," Allison said.
Bush was paid while the other workers were unpaid volunteers. 
After a boozy election-night wake for Blount, Allison remembers encountering George W. Bush in the parking lot, urinating on a car, and hearing later about how he'd yelled obscenities at police officers that night. Bush left a house he'd rented in Montgomery trashed -- the furniture broken, walls damaged and a chandelier destroyed, the Birmingham News reported in February. "He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other people's possessions," Mary Smith, a member of the family who rented the house, told the newspaper, adding that a bill sent to Bush for repairs was never paid. And a month later, in December, during a visit to his parents' home in Washington, Bush drunkenly challenged his father to go "mano a mano," as has often been reported.
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