Here in the Western United States and specifically in California where I live we don't know much about Jeb Bush because he was governor of Florida which is a long long way from here. So, since it is quite likely, (barring some kind of scandal) that the Republican nominee is going to be Jeb Bush and the democratic one Hillary Clinton. We know a great deal about Hillary and Bill Clinton but almost nothing about Jeb Bush. So here is what Wikipedia has to say about his life and political positions on most things:
Jeb Bush
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| Jeb Bush | |
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| Bush speaking at CPAC in National Harbor, MD, February 27, 2015 | |
| 43rd Governor of Florida | |
| In office January 5, 1999 – January 2, 2007 |
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| Lieutenant | Frank Brogan (1999–2003) Toni Jennings (2003–2007) |
| Preceded by | Buddy MacKay |
| Succeeded by | Charlie Crist |
| Florida Secretary of Commerce | |
| In office January 6, 1987 – September 9, 1988[1] |
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| Governor | Bob Martinez |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Ellis Bush February 11, 1953 Midland, Texas, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Columba Bush (1974–present) |
| Relations | See Bush family |
| Children | George Noelle John Ellis |
| Parents | George H. W. Bush Barbara Pierce Bush |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
| Profession | Banker, Consultant |
| Religion | Episcopalian (Before 1995) Roman Catholic (1995–present) |
| Signature |  |
Bush grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. Following his father's successful run for Vice President in 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.
In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and beat Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican governor.[2] During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating environmental improvements, such as conservation in the Everglades, supporting caps for medical malpractice litigation, moving medicaid recipients to private systems, and instituting reforms to the state education system, including the issuance of vouchers and promoting school choice.[3][4]
Frequently cited by the media as a possible candidate for president in 2016, in mid-December 2014, Bush announced he would explore the possibility of running for President, a campaign he is expected to formally launch on June 15, 2015.[5][6][7]
Contents
- 1 Early years
- 2 Early career
- 3 Governor of Florida (1999–2007)
- 4 Post-governorship
- 5 2016 presidential election
- 6 Personal life
- 7 Electoral history
- 8 Bibliography
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 Further reading
- 12 External links
Early years
Jeb Bush was born in Midland, Texas in 1953. When he was six years old, the family relocated to the Tanglewood neighborhood[8] of Houston, Texas.[9] The nickname "Jeb" is composed of his initials J.E.B. (John Ellis Bush).[10]He initially attended Grady Elementary School in Houston.[11] Following in the footsteps of his father and older brother George, at the age of 14 years in the fall of 1967,[8] Bush began attending high school at the Andover, Massachusetts boarding school Phillips Academy Andover.[12] Even though he received poor grades at first and occasionally smoked marijuana, Bush made the honor roll by the end of his senior year and served as captain of the tennis team.[13] At the age of 17, he taught English as a second language and assisted in the building of a school in a small village outside of León, Guanajuato, Mexico, (the village of Ibarrilla)[14] as part of Andover's student exchange summer program.[15] While in Mexico, he met his future wife, Columba Garnica de Gallo.[15][16] Bush, who had largely avoided criticizing or supporting the Vietnam War, registered for the draft after his graduation from high school in 1971, but was not selected as the war wound down.[13]
Though many in his family had attended Yale University, Bush chose to attend the University of Texas at Austin.[8] He played on the Texas Longhorns varsity tennis team in 1973.[8] He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Latin American Studies.[8] He completed his coursework in two and a half years.[17] He is fluent in Spanish.[18]
Early career
Business
