Freudian Slip - The Washington Post, in "Gov. Bush, Sharing Load With DNC", reports that Governor Bush received a letter from a student doing research on the electoral college and how it worked. In response, Bush - apparently unable to explain how the electoral college works - referred the student (mistakeny it turns out) to the Democratic National Committee of all places. Read the piece and see what Terry McAuliffe had to say.
Doesn't Regier Have Better Things To Do? - "Yet while . . . children were being left to die in the hands of unfit guardians chosen by the DCF, the agency's secretary, Jerry Regier, was mounting a witch hunt to fire six competent DCF employees because the grandmother of state Sen. Rudy Garcia wasn't immediately escorted to the front of the line to receive her welfare benefits at a service center in Hialeah. Regier claims the six were fired because the center's receptionist was rude to Garcia's aide -- who had driven Garcia's grandmother to the office. Regier's rationale for firing these six workers is nonsense. They were fired because Garcia's grandmother wasn't given preferential treatment and because Garcia sits on the committee that determines the budget for Regier's agency". See "Enough of DCF's'isolated' incidents".
The New York Times Weighs In On The Everglades - "The most ambitious environmental rescue operation ever tried in this country — a $7.8 billion plan to restore the Everglades — is suddenly at risk. The reason is that one of the major players in the enterprise, Florida's politically connected sugar cane industry, wants to postpone into the distant future the deadline for cleaning up the polluted water flowing into the Everglades. And the Florida Legislature is poised to let the industry do it. This could mean serious trouble for an already fragile ecosystem. It would also violate the spirit of the federal-state partnership underlying the project and threaten the revenue stream on which it depends."
"[O]n this issue [Bush] and his chief environmental adviser, David Struhs, have been disturbingly ambiguous. They insist (as do the sugar companies) that all they really want is flexibility in order to avoid endless lawsuits if they miss the 2006 deadline. But 20 years of "flexibility" is absurd. And even if modest variations on the original plan are found to be necessary, they should be transparently negotiated by all the stakeholders." See "Everglades in Peril".
Those Wacky College Kids - "Alex Schraff, a senior majoring in international economics, launched a phone-bank, radio and Internet campaign earlier this week, accusing some of the state's highest-ranking Republicans of devastating student financial aid while preserving their own pork-barrel spending. He has kept his political speech inflammatory and his donors secret -- drawing a full-court press by the media to find his money source and some ominous responses from House Republican leaders."