Archive: Jeb Watch

That Florida is a different — and better — place with 50 percent less Bush was made plain in an editorial in the Palm Beach Post.
I doubt such sentiments would have appeared while Jeb was still brutishly steering the ship of state in Tallahassee. But a new story by reporter, author, and Jeb critic [...]

Everybody wants a piece of Jeb Bush this week.
Jeb’s legacy for Florida’s public education system was to attempt to underhandedly undercut and underfund it
First, a group of Florida legislators announced they would right what they see as a terrible wrong against the former governor. University of Florida faculty members recently declined to make Jeb an [...]

Say you’re one of the country’s biggest hospital chains and you were recently fined hundreds of millions of dollars by the Securities and Exchange Commission for bilking Medicare. What do you do to turn your image around?
How about appointing Jeb Bush to your board of directors? After all, Jeb spent considerable time while governor of [...]

A new book from a Florida insider with no love for its subject warns of a Jeb presidential run as early as 2008.
In ”JEB: America’s Next Bush,” reporter Shirish Date advances a plausible-on-paper scenario for Florida’s 43rd governor to run for the nation’s highest elective office…
New book says Jeb is “not only a liar, [...]

Jeb Bush kept a tight lid on the problems his policies created in Florida while he was in office. But Jeb’s gone now and that famous Florida sunshine is shining in the cracks once so snuggly covered.
Take privatization for example. Even a Republican state senator is appalled at the sweet deal Jeb’s prison contractors enjoyed. [...]

The man who pledged to voters to be as much like Jeb as possible without surgical alterations is making some changes. Gov. Crist-Crossin’ Charlie has changed his mind again, this time for the better.
Reporters’ comfort and happiness were rarely concerns of Bush, who notably locked reporters in his office in 2000
Crist also ended Bush’s tradition [...]

At last, a reason to thank George W. Bush! The shame and disgrace he has brought upon the fine Bush name might keep Jeb from running for president.
At least that’s what Mr. Crybaby Snitty-Snear is saying.
“No tengo futuro,” Jeb Bush told Spanish-language reporters in Miami
The shadow of President Bush seemed to loom large over his [...]

Charlie Crist is giving his victory speech, and so far he’s thanked his sisters, which he always does as a way to show himself embracing females on the stage; Jeb Bush, whom he called — and I’m not making this up — “the world’s” greatest governor (note to Crist’s handlers — explain international political systems [...]

Bradenton [Fla.] Herald:
Then-U.S. Rep. Mark Foley complained in an e-mail to Gov. Jeb Bush in 2004 that he was being ignored by President Bush on his trips to Florida after several hurricanes.
“I know it is nothing you have done,” Jeb assured Foley.
…Foley complained that U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam accompanied President Bush on a visit into [...]