Bush went to work in an entry-level position in the international division of Texas Commerce Bank, which was founded by the family of James Baker.[19] In November 1977, he was sent to the Venezuelan capital of Caracas to open a new operation for the bank, where he served as branch manager and vice president.[20]Following the 1980 presidential election, Bush and his family moved to Miami-Dade County, Florida. He took a job in real estate with Armando Codina, a 32-year-old Cuban immigrant and self-made American millionaire. Codina had made a fortune in a computer business, and then formed a new company, The Codina Group, to pursue opportunities in real estate.[21] During his time with the company, Bush focused on finding tenants for commercial developments.[22] Codina eventually made Bush his partner in a new development business, which quickly became one of South Florida's leading real estate development firms. As a partner, Bush received 40% of the firm's profits.[23] In 1983, Jeb Bush explained his move from Houston to Miami: "On the personal side, my mother-in-law and sister-in-law were already living here", and on the professional side, "I want to be very wealthy, and I'll be glad to tell you when I've accomplished that goal."[24]
During Bush's years in Miami, he was involved in many different entrepreneurial pursuits, including working for a mobile phone company, serving on the board of a Norwegian-owned company that sold fire equipment to the Alaska oil pipeline, becoming a minority owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars, buying a shoe company that sold footwear in Panama, and getting involved in a project selling water pumps in Nigeria.[23] Miguel Recarey, who ran International Medical Centres (IMC), employed Bush as a real estate consultant and paid him a $75,000 fee for finding the company a new location, although the move never took place. Bush did, however, lobby the Reagan administration vigorously and successfully on behalf of Recarey and IMC.[25]
Politics
Bush volunteered for his father's campaigns in 1980 and 1988. During the 1980 campaign, Bush worked as an unpaid volunteer, and later said that his father is "the greatest man I’ve ever met or will meet; I can predict that fairly confidently. It was payback time, simple as that."[26] Bush got his start in Florida politics as the Chairman of the Dade County Republican Party in the mid-1980s.[8][26][27] Dade County played an important role in the 1986 election of Bob Martinez to the Governor's office. In return, Martinez appointed Bush as Florida's Secretary of Commerce.[27] He served in that role in 1987 and 1988, before resigning once again to work on his father's presidential campaign.Bush frequently communicated with his father and his father's staff during George H.W. Bush's time as vice president and president.[28] The younger Bush recommended Dexter Lehtinen for the post of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and set up a meeting between the Bush Administration and Motorola.[28] Bush also advocated for the cause of the Cuban exiles, many of whom had settled in South Florida, and Bush supported the Cuban embargo.[28] In 1990, Bush interceded with his father, the president, to pardon Orlando Bosch, a Cuban exile who had been convicted of firing a rocket into a Polish ship which was on passage to Cuba. Bosch was released from prison and granted residency in the U.S.[25]
In 1989, he served as the campaign manager of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the first Cuban-American to serve in Congress.[29] Bush launched an unsuccessful bid for the Governor's office in 1994 against incumbent Democratic Governor Lawton Chiles.[29] Bush ran that year as a conservative, and a notable moment in this campaign was when Bush was asked what he would do for African Americans if he gets elected, responding: "It’s time to strive for a society where there’s equality of opportunity, not equality of results. So I’m going to answer your question by saying: probably nothing."[30][31] Bush lost the election by only 63,940 votes out of 4,206,076 that were cast for the major party candidates (2,135,008; 51% to 2,071,068; 49%). In the same election year, his older brother, George, was elected Governor of Texas. Following his election loss, Bush joined the board of the Heritage Foundation and continued to work with Codina Partners.[22] Alongside T. William Fair, the president of the Urban League's Miami affiliate, Bush helped to establish Florida's first charter school.[22]
Governor of Florida (1999–2007)
1998 gubernatorial election
Main article: Florida gubernatorial election, 1998
An earlier portrait of Governor Jeb Bush.
