Not Everyone Thinks The Session Was A Joke - "Telephone companies and Big Sugar are toasting a successful legislative season, even as many others involved consider the 60-day marathon a waste of time. From the latest Legislative session emerged the newest evidence for critics to suggest that money wins in Florida's capital.". See "Capital win for Big Sugar, phone companies".
"Political Relativity" - "Gov. Jeb Bush is so fond of the school bonus checks he presents at press conferences each year that he has threatened to veto the entire budget if they are eliminated, and he has invented a new standard to measure them. The standard is one of political relativity . . .." See "Random recognition".
Pithy - Mike Thomas writes that "Florida's Republican leaders couldn't be more embarrassing if they were preschoolers squabbling over a Bitty Baby. And this is despite having more control in Florida than the Baath Party had in Iraq. I'll put it this way: Name a Democrat in Tallahassee. But after two months, the R-Men can agree only on two things: One is to jack up our phone rates, and the second is to let sugar growers dump more crud in the Everglades. The things we can be sure they won't do are what they promised to do -- or what we asked them to do."
"Jeb promised to implement the class-size amendment during the campaign, then announced his intention to repeal it after being re-elected. Jeb also backtracked on his opposition to the phone increases and his vow to clean the Everglades."
"House Speaker Byrd, a recent Alabama immigrant, could not care less about the state's needs. He is in this for his political career. His 13-member communications staff is little more than a taxpayer-funded $600,000 campaign staff to get him to Washington." 6:30 AM
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