[summer]

McLawyer really was telling lies.

The "Liberty City" lie is one I caught, as McLawyer surely knows that area, near Miami, is where Gov Jeb Bush and a local black leader together co-founded the state's first charter school. So for McLawyer to then say in his closing statement, "Oh, gee, I happened to be in Liberty City and those kids never get any help," or however he put it, was very disingenuous.

Also, according to reliable sources, there was no "$3 billion surplus" left over from Gov Lawton Chiles as McLawyer stated. Because I wanted to know: If there was, then, why didn't Dem gov Chiles use that surplus to make teacher salaries #1 in the nation? Answer: Because there actually was no such surplus. (But, McLawyer could not stand to let people think Gov Bush had actually increased the state's education budget to keep up with the growing population.)

[floriduh voter]

Yes, I recalled from one of Jeb's bios that he started out helping the poor who were part of the Mariel boat lift. Back then, I worked for HRS and our case workers had to leave Tampa Bay and go down to Liberty City to assist families from the boat lift in S. Florida.

For McLawyer to suggest that dropping by and taking a photo op with a few hand picked, underprivileged kids is the moral equivalent of what Jeb did as a young man to help others, shows that he hasn't studied up on his opponent, Governor Bush and that the FEA Lady has only drilled him regarding Education Issues.

Or, he was just being smarmy at the end - no respect for the office that McLawyer thinks he's qualified for. Not in a million years!