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...offense, Governor. And, to repeat: Jeb Bush still has a career. "There's a real disjoint between the op-ed pages and people on the street about Jeb," says Susan McManus, a political analyst at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Since W. and Jeb are two of the most powerful political brothers since Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Jeb's apparent durability is bad news for Democrats who hope to cut W. down by unseating Jeb in next year's Governor's race...
During the Florida recount fiasco, which Tallahassee Republicans call "the recent unpleasantness," national pundits consigned Governor Jeb Bush to the chad heap of history. They clucked last month when he fought with his brother the President over oil drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast (W. wants to; Jeb does not). And they dished last week when Jeb denounced the "sickening" (and apparently unfounded) rumor that he'd had an affair with a state official, once a Playboy bunny...
...does run, he'll be tough to beat. His drive to make Florida schools more accountable has yielded higher test scores. And many voters have begun to move beyond the recount, not only because most of the Miami Herald's recent analysis confirmed W.'s victory, but also because Jeb this month delivered on his promise of electoral reform. Starting next year, Florida will replace the punch-card and butterfly ballots with statewide optical scanning...
...said last week that she's considering it. Many blacks and Jews still blame him for disenfranchising them last November. As state revenues are shrinking, Republicans have cut his $313 million tax-cut plan almost in half this month, and his government downsizing efforts have sparked state-employee demonstrations. "Jeb's conservative agenda is remarkably out of touch with the majority of Floridians," says Democratic Congressman Jim Davis, a possible challenger...
...Florida does re-invest in tobacco, critics will be sure to point out that almost three-quarters of the $400,000 the industry funneled to the state's 2000 elections went to Republican candidates. Gallagher, Governor Jeb Bush and Comptroller Roger Milligan, who oversee the retirement fund, are Republicans all. But Florida wouldn't be the first to reverse itself: of the nine states who divested themselves of tobacco since 1996, Kentucky and Maryland have since allowed for re-investment. Still, Rhea Chiles, wife of the late Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, who led the divestment drive, noted that...