Gov. Bush says Florida needs some long-term solutions

[JohnLocke]

Gov. Bush says Florida needs some long-term solutions
By Susan Miller -- The Palm Beach Post
Saturday, September 24, 2005
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BOCA RATON — With Hurricane Rita bearing down on the Gulf Coast and the threat of gas shortages and higher prices at the pump, Gov. Jeb Bush on Friday outlined Florida's need for a long-term survival strategy, hurricane preparedness and creation of alternative fuel sources.
"We have some serious challenges in our state," Bush told a crowd of more than 600 local business leaders, politicians and other dignitaries gathered at the Boca Raton Resort and Club, where he was honored as the 2005 Business Leader of the Year by Florida Atlantic University's College of Business.
Pointing to mass evacuations in Texas, Bush said Florida needed to develop a better strategy for getting people out of harm's way.
"The net result of a lack of preparation, as we have seen, can destroy a community forever," Bush said.
He is the first politician to receive the award, which traditionally has gone to local business leaders for their entrepreneurial accomplishments. The governor was selected for his vision, said FAU President Frank Brogan, who credited Bush with bringing the Scripps Research Institute to Florida. After the morning ceremony, Bush headed north to break ground on Scripps Florida at Mecca Farms.
Although agriculture and tourism have provided the base for Florida's economy, with the governor's help, technology will bring Florida into the future and better balance the state's economic portfolio, said Brogan, who left office as Bush's lieutenant governor in 2003 to become FAU president.
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The governor also voiced support for the creation of a gas pipeline into Florida and for more nuclear power, apologizing if it was politically incorrect, but adding that it is a "stable source of electricity."
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Wonder why he got that award. :eyes:

[baldguy]

1. Start with getting rid of Gov Bush.

[goclark]

2. Amen to that -the scum

[Trillo]

3. So sorry for that politically incorrect radiation,

its a cash cow whose milking never stops.

[krkaufman]

11. Yes, in light of all these more-powerful hurricanes....

... let's chat about building nuclear reactors directly in their path. And, hey!, while we're at it, why not build them on marshland down in them everglades..!?!?

Ok, not exactly his "plan", I'm sure, but nukes is hardly the end-all of "alternative" energy.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

4. fuck you, jeb.how's that for a long term solution, asshole?

oohh that felt good

[opihimoimoi]

5. Why do they keep telling us the obvious, stuph we know already?

[tlcandie]

6. How about getting rid of Jebbie FIRST and then putting in the

high speed rail system we Floridians have voted for time and again, yet, Jebbie always finds a way to veto it!?!?!

Puck you Jebbie and rest of Bushies!

[madrchsod]

7. did anyone see his pooka?

was he waving his sword around ready to do battle? jebbies is just a tad crazy....

[cdeca2005]

8. Praise The Lord for Term Limits....

...Jeb is done in 2006

[peace frog]

9. Don't break out the champagne just yet...

The next Repuke governor could be even worse... :banghead:

[teryang]

10. It would be difficult for this state to get any worse

The social support system is being systemically destroyed. The legislature is rabidly right wing.

[Solly Mack]

12. Yeah..for the long term: NO MORE BUSHs ever

and that goes for America

[JohnLocke]

13. Kick (nt).