In the 1998 election, Bush garnered 61 percent of the Hispanic vote and 14 percent of the African American vote, a surprising showing for a Republican seeking statewide office.[33]
Education
Bush's administration was marked by a focus on public education reform. His "A+ Plan" established tough standards, required testing of all students, and graded all Florida schools. From 1998 to 2005, reading scores of 4th grade students in Florida on the National Assessment of Educational Progress increased 11 points, compared to 2.5 points nationally.[34]Bush has been a proponent of school vouchers and charter schools, especially in areas of the state with failing public schools, although to date very few schools have received failing grades from the state. He established the McKay Scholarship Program which provides vouchers for students with learning disabilities to attend a school of their choice. He also established the A+ Opportunity Scholarship Program which provided vouchers to students. This program was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court in 2006.[34]
Bush was responsible for creating the Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship which provides corporations with tax credits for donations to Scholarship Funding Organizations which must spend 100% of the donations on scholarships for low income students.[34]
His policies were also driven by a firm refusal to raise taxes for education, which led Bush to oppose a ballot initiative to amend the Florida Constitution to cap growing school class sizes. Bush said he had "a couple of devious plans if this thing passes".[35][36] Despite his opposition, the amendment passed.[37]
In higher education, Bush approved three new medical schools during his tenure and also put forth the "One Florida" proposal, an initiative that effectively ended affirmative action admissions programs at state universities.[38] These moves were among the influencing concerns that led to the faculty of the University of Florida to deny Bush an honorary degree, while the University of Florida Alumni Association made him an honorary alumnus.[39]
Fiscal
While Governor, Bush reduced taxes by $19 billion, reduced the size of state government by 6.6 percent, and vetoed $2 billion in new spending.[34] He increased the state's reserves from $1.3 billion to $9.8 billion and presided over Florida receiving the highest possible bond rating for the first time.[40]In May 2006, as part of a $448.7-million line-item veto of state funding, Bush cut a total of $5.8 million in grants to public libraries, pilot projects for library homework help and web-based high-school texts, and funding for a joint-use library in Tampa.[41]
Labor
Bush eliminated civil service protection for over 16,000 state jobs, which had the effect of making it easier to fire employees in those positions. In addition, he issued an executive order which removed racial preferences in state contracting.[40]Environment
Bush at Rookery Bay participating in Earth Day activities in 2004
Gun rights
Bush supported more than a dozen new protections for gun owners.[40] In 2005, Bush signed into law Florida's stand-your-ground law,[42][43] which was the first such state law in the United States.[44]Gay rights
Bush argued against legal protections based on sexual orientation.[45] In 1994 he wrote that "The public policy question is whether homosexuals deserve special legal protection…, or, to put it another way, should sodomy be elevated to the same constitutional status as race and religion? My answer is no. We have enough special categories, enough victims, without creating even more."[45]Capital punishment
Bush oversaw 21 executions as Governor[46] (more than Graham, Martinez and Chiles while they were in office[citation needed]). Bush never agreed to commute any sentence.[47]Bush also presided over switching from electric chair (the only method of executions until 2000, now optional) to lethal injection, after a botched electrocution of Allen Lee Davis (first inmate executed under his administration and last, to date, electrocuted in Florida). After two previous botched executions (Jesse Tafero in 1990 and Pedro Medina in 1997) Governors Martinez and Chiles along with legislature declined to change methods.[48]
While he is an advocate of capital punishment, Bush suspended all executions in Florida on December 15, 2006, after the execution of Ángel Nieves Díaz was seemingly botched. The execution took 37 minutes to complete, and required a second injection of the lethal chemicals.[49]
Health policy
As Governor, Bush proposed and passed into law major reform to the medical liability system. The Florida Senate, a majority of which were Republican, sided with the trial lawyers against caps on non-economic damages. Bush insisted, and called the legislature into five special sessions. The contentious debate even included a senior Bush staffer calling for primary opposition to Republicans who disagreed with the Governor on the reforms. Eventually, the legislature agreed to the caps and Bush's reforms passed.Bush passed a reform to Florida's Medicaid system that moved recipients into private managed care systems.[40] Also, Florida was the first state in the nation to publish hospital outcomes on the Internet, including cost and information on quality, infections and complications.[50]
