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  Jeb Bush - SourceWatch
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, born February 11, 1953, in Midland, Texas, is a brother of President George Walker Bush and son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush.
Bush was elected as Florida's Republican Governor in November 1998 and was re-elected November 2002 (term expires January 2007).
Bush was educated at the University of Texas, with a BA Latin American Affairs (1974).
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Jeb_Bush   (782 words)

  
 Jeb Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953), is an American businessman and politician, and the Republican forty-third Governor of Florida.
Bush was unable, due to term limits under state law, to seek a third term as Governor.
Bush is popular among Cubans in Florida (winning 80% of the Cuban vote in 2002), and popular among non-Cuban Hispanics (56% in 2002, equaling the 56% he won statewide).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeb_Bush   (3876 words)

  
 Jeb Bush - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jeb Bush is one of the founder of the PNAC.
Jeb also helped the right-wing Guatemalan politician Dr. Mario Castejon get in contact with Oliver North for among other Castejon's proposal for a medical aid project for the Contras and his proposal for TGS International in Virginia.
Jeb was contacted in February 1985 by a friend of Castejon, who gave him a letter from Castejon to be passed on to then Vice President Bush.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Jeb_Bush   (712 words)

  
 JEB WATCH
Thanks to Jeb Bush's voodoo economics, smoke-and-mirrors education reforms, environmental poison pills and right-wing pandering, the state is in shambles.
Jeb has turned the $3 billion surplus he inherited from Lawton Chiles into a deficit of between $1.4 billion and $4 billion.
Bush is quick to pass the buck, claiming terrorists are to blame for our budget woes in spite of the fact that a revenue estimating conference demonstrated his tax cuts for Florida's wealthiest residents dug us into a $672 million hole well before 9/11.
www.bushwatch.net /jebwatch.htm   (1265 words)

  
 Jeb Bush gets rude welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, in town for a fund-raiser for Sen. Rick Santorum, had a close encounter with a large group of anti-Republican protesters as he was making his way to the Duquesne Club, Downtown.
Bush scurried to the escalators and descended to the mezzanine level, Mr.
Bush said she was unaware of the incident last night and had no immediate comment.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06280/728177-53.stm   (516 words)

  
 ABC News: A 3rd President Bush? First 2 All for It
Bush's Florida travels put him smack in the middle of a political brouhaha involving his brother and the woman who helped the president win the White House.
Jeb Bush, the Republican governor of Florida, has one asset that his presidential brother doesn't right now approval from most of his constituents.
Jeb Bush has said he doesn't think Harris, the former secretary of state famous for her role in the 2000 Florida recount that clinched George Bush's presidential bid, can win the seat.
abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=1946802   (540 words)

  
 PNAC member of the week - Jeb Bush
In 1985, Jeb Bush acted as a conduit on behalf of supporters of the Nicaraguan contras with his father, then the vice-president, and helped arrange for IMC to provide free medical treatment for the contras.
Bush is quick to pass the buck, claiming terrorists are to blame for our budget woes in spite of the fact that a revenue estimating conference demonstrated his tax cuts for Florida's wealthiest residents dug us into a $672 million hole well before 9/11.
Jeb Bush was in the perfect position to ensure the rise to prominence of his fellow imperialists.
www.oldamericancentury.org /jeb_bush.htm   (1276 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Jeb Bush visits Florida troops in Iraq
Bush said the subject of Rumsfeld's future is "not of a concern" to troops.
As he passed out commemorative Florida coins, Bush said he was amazed to find that almost every soldier he met had spent time in Florida after one or more of the hurricanes that struck the state in the past two years.
Bush's visit to Baghdad was a closely guarded secret until Saturday, when the governor held a conference call with four Florida reporters.
www.sptimes.com /2006/04/15/Worldandnation/Jeb_Bush_visits_Flori.shtml   (786 words)

  
 Jeb Bush joins Tenet Healthcare's board - USATODAY.com
DALLAS — Jeb Bush, who tried to tackle rising Medicaid spending as governor of Florida, was elected Thursday to the board of Tenet Healthcare Corp., whose struggling Florida hospitals have become a drag on company profits.
Bush, the 54-year-old younger brother of President George W. Bush, said Tenet could join the debate over changing the way government health plans pay hospitals, but he declined to say what his role would be.
Bush's major health care initiative as governor was an effort to control spending on Medicaid, the federal-state plan for the poor, by shifting recipients into private managed care plans.
www.usatoday.com /money/economy/2007-05-10-3254091799_x.htm   (475 words)

