Category Jeb Bush
Zest of the Day: Politco on What Jeb Bush Wants
What does Jeb Bush want? Alexander Burns of Politico attempts to answer the question in our Zest of the Day.
Jeb Bush’s Bad Week: Is His Confidence Slipping?
By Kartik Krishnaiyer Unless you’ve been in a cave somewhere, I think everyone would agree Jeb Bush is having a bad week. Without rubbing further salt in the wound let’s analyze some of what I observed this week from the former Governor. When he was Governor, Bush was always confident bordering on cocky. His self […]
Zest of the Day: National Journal’s Beth Reinhard on Jeb Bush’s Poorly Timed Flip Flop
Jeb Bush has had a bad week to say the least. His national publicity tour to promote his new book, which may have been intended as a precursor to a 2016 Presidential run has gone badly. Beth Reinhard who covered Bush when he was Florida Governor as a political writer for the Miami Herald (she […]
AIF Legislative Priorities Largely Dangerous But Contain Some Nice Surprises
Through the years Associated Industries of Florida has become an extreme organization, more or less advocating unfettered free enterprise in the state and tort reform as the solution for just about every situation that may involve a degree of liability. While AIF has the usual list of dangerous tax breaks in this year’s agenda (which […]
Scripps Debacle Calls Into Question Jeb Bush’s Honesty About Job Creation
To those of us active in Palm Beach County politics at the time it was sold as our Disney World. A job creator to rival nothing else in the nation, Jeb Bush and local legislators, most of whom were Democrats used every little bit of hyperbole to sell the relocation of Scripps biotech research facility […]
School “Choice” Part I : The Agenda and History Behind Vouchers
Editors Note: Today we begin a three part series on School “Choice” legislation. This week Senate Democrats all but conceded defeat in the fight to stop the infamous “Parent trigger” bill since the dynamics of the Senate have changed with moderate, free thinking Republicans replaced Jeb Bush left the Governor’s office over six years ago, […]
The Florida Squeeze 