Blue Herald
04
Sep
Job Opening in Florida: Governor
by Buck

BRENDAN FARRINGTON
(AP) 09.03.2006

Gov. Jeb Bush is leaving office after eight years, and Florida voters will take the first step Tuesday in deciding whether they want to elect someone who shares his values or a governor who will seek to dismantle some of the Republican’s key programs.

It’s a race that all of the candidates say could be a bellwether for the 2008 presidential election, saying that as Florida goes, so goes the nation. It’s also an opportunity for the state’s once-dominant Democrat Party to quickly get back some of the power it has lost in recent years.

Bush, a powerful governor with a conservative agenda who is being forced out by term limits, has overhauled the education system, expanded privatization, given billions in tax breaks and begun a program to make Medicaid more like private managed care.

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You’ve got to love term limits. Without them, Bonzo would still be president!

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