Columba Bush and Debi Dobbs

Two men, both mentioned as possible presidential candidates have something in common. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and journalist/activist Lou Dobbs both have Mexican-American wives.

Columba Bush was born Columba Garnica Gallo in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, where she grew up and attended high school. Her parents were Jose Maria Garnica, a migrant worker, and Josefina (or Josephina) Gallo. She met Jeb Bush in 1971 in León, where he was teaching English as part of a foreign exchange program.

Not much information is available about Debi Dobbs who was once known as Debi Segura, a former CNN Sports anchor. Lou Dobbs has acknowledged that his wife is Mexican-American by heritage. It drives the pro-illegal immigration forces wild especially those that label Lou Dobbs as racist. Read the comments of this anti-Dobbs pundit.

Columba Bush and Debi Dobbs have something else in common other than their heritage. Both have minor scrapes with the law on their record.

Columba made headlines when she failed to report $19,000.00 worth new clothing and jewelry that she brought into the country. Then there is this item about Debi Dobbs:

About 4 years ago Debi Dobbs was arrested at the Newark Liberty International Airport after airport security found a loaded gun she was carrying in her handbag. She was charged with criminal possession of a weapon. After being fingerprinted and photographed by Port Authority Police, Debi Dobbs was released without bail. Mrs. Dobbs faced arraignment in a Newark court but the outcome of the case is not generally known.

The gun Debi Dobbs carried was a .25 caliber pistol. I have one of those in my arsenal. They are so small it could be very easy to forget you had it. At least that's what she told gun advocate Don Imus as reported in Media Life Magazine:

Dobbs' wife didn't know she was packing heat
Ever gotten busted for having a nail file in your carry-on bag? Don't feel bad. Lou Dobbs' wife Debi says she was unaware she was carrying an unlicensed, loaded, .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol in her purse when she arrived at the Newark airport Wednesday. Dobbs was scheduled to take a flight to Florida with her twin daughters to meet up with her husband, host of CNN's "Moneyline." On Don Imus's radio talk show yesterday, Lou Dobbs explained that she had the gun in her purse from a trip to Vermont last fall and had forgotten about it. Dobbs said that while his wife doesn't have a license to carry a gun, she needs it for security reasons at the family's isolated horse farm in Sussex, N.J. After being fingerprinted and photographed by Port Authority Police, Debi Dobbs was released without bail (and without the gun) to take a later flight to Florida. After her return, Mrs. Dobbs will face arraignment in a Newark court. Lou Dobbs joked about the incident with Imus, saying that a husband is unlikely to stray "when you do have a wife who knows how to use a handgun."

If this is the only "dirt" that opponents can dig up on Jeb Bush or Lou Dobbs, I would say they don't have much...