Bush was involved in the Terri Schiavo case, involving a woman with massive brain damage, who was on a feeding tube for over 15 years, and whose husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, wished to remove the tube. This move was opposed by Terri Schiavo's parents in the courts. Bush signed "Terri's Law", legislation passed by the Florida legislature that authorized him, as Governor, to keep Schiavo on life support.[51][52] The law was ruled unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court on September 23, 2004. That decision was appealed to the federal courts. On January 24, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, thus allowing the Florida court's ruling to stand.[53]
While Governor of Florida, Bush was opposed to abortion.[54] He supported a law requiring parental notification for teen abortions and requested that the courts appoint a guardian for the fetus of a mentally disabled woman who had been raped.[55] Choose Life, a pro-life advocacy group based in Ocala, Florida, submitted a specialty license plate application—previously vetoed by Governor Lawton Chiles—which passed both houses and was signed into law by Bush on June 8, 1999.[56][57]
Immigration
In 2004, Bush supported an unsuccessful bill to allow illegal immigrants to be issued drivers licenses by the state.[40]Judicial
During Bush's tenure, the racial and gender diversity of the state's judicial bench increased. However, according to the Wall Street Journal, Democrats criticized some of Bush's judicial appointments as being "overtly partisan and political".[40]Vetoes
Florida High Speed Rail
In 1995, the Florida state legislature created the High Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) and came up with a public-private partnership model. Government would build the system leveraging state dollars with federal funds and tax-free bonding. The private sector was to invest money in the project, help design and build the network, and be given the franchise to operate the trains–known as Design-Build-Operate-Maintain (DBOM). Trains would be privately owned, similar to how the airline industry operates in a publicly financed airport.[58] The rail system and its planning was estimated to cost $7–$8 billion.[59]On January 14, 1999, Bush announced that the venture posed too much risk and too much cost for Florida taxpayers and that further funding would be halted.[60] In response, Florida businessman C.C. (Doc) Dockery, the former chairman of the Florida High Speed Rail Commission, authored a constitutional amendment that was added to the Florida ballot in 2000. The amendment was approved by voters. The amendment directed Bush and the Florida legislature to start building a high speed monorail, fixed guide way, or magnetic levitation system linking Florida's five largest urban area by 2003.[61] Bush vetoed funding for the project and led a high-profile campaign to amend the Florida constitution to repeal the 2000 constitutional amendment that mandated the construction of the high-speed system.[59][58] In 2004, voters approved that amendment to repeal the 2000 high-speed rail amendment.[62]
Parenting coordinators
Bush vetoed a 2004 bill about court-appointed parenting coordinators because of his concern that the bill would not adequately protect families as they try to resolve their conflicts.[63]2000 presidential election recount in Florida
Bush was governor when his brother George W. Bush won an intensely fought election recount in Florida to become President. Bush recused himself from any official role in the recount.[64]2002 gubernatorial election
Main article: Florida gubernatorial election, 2002
Bush defeated Democratic challenger Bill McBride in 2002 with 56% to 43%, a greater margin of victory than in 1998.Bush won 44 percent of the state's Jewish vote in the 2002 race.[65] Bush also won the white female vote in the swing-voting battleground of Central Florida's I-4 corridor.[66] However, he was not able to replicate the same success with African American voters (like he had earlier in 1998), winning only 8 percent of the African American vote.
Post-governorship
Impact on political party
As of 2002, American conservatives appeared to be positive about Bush, seeing him as committed to upholding core conservative principles.[67] Outside of Florida, fellow Republican leaders throughout the country have sought Bush's aid both on and off the campaign trail. Bush's out-of-state campaign visits include Kentucky, where Republican challenger Ernie Fletcher appeared with Bush and won that state's governorship in 2003,[68] ending a 32-year streak of Democratic governors.Bush has been criticized by some in the Tea Party as not being sufficiently conservative, as he supports positions on immigration and Common Core that are unpopular with some conservatives.[69] Bush publicly criticized the national Republican party for its adherence to "an orthodoxy that doesn't allow for disagreement" on June 11, 2012. In comments shared with Bloomberg View, Bush suggested that former Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush would "have had a hard time" finding support in the contemporary GOP.[70]
Political interests and business activities