  
 JEB - What he said - What he did   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bush, who is pro-life, favors duplicating foster-care and adoption reforms that have been successful in Sarasota, where non-profit groups provide all services, resulting in a 65 per cent increase in adoptions.
Bush said that hard work and living a life of humility are key points for this year's graduates to become leaders of the next generation.
In 1994, Bush advocated requiring state prisoners to serve at least 85 per cent of their sentences before being eligible for parole (at the time the average was just 37 per cent), and in 1995 he worked with Republican legislators to get a law to this effect passed.
www.whoseflorida.com /jeb-said_did.htm   (8886 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: The Florida Governor's Race -- Jeb Bush Biography
In one case Bush wrote a letter to the department of Housing and Urban Development urging the department to review the case of a Miami contractor who was seeking a HUD loan.
Bush also intervened with the department of Health and Human Services on behalf of a Miami-based HMO operator who had complained that new federal rules would hurt his business by limiting the number of Medicare patients the company could enroll.
Bush claimed to have implemented sufficient reforms, but the 2002 Democratic primary this fall proved that in some areas the old problems persist and that "reforms," like new computerized voting machines, have posed new problems.
www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2002/races/fl_bush.html   (1868 words)

  
 Right Web | Profile | John Ellis "Jeb" Bush
Jeb has maintained staunchly conservative views throughout his political career, and at one point in the late 1990s seems to have been considered a potentially more influential political ally than his brother by the neoconservatives who founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
Bush’s ties with the community included serving on the Dade County Republican Party with Camilo Padreda, a former intelligence officer with the Batista dictatorship that was overthrown by Fidel Castro and who was later indicted for embezzlement.
Jeb Bush and his wife Columba both serve on the advisory board of the Drug Free America Foundation (DFAF), an anti-drug advocacy organization founded by Melvin Sembler, a major Republican Party donor and a prominent backer along with Sheldon Adelson of the hardline pro-Iraq War group Freedom’s Watch.
rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1065.html   (1155 words)

  
 Bush says brother could be president - Politics- msnbc.com
Jeb Bush has repeatedly said he is not going to run in 2008.
Bush was waiting on the tarmac when Air Force One arrived and greeted the president with a politician’s handshake and “Welcome to Florida.” The president brushed aside the formality and playfully adjusted his younger brother’s necktie.
Jeb Bush introduced his brother at a retirement community in Sun City Center, where the president touted the new Medicare prescription drug benefit as the governor watched intently from a politically appropriate seat stage right.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12721154   (755 words)

  
 Jeb Bush Trivia - Jeb Bush Facts - Jeb Bush Notes
Jeb Bush: Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
Jeb Bush: I can't think back on a time when I've ever been prouder to be a Republican.
Jeb Bush: This is not the time to be defiant or to kind of let people know that you're a macho man. There are other ways to do that in life.
www.tv.com /jeb-bush/person/407217/trivia.html   (630 words)

  
 State: U.S. fraud suit targets ex-partner of Jeb Bush
Gov. Jeb Bush's former business partner in a venture to sell water pumps abroad defrauded the U.S. government of more than $74-million, federal authorities contend in a lawsuit.
Bush, campaigning for governor at the time, shrugged off questions about the deal as little more than complaints from a disgruntled former staffer.
Jeb Bush sold his share in Bush-El in 1994, and has said he earned about $648,000 from the company.
www.sptimes.com /2002/03/15/State/US_fraud_suit_targets.shtml   (1067 words)

  
 CNN.com - Jeb Bush's daughter charged with prescription fraud - January 29, 2002
A statement from the company said Bush was to begin a job as an entry-level human resources administrative assistant.
If Bush is sent to drug court, he said, she most likely would be placed in a rehabilitation program or in counseling with drug testing.
Police said that Noelle Bush admitted that the prescription's call-back number for the doctor is a second line in her home.
archives.cnn.com /2002/US/01/29/jeb.bush.daughter.drugs   (550 words)

