Jeb! Bush's wealthy friends and campaign contributors are not very happy with the hapless candidate. Seems they think keeping him in a manner to which Bushes are accustomed all while he loses is a problem.
Eleven of 16 major donors contacted by Reuters questioned whether it was money well spent, especially given how the one-time frontrunner has stumbled badly in the polls and is now facing questions about whether he should withdraw from the race. […]
"There is no return on investment on the Bush ad buys, zero,” said one high-dollar donor who asked not to be named, pointing to how the ads have done little, at least so far, to lift Bush in the polls or dent his opponents.
“They are burning money,” said a second major donor, who, like all the other high-dollar donors interviewed, asked not be named for fear of displeasing the Bush family.
In the first four months of Bush's "official" campaign, after he finally announced in June of last year, he spent $1.2 million just on private planes. In the same period, the Clinton campaign spent $700,000 on air travel, Ted Cruz $158,000 on private planes, and Marco Rubio $293,300. Bush also likes to stay in luxury hotels, in that same period spending "$125,000,or 70 percent of his total hotel spending between June and September on hotels defined as luxury or 'upper upscale' luxury hotels by STR Global, which tracks supply and demand data in the hotel industry."
All this has investors feeling very cranky. They'll likely be even crankier when they see the latest campaign filings are released this Sunday. It might be enough to make all that money dry up, particularly if he performs as poorly in Iowa and New Hampshire as he's polling. The money which has kept him around as a maybe-viable establishment candidate could very well end up backing another horse.
You can bet those investors, though, wouldn't be complaining about all this lavish spending if Bush were winning. There would be no concerns about how it "just doesn't look right." They'd be patting themselves on the back.