From 2004 to 2007, Bush served as a Board Member for the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB).[71] Created by Congress, the board's purpose is to establish policy on reports examining K-12 students' academic progress in America's public and private schools. Since then Bush's education foundation has advocated for the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[72] In October 2013, referring to opponents of the standards, Bush said that while "criticisms and conspiracy theories are easy attention grabbers", he instead wanted to hear their solutions to the problems in American education.[73]In April 2007, Bush joined Tenet Healthcare's board of directors.[74] The following August, Bush joined investment bank, Lehman Brothers, as an adviser in its private equity group.[75] Bush has also served on the board of InnoVida, Swisher Hygiene, and Rayonier and has served as an adviser to Barclays.[76] Bush would later return $270,000 in consultancy fees he had been paid by InnoVida after they declared bankruptcy.[77]
As of 2014, Bush had received more than $2 million from his work for Tenet, a company that expected to receive $100 million in new earnings in 2014 because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and that "aggressively encouraged Americans to sign up for insurance under the program...."[76] Bush has reportedly objected to the ACA at company meetings, but has kept his personal views separate from what is best for Tenet.[76]
In April 2013, Bush authored a cover story for Newsmax magazine, urging conservatives to be a movement of "growth and opportunity" and warning that America's entitlement system risked collapse unless there was a course correction in U.S. public policy. Bush touted a six-point plan for the conservative movement that included tax reform, education reform, a welcoming immigration policy, energy independence, regulatory reform, and pro-family policies. [78]
In October 2013, Bush called for passage of immigration reform.[79] In April 2014, Bush said of illegal immigration: "It's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family. I honestly think that that is a different kind of crime. There should be a price paid, but it shouldn't rile people up that people are actually coming to this country to provide for their families."[80]
Contemplated National Football League commissioner
In May 2006, Bush was privately approached to become the next commissioner of the National Football League.[81] The former commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, announced that his tenure would soon be over and he was searching for replacements. "I'm flattered", Jeb Bush said May 24, 2006, of the NFL's interest, "but I'm Governor of the state of Florida and I intend to be Governor until I leave—which is January 2007. And I'm not going to consider any other options other than being Governor until I finish."[82] Roger Goodell eventually became the new NFL commissioner.Contemplated run for U.S. Senate, 2010
In 2008, Bush indicated that he was considering running in the 2010 U.S. Senate race for the seat being vacated by Mel Martinez, who announced that he would retire at the end of his term.[83][84][85][86][87] But in January 2009, he announced that he would not run for the Senate.[88] Instead, he supported Marco Rubio for the position.Contemplated 2012 presidential election run
Throughout 2009 and 2010, rumors abounded that Bush would attempt to win the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election—rumors that he strongly denied from the beginning.[89] In February 2011, after renewed calls were made for him to run for president,[90][91] In July 2011, he reiterated his position that he was not running, although he was heavily critical of the Obama administration.[92]2016 presidential election
See also: Political positions of Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February 2015.
Logo for Bush's Right to Rise Super PAC
At a press conference on April 16, 2013, at Bluefield College, Bush stated he had not begun the decision making process about a run but that he would begin to consider a run soon.[94] On October 2, 2014, Bush's brother George W. Bush said that his brother "wants to be President".[95]
On December 16, 2014, Bush announced via Facebook that he would be "actively exploring" a 2016 run to become President of the United States and at the end of the year resigned several corporate boards.[96][6]
In February 2015, Bush released several thousand emails from his time as Governor online. Most of the emails are in the public record under Florida's Sunshine Laws. However, Bush created controversy by releasing some emails that included some personal details such as social security numbers, names and addresses, as well as the contents of the messages.[97][98] Bush's campaign team subsequently redacted the personal information.[99]
In May 2015, it was reported that Bush has been raising money since January 2015, estimated to be close to $100 million, for his super PAC, Right to Rise.[100]
Bush is expected to make his campaign announcement on June 15, 2015.[101]
Personal life
In 1970 in León, Mexico, where he was teaching English as part of a foreign exchange program, Bush met Columba Garnica de Gallo.[15] They were married on February 23, 1974, in Austin, Texas.[15][102][103] They reside in Coral Gables, Florida.[104]Bush has three children: George Prescott Bush (born April 24, 1976, in Texas),[105][106] went to Gulliver Preparatory School, studied at Rice University, and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas School of Law. In the 2014 election, he was elected Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office.[105] Noelle Lucila Bush was born July 26, 1977,[citation needed] in Texas. John Ellis Bush, Jr., who attended Bolles School,[15] (born December 13, 1983, in Miami)[citation needed] works for a Miami, Florida commercial real estate firm.
