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Jeb Bush
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John "Jeb" Bush was elected governor of Florida in 1998 and served two terms before stepping down in 2007. He is the son of former president George Bush and the brother of president George W. Bush. A Texas native, Jeb Bush moved to Florida in 1981 and joined the Codina Group, a real estate development company. He became Secretary of Commerce under governor Bob Martinez in 1987 and was the Republican nominee for governor in 1994, losing to incumbent Lawton Chiles. In 1998 he ran again and won, becoming governor of Florida at the same time his brother George W. was governor of Texas. In the presidential elections of 2000 the race between George W. and Democrat Al Gore was so close that the entire national election depended on the results of disputed vote counts in Florida.
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Aug 28, 2002 | A U.S. Justice Department lawsuit against a former business partner of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is raising new questions about yet another Bush's old business dealings. State Democrats think the scrutiny could be their best chance to evict Bush from the governor's office in November. As one Florida Democratic operative puts it, the key to erasing Bush's double-digit lead over his potential Democratic challengers, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and Tampa attorney Bill McBride, is to tell the story of how Bush "came to Miami with chickenshit, and turned it into chicken salad."
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[T]he unpopularity of his brother may have scuttled any plans Jeb Bush may have had in national politics. Mr Bush did not elaborate on his comment. But he has said repeatedly over the past year that he would not run for president in 2008 and has never seemed comfortable with talk about “Bush III” or the “Bush presidential dynasty”.
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Winning re-election handily over upstart Democrat Bill McBride, Gov. Jeb Bush rejuvenated a political career badly damaged by the state's election debacle in 2000 that landed his older brother in the White House. President Bush visited the state 13 times during the campaign and his Republican rival, Arizona Sen. John McCain... rallied support to maintain GOP control in what national party leaders considered a must-win state. The first Republican ever to win re-election to the state's top office, the 49-year old Bush fended off a challenge to his record on education when McBride failed to offer alternatives to a tax hike to pay for new education initiatives. He has promised to focus his second term on improving public education, particularly early reading skills.
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Here is yet another Jeb Bush privatization scheme that has brought about disaster - this time to abused kids. "Amid mounting allegations of shoddy work and falsified records, the state Thursday canceled multimillion-dollar contracts with a Pinellas Park company it hired to investigate child abuse cases. The move is a blow not only to the nonprofit company, but ... to state Department of Children and Families Secretary Kathleen Kearney, who just last week proudly recounted in an interview how rapidly the department had cut its backlog of abuse cases. The cancellations mean that already overworked state and local investigators are likely to get even higher case loads as the department severs ties with the company that had investigated more than 10,000 cases the department was too busy to manage." The Bushes think families can be strengthened through empty rhetoric, rather than economic assistance and well-managed public services. Where is the outrage???
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Former Gov. Jeb Bush, already a handsomely-compensated member of the Tenet Healthcare board, has been given another high-level seat at the table. A spokesman for Lehman Brothers, the worldwide financial services company, confirms Bush is the newest member of the firm's Private Equity Advisory Board.
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