Word: jeb
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...Bush. It wasn't until late Wednesday night, on Joe Benigno's encounter-therapy session for Jets and Knicks fans, that I finally heard an anti-right suspicion voiced on New York radio. Doris in Rego Park, the nattering Queen Mum of sports-station callers, said of Florida Governor Jeb Bush, "He's gonna make sure that his brother is elected...
Pundits noted that while the Daley political machine had turned out the Democratic vote for Gore in Illinois, Bush's brother Jeb--the popular governor of Florida--could not deliver his own state to his brother...
...Nobody knows for sure, but there are some possibilities. One was a late and heavy turnout that had Governor Jeb Bush ordering polls to remain open until everyone in line at 7 p.m. had voted. Also, Florida's two time zones may have complicated matters, as well as the rush to get results in for the state that everyone agreed would be the first big test of the election...
Long considered a sure Bush win--mainly because George W.'s brother Jeb is the state's governor--Gore has managed to make inroads in the state's large senior citizen population by attacking Bush's Social Security plan. Recent polls have shown the race within two or three percentage points...
Last year Spencer Bibbs and neighboring A.A. Dixon Elementary became national guinea pigs as the first schools to lose kids to state-sponsored vouchers, thanks to Governor Jeb Bush's "A+ Schools" program, the model for his brother's national voucher plan. (As Governor of Texas, George W. Bush tried but failed to get the legislature to pass a similar program.) Students at both Pensacola schools were offered as much as $4,000 in state aid to pay for private-school tuition. Under Bush's national proposal, failing schools that do not improve for three years would lose their federal...