  
 Jeb Bush - OrlandoSentinel.com
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush was the 43rd governor of Florida, elected in November 1998 and inaugurated on Jan. 5, 1999.
Jeb Bush is married to Columba Garnica Gallo, whom he met in Mexico City while an exchange student from Phillips Academy at Andover.
Jeb Bush, who speaks fluent Spanish, went to work for Texas Commerce Bank in 1974 and three years later opened a branch office for the bank in Caracas, Venezuela.
www.orlandosentinel.com /topic/politics/government/jeb-bush-PEPLT007436.topic   (1315 words)

  
 Recall Jeb Bush - Governor of Florida Petition
During the last campaign, Jeb Bush knew full well that legitimate voters had been who had illegally purged by him and his Secretary of State, Katherine Harris in 2000 were still off the voter rolls in 2002.
Jeb Bush - Devious Plans for Florida are abusing Florida's children, the elderly & the helpless.
Jeb Bush has freeloaded off the citizens of Florida for too many years and his job as governor borders on criminal as he has used the power of the state government itself against the citizens of Florida.
www.petitiononline.com /JebLies/petition.html   (660 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - The Western Front
George W. Bush defeated Democratic incumbent Ann Richards in 1994 to become governor of Texas and was re-elected in 1998.
Bush 43 may succeed in establishing the principle of private accounts within the Social Security system, but it will likely be the next president (perhaps Bush 44) who will have the opportunity to steer the bulk of our payroll taxes into such accounts.
Jeb Bush's close association to George W. would be an asset if voters embrace the Ownership Society.
www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/bminiter/?id=110007078   (918 words)

  
 CNN.com - Senior Bush plugs Jeb for president 'someday' - Jun 1, 2005
Bush, who was president from 1989-1993, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" with former first lady Barbara, from the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Jeb Bush is in his second gubernatorial term, which ends in January 2007.
Jeb and George W. are two of six children by George and Barbara Bush; one died in childhood.
www.cnn.com /2005/POLITICS/05/31/bush.plug   (720 words)

  
 Jeb Bush Stinks
While Bush and GOP legislators acted at the request of Terri Schiavo's parents to keep their daughter alive by overruling the wishes of her husband and a court, an overwhelming number of the poll's respondents believe that a spouse should determine whether an incapacitated person without a living will should be taken off life support.
DCF chief Kearney finally quits 13 Aug. Jeb Bush had been defending Kearney as child advocates and lawmakers called for her to be fired and continued to praise her even after accepting the resignation.
Bush was to have worked in the human resources department, a job Lynch had interviewed her for after Bush submitted her résumé about a month ago.
www.extralove.com /ash_moored.html   (5014 words)

  
 Executive Office of Governor Jeb Bush | Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Governor Jeb Bush was elected Florida’s 43rd Governor in 1998, and was re-elected in 2002.
Governor Bush is a devoted husband to First Lady Columba Bush and a devoted father to sons George and Jeb, Jr., and daughter Noelle.
Governor Bush was born in Midland, Texas and is the son of former President George H. Bush and Barbara Bush, and the brother of President George W. Bush.
www.flgov.com /biography   (355 words)

  
 Jeb Bush's Influence in Fla. Inspires Awe, Rage (washingtonpost.com)
Jeb Bush's political powers, his eloquence and his gifts as a strategist are considered major assets to his brother's campaign, both by the governor's detractors and by his fans.
In 1998, when Jeb Bush won his first term as governor, the state also approved a raft of constitutional amendments, including one that changed the job of secretary of state from an elected to an appointed position effective in 2003, giving the governor a huge role in the election process.
Bush, in a rare national news media interview, said on ABC News's "This Week" that the report was "absolutely false." In the same interview, he addressed his own political future.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html   (1032 words)

  
 Jeb Bush For President
Peggy Ann Quince was appointed by Jeb Bush to the high court in 1998.
Jeb Bush has shown his clear and unequivocal support for quotas and affirmative action throughout state government.
Governor Jeb Bush was the first politician to step into the Terri Schiavo tragedy and try to milk it for political gain.
www.jebbushforpresident.net   (1165 words)

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