Notes For Thursday, October 17, 2002
From today's "The Note", from ABC, "McBride, whose quest to unseat the president's brother on Nov. 5 is gaining increasing attention across the nation, heads to Washington tonight for a fundraiser at the home of Georgetown socialite Elizabeth Bagley. Friday, he will collect more of the unregulated, unlimited contributions known as 'soft money' at a breakfast with former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey and a lunch with former President Bill Clinton."The National Media Is Waking Up: Washington Post writer David Von Drehle has a lengthy piece on McBride: "In Fla., McBride Is Down-Home, Up in the Polls". Howard Kurtz writes today that there is "A Bush On the Defensive", and notes that even John Ellis Bush's cousin, "John Ellis the former Fox News analyst, isn't optimistic". This on top of Howard Fineman's "Can Bush Resuciate Little Brother", among other articles, shows increasing national media interest in the Florida race. 9:29 AM [Go to current Florida Politics site (no popup ads)]
Give Him a Break, He's Not Dead Yet: Howard Fineman's mini-political bio of Jeb Bush reads like a funeral eulogy. The piece, titled "Can Bush Resuscitate Little Brother?", describes Mcbride as the Democrats' "dream candidate". 6:04 AM [Go to current Florida Politics site (no popup ads)]
Judicial Watch, a conservative "watchdog" group, sues Jeb Bush for alleged failure to turn over documents about DCF and Cuba. In its press release, Judicial Watch claims it is seeking to expose "hipocrisy" in that "[t]he Bush Brothers have long talked about strengthening restrictions on Cuba, yet both have looked the other way as U.S. agribusiness corporations, many of them big campaign contributors, sell millions of dollars worth of food to Communist Dictator and terrorist Fidel Castro." 5:51 AM [Go to current Florida Politics site (no popup ads)]