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Bush campaign acknowledges covenant issue
July 13, 1999 WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, July 13) -- Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush and his wife sold their Dallas home in 1995 with a "restrictive covenant" in the deed designed to restrict ownership to white residents, records of the sale indicate. Bush purchased the property in the Dallas neighborhood of Preston Hollow in 1988 and sold it in 1995, six days after being sworn in as governor of Texas. The restrictive language was present in the deed in both transactions. But since the state of Texas outlawed such restrictions in 1984, the language was never legally enforceable. "The governor was not aware of it," Bush spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said Tuesday of the covenant. She said the restrictions are included on all home titles in the Dallas neighborhood, but they are "null and void" and "one individual cannot remove it from their deed." Tucker says the campaign has asked attorneys to research the steps needed to remove the covenant.Dawn Moore, an agent for the title company that closed the sale of the home to the Bushes in 1988, said that she did not meet personally with the Bushes, but she sent the list of restrictions to them along with the closing papers. Title companies routinely supply buyers with deed restrictions along with closing papers, but it was uncertain Tuesday whether the Bushes read them. Information about similar covenants on neighborhood deeds was confirmed to CNN by the Texas Association of Realtors and by Alfonso Jackson, a friend of the Bush family and former president of the Dallas Housing Authority. Jackson is African-American and also lives in Preston Hollow, in a home with the same racially restrictive deed. Bush is the front-runner in polls for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. |
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