Jeb Bush has shown his clear and unequivocal support for quotas and affirmative action throughout state government.  Although touted as a move toward "fairness", Governor Bush's "One Florida" has actually expanded reverse discrimination.  Read the Press Release (in the right panel) by the American Civil Rights Coalition asking Jeb Bush to not sign a bill that expanded affirmative action throughout the state. 

If we elected Jeb Bush for president, it is clear he would expand affirmative action in the Federal Government and throughout the nation.  Time and time again Jeb has shown himself to be a social liberal.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 30, 2002
Contact:  Kevin Nguyen, 916/444-2278

Governor Bush urged not to sign Florida race preference bill

(SACRAMENTO) Ward Connerly and the American Civil Rights Coalition (ACRC) warned that should a recently-approved bill in Florida be signed into law by Governor Jeb Bush in the next few days, it would represent a preference program targeted exclusively to certain groups on the basis of race.

House Bill 1323 would create the Florida Minority Business Loan Mobilization Program that permits state-certified minority business enterprises, regardless of wealth, to request advance payments (up to 10 percent) on contract awards as a way to obtain or increase working capital financing.  Critics of the new program say that a more inclusive way to spur capital development among disadvantaged businesses is to make wealth or geography a qualifying factor, not skin color.

If Governor Bush signs HB 1323 into law, it would shatter the myth that his
One Florida plan in 1999 was designed to end preferences, said ACRC chair
Ward Connerly.  Instead, this legislation seems to conform with the desire
of racial advocacy and entitlement groups to increase the number of minority
contracts through more crafty forms of preferential treatment.

When he unveiled One Florida in 1999, Governor Bush observed that only a
pittance "$257 million or 2% of available state spending" was spent in
1998-99 with certified minority businesses.  Whats more, most of this
spending went to firms owned by white women, who count as minorities under the present system. Instead, he promised that One Florida will gauge
minority spending, not by illusory goals, but by the bottom line "we will
increase the dollars actually spent on minority businesses".[W]e will hold
[government] purchasing agents accountable, by making public the amount of
minority business spending for which each agent is personally responsible.
(http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/government/governorinitiatives/one_flori
da/floridaSummary.html)

In his Executive Summary of One Floridas Equity in Contracting plan,
Governor insisted: My plan is not race-neutral. Diversity is something to
be embraced, not excused. Race-consciousness is appropriate if State effort
does not come at the direct expense of non-minorities, as it does with
set-asides and price preferences.
(http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/government/governorinitiatives/one_flori
da/executiveSummary.html)

Governor Bush can do the right thing and veto this racially restrictive
policy and insist on nonracial qualifiers to this otherwise admirable
program, said Mr. Connerly.  But, by signing the bill into law, he would
instead show Floridians that racial politics transcends equal treatment
under the law.

HB 1323 was sent to the Governor on Mary 22, and he has 15 days to sign or veto it.  If he takes no action, it automatically becomes law.

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Governor Jeb Bush was the first politician to step into the Terri Schiavo tragedy and try to milk it for political gain.  In October of 2003, when the Schindlers' (Terri's parents) final appeal was exhausted, Jeb Bush pushed through "Terri's Law," in the Florida legislature giving him the authority to intervene in the case. Bush immediately ordered the feeding tube reinserted. Terris' husband, Michael Schiavo, opposed Bush's intervention, and challenged it in court.

Bush is no dummy.  He knew the law was unconstitutional but he was not interested in the law itself, but in the political gain he could milk out of it.  On May 5, 2004, a Florida circuit court found "Terri's Law" unconstitutional, and struck it down.  Bush appealed this order to the 2nd DCA, and on May 12 they issued an order sending it directly to the Florida Supreme Court.  The Florida Supreme Court then overturned the law as unconstitutional.

The aftermath of Bush's meddling in this case was the biggest political disaster for the Republican party in years.  We learn two things about Bush through this incident.  First, that he will use someone's personal tragedy for his own political gain if he thinks he can do so.  He never cared about Terri Schiavo.  He got involved only because at the time he thought he could get some good press off it.  Second, we learn that Bush has extremely bad political instincts.  His meddling in this case resulted in the biggest disaster for the Republican party in years.  If we nominated Jeb Bush for president we could expect more of the same.

Daddy Cry Baby   George Bush 41 (Reagan's worst mistake) breaks down in another of his emotional blathers as he heaps praise on his dear son.  Apparently what got dad all in a teary-eyed meltodown was not the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians that died in Bush 43's little war, or the hundreds of billions of dollars that Bush 43 has wasted on his little war, but the memory of how good old Jeb accepted his defeat for Florida governor in 1994.  His crackup came as he said "the true measure of a man is how you handle victory and defeat."  Oh, it makes me feel like crying...  Pat your ol' dad on the shoulder Jeb.

The Washington Post reports that Bush's wars in Iraq and Afganistan will cost $4 to $6 Trillion

Is this incredible or what? (Read their lips: No more Bushies for President)