Jeb Bush: Arrogance and incompetence accepted in DC

Bush said he liked being called “Veto Corleone” while he vetoed some 2,500 spending items totaling some $2 billion in spending while he was governor.

The first reform of a theoretical Bush administration would be to institute a federal hiring freeze. The plan echoes the one lined out in the budgets of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., which were twice approved by Republicans in the House. “Spending on lobbying has risen by more than 45 percent over the past decade, translating to $12.5 million per member of Congress. Restrain federal spending and bureaucratic meddling, and we’ll disrupt the culture that thrives on big government”.

A Fox News poll conducted July 17 showed Bush trailing reality TV star and millionaire developer Donald Trump, 14 to 18.

The two-term governor’s next significant reform would be to undo the notion of rewarding “longevity instead of performance”.

“Obviously, federal employees should retain civil rights and whistleblower protections”.

He even quoted his own controversial remark from his second inaugural address in 2003, about emptying government buildings of workers and making them “silent monuments to the time when government played a larger role than it deserved or could adequately fill”.

“Just like in the real world, compensation should depend on the type of work, and the quality of the work”, Bush said.

“If you don’t come, you will not be paid for your time”, he said.

“He set the point off in the distance and said that’s where we want to go and this is how we’re going to get there”, said Gus Corbella, a lobbyist with the firm Greenberg Traurig who served as a chief of staff to the state Senate president while Bush was in office.

Bush abolished the state Department of Labor and gave new contracting authority to all his agencies, especially the Department of Management Services. “But what are high standards worth if we don’t apply them to ourselves?” Bush +narrowly lost to Democratic Governor Lawton Chiles.

Bush called the comment “slanderous” on Twitter.

“I took no offense”, Bishop said. “And the bad ones are almost impossible to effectively discipline or remove”.

“Job security is one thing”, he said. Vin Weber, a former congressman turned lobbyist, said he has exchanged emails with Bush and spoken at Bush events.

People who attended the rally at Florida State University’s Augustus B.

In response to IBTimes’ questions about Bush’s relationship with lobbyists, Bush’s campaign spokesperson, Kristy Campbell, said: “Governor Bush has a conservative record of reform, cutting taxes, eliminating government waste, reforming broken government programs and curbing the influence of special interests”. Bush successfully stripped Florida’s 16,000 career managers and supervisors of due process protections by turning them into at-will employees.

“As someone who truly understands the risk of standing up for something, I simply can not express in words how much I value their willingness to stand up against John Kerry”, Bush wrote in a letter dated January 19, 2005. When he was Florida’s governor, Bush referred to state government as “Mount Tallahassee” because he said it was remote from the state’s residents and settled in it ways.