No.
He was a placeholder. Keeping the chair warm. The general economy was good by itself; he just needed to not screw things up; not start any new wild programs; not cause state residents to panic about their future.
Know why we didn't want to see Shrub III in there? His CONTEMPT for conservatives! Open Borders. Going around those yukky Teabaggers. Have you forgotten that Shrub favored Core Curriculum in Florida?
He didn't screw up Florida much but he was a Big Government RINO the whole way. And he wanted to win by SUBVERTING OUR WISHES.
You think we like being regarded by contempt by an Elite who wants to flood this nation with people who don't speak like us, don't live like us, don't love liberty as we do? Turn this nation into a hybrid of Mexico, El Salvador and Venezuela?
THAT IS WHY WE HAVE HAD ALL THE SHRUB WE CAN STAND.
You're an ignorant individual.
People like you are the reason why we're in the mess we're in.
Jeb is pro-life.
Jed is pro 2A.
Jeb cut taxes in Florida more times than any other Governor, including first a reduction and then a repeal of the state's tax on personal assets such as investments, a rollback of a school property tax, a bigger property tax break for veterans, and a property tax exemption for child
care facilities. Jeb cut taxes every year that he was a Governor.
He reduced the size of government by reducing the government workforce by 13,000+ workers, with most of those jobs being either privatized, or cut altogether.
Jeb led the nation in the fight for school choice, and won. Florida's first-in-the-nation school choice program set the standard for school choice for the rest of the States. Jeb fought and defeated the unions and administrators that wanted to keep the status quo in place, and because of Jeb's fight Florida students benefited.
How did Jeb's governorship impact education in Florida?
-- In 1998, Florida’s fourth-graders scored at the bottom nationally in NAEP scores in reading and math. By 2009, they had scored above the national average in both categories.
-- Florida’s fourth-grade Hispanic students equaled or surpassed the performance of all students in 31 states.
-- Fourth-grade African American students in Florida outperform African American students in all but three states in NAEP math tests.
-- Low-income Florida elementary school students of all races rank near the top nationally in math.
-- High school graduation rates increased 21 percent, even as the requirements got tougher.
-- The number of African American and Latino students passing AP tests increased 365 percent.
Jeb is stridently pro life . In fact, on the issue of abortion, Jeb has the most conservative record of all candidates vying for the Republican nomination in 2016.
Jeb signed into law was legislation requiring that parents be notified before a minor's abortion, a bill prohibiting partial-birth abortion and a bill regulating the safety of abortion centers. Bush also championed "Choose Life" specialty license plates, the proceeds from which went to pro-life pregnancy centers in the state.
Bush opposed a ballot initiative that would have amended the state's constitution to provide $200 million over 10 years for embryonic stem cell research. And he pushed through a parental consent measure for contraception in school-based health centers. He also expanded funding for abstinence education.