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  • Regier 'crisis' falters when facts known [Anti-Jeb writer matures; defends Jeb's new DCF chief!]

    08/20/2002 6:44:46 AM PDT · by summer · 89 replies · 593+ views
    The Orlando Sentinel ^ | August 20, 2002 | Mike Thomas
    Tuesday, August 20, 2002 SENTINEL COLUMNIST Mike Thomas Regier 'crisis' falters when facts known Published August 20, 2002 The attacks against Jeb Bush's choice to head the state's child-welfare department, Jerry Regier, show what you get by mixing an incomplete news story and nasty politics. Excerpt: It began last week when The Miami Herald wrote this story: The man named Thursday by Gov. Jeb Bush to head Florida's notoriously inept child welfare agency is an evangelical Christian who views spanking that causes "bruises or welts" as acceptable punishment….. All the ingredients were present for a juicy controversy. There was a...
  • FL newspapers finding it tougher to criticize Jeb on education

    06/18/2002 6:30:37 AM PDT · by summer · 72 replies · 1,131+ views
    Orlando Sentinel; Miami Herald; St. Petersburg Times | June 18, 2002 | summer and others
    FL's Education Governor: Jeb Bush. FL newspapers finding it tougher to criticize Jeb on education By summer -- a former Dem, now an independent, and a FL certified teacher Change in FL often seems to happen this way: Gov. Jeb Bush announces some major new plan. Shortly thereafter, his political opponents claim the entire state will immediately collapse if such plan becomes law; his plan does become law; the state does not collapse; and howls of protest follow. Eventually - slowly but surely -- you start to hear positive aspects of his plan promoted by the very ones who previously...