In addition to his three children, Bush has four grandchildren; two through his eldest son, and two through his youngest.[107]
In 1995, Bush converted from Episcopalianism to Roman Catholicism.[108] In 2004, Bush became a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus.[109] Bush, a member of Father Hugon Council 3521 in Tallahassee, joined Father Hugon Assembly.[110]
Civic and charitable activities
After losing a 1994 election for Governor of Florida against Lawton Chiles, Bush pursued policy and charitable interests. He "volunteered time to assist the Miami Children's Hospital, the United Way of Dade County and the Dade County Homeless Trust".[111]Bush served from 2012[112] to 2015 as co-chair of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.[113] He has also worked with The James Madison Institute, a free market public policy think tank based in Tallahassee, Florida. He helped the institute in numerous ways and still has his think tank working in conjunction with it. In June 2008, Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education partnered with JMI to hold a summit called Excellence in Action: A National Summit on Education Reform.[114]
In 1996, The Foundation For Florida's Future published a book that Bush had co-written, Profiles in Character (ISBN 0-9650912-0-1), a clear parallel to John F. Kennedy's 1955 book Profiles in Courage. The foundation also published and distributed policy papers, such as "A New Lease on Learning: Florida's First Charter School", which Bush co-wrote.[115] Bush subsequently wrote the foreword to another book, published by the conservative Heritage Foundation and written by Nina Shokraii Rees, School Choice 2000: What's Happening in the States (ISBN 0-89195-089-3).
Bush co-founded the first charter school in the State of Florida: Liberty City Charter School, a grades K-6 elementary school.[116] in a Miami neighborhood that, in 1980, was the site of the first major race riot since the Civil Rights era.[117] The school's co-founder, working alongside Bush, was T. Willard Fair, a local black activist and head of the Greater Miami Urban League. The Liberty City Charter School was closed in 2008 after falling more than $1 million in debt.[118]
In 2000, Bush established the Points of Light program to recognize an "exemplary volunteer, organization, or person".[119]
Bush is the honorary chairman of the Annual AT&T Jeb Bush Florida Golf Classic, a fundraiser that benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He first became involved in the benefit after meeting with committee member Lawson Dutton, whose child suffered from cystic fibrosis.[120] Supporters raised more than $722,000 in 2014 at the 19th annual Jeb Bush Florida Classic, exceeding their goals in attendance and revenues raised.[121][122] Since the event’s inception 19 years ago, the total revenue netted has reached over $7.478 million.[121]
Electoral history
| Florida gubernatorial election, 1994 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic | Lawton Chiles (incumbent) | 2,135,008 | 51 | ||
| Republican | Jeb Bush | 2,071,068 | 49 | ||
| Florida gubernatorial election, 1998 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Jeb Bush | 2,191,105 | 55 | ||
| Democratic | Buddy MacKay | 1,773,054 | 45 | ||
| Florida gubernatorial election, 2002 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Jeb Bush (incumbent) | 2,856,845 | 56 | ||
| Democratic | Bill McBride | 2,201,427 | 43 | ||
Bibliography
- Bush, Jeb; Yablonski, Brian (1996). Profiles in Character. Foundation for Floridas Future. ISBN 978-0965091206.
- Bolick, Clint, Bush, Jeb. Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2013.
See also
References
- Abraham, Randy. Fundraiser help fight cystic fibrosis Sun Sentinel, December 17, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
Further reading
- Barnes, Fred. "Governor in Chief: Jeb Bush's remarkable eight years of achievement in Florida." The Weekly Standard, June 12, 2006.
- Freedberg, Sydney P. "Jeb Bush: The Son Rises Away from Dad's Shadow." The Miami Herald, August 15, 1994.
- Huffington, Arianna. "The latest Bush hypocrisy". Salon.com, September 16, 2002.
- Viglucci, Andres and Alfonso Chardy. "Bush and business: Fast success, brushes with mystery". The Miami Herald, October 5, 2002.
- Yardley, William. "Jeb Bush: His early values shape his politics." The Miami Herald, September 22, 2002.
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- Profile at Project Vote Smart
- Jeb Bush, On the Issues
- Jeb Bush's file at PolitiFact.com
- Jeb Bush collected news and commentary at the Tampa Bay Times
- Jeb Bush collected news and commentary at The New York Times
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Before the Andover boys and teacher John J. Patrick helped build the two-room schoolhouse in Ibarrilla, outside of León, in their two-month trip in 1971, the village had no school at all—only a local woman who volunteered to teach the children who were interested in learning rudimentary reading and math skills.
Columba Garnica Gallo was 16 and John Ellis "Jeb" Bush was 17 when they met in the central Mexican town of Lewn. Jeb was teaching English and helping to build a school as an exchange student from Phillips Academy, a prestigious prep school in Andover, Mass.
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