Word: jeb
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Both chambers meet on Jan. 5. The Republican-majority House would probably pick Florida's Bush electors. The evenly divided Senate would probably choose Gore's (as Vice President, Gore gets the deciding vote). If this split decision happens, the chief executive of Florida--Jeb Bush--gets to choose which slate to endorse. Will he crown his brother...
Like a siamese twin, Jeb Bush may now have to lay down his political life so that his brother can survive. It wasn't supposed to come to this. Seeing peril in leading George W.'s postelection fight, Jeb recused himself, leaving the heavy lifting to his secretary of state, Katherine Harris, who relished the task and delivered the goods. But last week Jeb emerged from his self-imposed exile to comment on the effort by house speaker Tom Feeney, his friend and former running mate, to summon the legislature into special session, perhaps as early as Wednesday, to name...
...Jeb looks Shakespearean in his tragedy. By dint of self-abnegation, he had almost made it through a campaign that many, including his parents, thought would be his to wage. While big brother was always the party-hearty sort, coasting through school, floating through oil busts, a cutup during the first 20 years of a checkered career, Jeb was the good son who worked hard and played by the rules. As his dad advised, Jeb made his fortune before making a bid for office, and meanwhile slowly climbed the party ladder in South Florida. But fate is fickle...
...Governor, Jeb was a smirk-free policy wonk, working from dawn till dusk with no breaks for video games or naps. Yet he became a warm-up act, introducing W. as "my older, smarter and wiser brother." Sometimes appearing disengaged in the campaign, he volunteered to reporters, "You know, George doesn't have to win Florida to win the election," as if the pressure to produce were misplaced. During the final push, Jeb dodged inquiries about his effort by saying how much he loved his brother. W. joked that if Jeb didn't deliver, he'd "be washing...
...counters assemble across Florida and Judge Sauls rubs his temples in anguish, both Gore and Bush have preemptive strikes to make. Gore has already prepared a legal and public-relations assault on the Florida legislature in general and Jeb Bush in particular. Saturday he releases the hounds...