Word: jeb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...down in Florida, Jeb Bush was rigging ice machines." --DAVID LETTERMAN...
Meanwhile, he touched all the Republican bases but didn't slide in hard. He occasionally took part in meetings of the Federalist Society, an influential conservative legal organization based in Washington, but never got around to joining. He helped advise Governor Jeb Bush during the 2000 Florida recount but never went on TV. "Most people get places in this city with political connections, financial connections or by persistent and unstopping self-promotion," says Lazarus. "But that's not John." Even his wife's brand of political activism came with a group heterogeneously called Feminists for Life...
...first by begging retired General Tommy Franks to enter the race and--after he turned them down--courting someone with almost zero name recognition, Florida house speaker Allan Bense, to run against Harris, who is now in her second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Florida Governor Jeb Bush has made several recruiting calls to Bense, who headed to Washington last week where he was serenaded by a powerful trio--the President's top political adviser Karl Rove, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman and Elizabeth Dole, who heads the Senate committee for recruiting G.O.P. candidates...
...before she was allowed to die in March. The autopsy, vindicating Michael, showed her damage was irreversible, she had gone blind, and her brain had shrunk to half its normal size. Case closed, right? Not yet. Though the autopsy quieted even some of Michael's G.O.P. opponents, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who tried to keep Terri alive, said that because of "new information" not addressed in the autopsy, he has requested a probe into whether Michael delayed calling 911 when Terri collapsed in 1990 from still undetermined causes. --By Harriet Barovick
...something fundamentally un-American-and very European-about the Clintons and the Bushes trading the office every eight years, with stale, familiar corps of retainers, supporters and enemies. Bill Clinton was a good President. Hillary Clinton is a good Senator. But enough already. (And that goes for you too, Jeb...