Reply #9: And here is the famous Jeb Bush "devious plans" threat, revisited.

[seafan]

Another snip from the Post article"

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Last year, Bush suffered a defeat in the Senate when he insisted on a floor vote on a plan to trade the class-size limits for higher teacher salaries. The proposal cleared the House with the needed three-fifths majority, and Bush needed 24 of the 26 Republicans to support him in the Senate. Only 19 did so, and two of them said they would have preferred to vote "no" but felt pressured to support the governor.


In 2002, Bush campaigned nearly as hard against the amendment as he did against McBride. A month before the election, a reporter recorded his remark to Panhandle legislators that he had "devious plans" for the amendment if it passed — a comment that likely hurt his efforts to repeal it the past three years.

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So, Jeb has threatened us with his devious plans, he tried dangling the promise of increased teacher salaries in return for gutting the amendment and now he wants to force the schools to spend money on tangible things inside classrooms rather than implementing what Florida voters have said they wanted in the first place.

Some days, it is just too much. January, 2007 cannot come soon enough.