If the ERA is "Retro" Governor, You're Neo-Reactionary - "A national coalition of women's groups is hoping to make Florida a key battleground to renew the Equal Rights Amendment struggle, but Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday made it clear he has no interest in helping. Bush poked fun at the ERA movement, deriding it as ''kind of a retro subject'' during a question-and-answer session with reporters. 'It's like going back and wearing bell bottoms,'' chuckled Bush . . .." [Note: someone ought to let the Gov. in on the fact that "wearing bell bottoms" is, ahem, again in vogue].
GOP Robots - "Horne and his boss, Gov. Jeb Bush, refuse to accept that voters decided in November to restore a university structure Bush had precipitously dismantled. The Constitution now calls for a separate, appointed Board of Governors, much like the old Board of Regents, to 'operate, regulate, control, and be fully responsible for the management of the whole university system.' No single job of that board is more important than the selection of a chancellor. Yet board members, all appointed by Bush, have obediently ceded their authority in that regard." See "Commissioner Horne's kingdom".
Jim King - The Orlando Sentinel editorial board on "Mr. King's gamble".
Phoney GOP "Live-Within-Your-Means Mantra" - "County leaders from throughout Florida lashed out at Gov. Jeb Bush's spending plan and the House budget proposal on Wednesday, saying the live-within-your-means mantra repeated by Republican leadership is really a shell game that shifts taxes from the state to counties." See "Counties say state shifting service costs onto them".