Gov. Bush focuses on past achievements, skips contentious topics (Jeb)

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Gov. Bush focuses on past achievements, skips contentious topics during speech

By Mark Hollis
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Tallahassee Bureau
Posted March 8 2006


TALLAHASSEE -- In a boastful but undistinguished State of the State speech Tuesday, Gov. Jeb Bush presented the Florida Legislature with a final-year agenda that relies on familiar Republican themes of tax cuts, lawsuit limits and public school reforms.

Mindful of the national interest in his political future and his legacy as Florida's first governor of the 21st century, Bush claimed credit throughout a 29-minute televised address for improving education, reducing crime, handling the state's hurricane response and slashing the size of state government.

However, he provided no direction to legislators on how they should deal with some of the state's most contentious topics, such as a growing crisis over the cost and availability of property insurance and huge public school classes. He barely mentioned health care and the environment, issues that are crucial to many South Floridians.

The 43rd Florida governor opened the 60-day, 2006 regular session of the Florida Legislature by urging lawmakers to proceed in the same fiscally conservative direction that he has taken Florida during two terms and since becoming governor in 1999.


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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-fjeb08mar08,0,4877628.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

[flordehinojos]

1. i have three words for jeb buttinsky bush:

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[bullimiami]

2. bullshit. our state is a fucking mess.

[roguevalley]

3. do enough people see that too?

[Divernan]

4. Do you think Jeb will jump to replace Harris in the Senate race?

And if so, would everyone who voted for him for Governor, vote for him again?
(I hope to hell not!)