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Jeb Bush: White House
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Jeb Bush under threat from voters who were struck off last electoral roll. From his prone position on a barber's chair, head thrown back and lathered, red suede shoes protruding skywards at the other end, Gerald White makes an alarming observation about politics in Florida.
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"Intimate Treasures, a sex shop in the resort town of Fort Walton Beach...received a low-interest, 25-year loan for $410,250, guaranteed by George W. Bush's Small Business Administration (SBA). Why?... Intimate Treasures possesses one attribute that makes it a highly attractive destination for federal dollars: It's located in Florida...According to a report in The Palm Beach Post last year, the Bush brothers' political advisers hold a joint weekly conference call to discuss Florida strategy and how Washington can help Tallahassee...And the new pots of federal money come with remarkable frequency...the White House has sent Washington dollars to buttress the three primary themes of Jeb's reelection effort: education, homeland security, and the environment. 'If you want to do a new initiative, and you want to get funding for it, you better show how it's going to help a state that was close in 2000, like Florida. Obviously, the word is out to help Jeb any way you can.'"
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The White House and the new Republican congressional leadership have said that they intend to use their new power to move Bush's conservative social initiatives. They want to open the federal social programs to conservative evangelical religious groups under his "faith-based initiatives," which would give these groups around the country the influence of being able to hand out federal largesse. Conservative religious groups have been the foot soldiers of Republican elections for two decades, and this would extend their power.
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June 14: The House of Representatives voted to make it easier to sell US farm products to Cuba by overriding a Bush administration requirement to pay in cash before the ship leaves harbor. By voice vote, the House adopted language allowing payment to be made before the goods change hands, a more common approach for cash sales that ... speeds delivery. It became part of a Treasury funding bill passed on a 406-22 vote. Representatives killed two other proposed amendments aimed at revising US relations with Cuba, including one to end the US economic embargo in place since the early 1960s.
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At a White House news conference, Bush described Wolfowitz as "a compassionate, decent man" with "good experience" in managing large organizations, citing his role at the Pentagon and as "a skilled diplomat" who is committed to global development. He was previously U.S. ambassador to Indonesia and served at the Pentagon in the administration of Bush's father during the 1991 Gulf War.
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Bush's comprehensive urban-renewal proposal seems most representative of his campaign. The plan uses small-scale government activism to achieve conservative goals-small-business loans, support for faith-based ministries, beefed-up drug and crime prevention-along with warmer and fuzzier ones, like new-parent counseling and a statewide mentoring program. One component involves turning over foreclosed or abandoned houses to qualified poor families (drug-free, crime-free, at least one parent employed), which would be required to pay fair market rent and refurbish the house. If the family fulfills these obligations, after five years the home is theirs.
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