St. Pete Times, 2/4: Why so many people are glad Jeb is gone

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Why so many people are glad Jeb is gone
By BILL MAXWELL, Published February 4, 2007, St. Petersburg Times

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Based on what I am reading and hearing, I am not alone. Many other Floridians, even some who supported Jeb, are glad to be rid of him.

One of my friends summed up his and many other people's feelings: "It's nice to be able to take a breath for a change."

I met Jeb and interviewed him for the first time when he ran against Lawton Chiles in 1994 and lost. I met and interviewed him twice when he ran against Buddy MacKay in 1998 and won, at the Liberty City Charter School in Miami, which Bush co-founded with T. Willard Fair, and at the headquarters of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Immokalee.

Each interview gave me valuable insight into Jeb. I saw a young, highly intelligent patrician who was full of Republican ideas and ideals. Each time I was with Jeb, I studied his behavior and that of his staff and others around him. I suspected that Jeb would rule with the proverbial iron fist - "my way or the highway," with "fear and trembling."

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[LonelyLRLiberal]

1. The Bush family arrogance and abuse of power is consistent in all of them.

What a bunch of sick bastards.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. I don't know why we're just keeping this in the Florida pages.

Afterall, if we had a Texas page back when Bush was govenor of Texas, maybe he would have never become president?

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3. Its great not to see his arrogant face

in the newspaper every day. Such a refrshing break!