Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Early exit from 2006 Governor's race Lawton "Bud" Chiles III quits governor's race (Tallahassee Democrat) Lawton "Bud" Chiles III quit the 2006 governor's race today, citing a provision in the state constitution that requires a gubernatorial candidate to live in the state for the seven years before an election. A recent Quinnipac poll had him as the choice of 29% of Florida Democrats (behind only Betty Castor). Politics comment []5:20:54 PM   trackback []

Schwarzenegger tops Cato Institute's Fiscal Policy Report Card From the Cato Institute: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger earned the highest score on the Cato Institute’s seventh biennial fiscal policy report card released today. The report card grades 42 governors on 15 objective fiscal measures, and shows that states that keep tax rates low and restrain spending growth have the best economic performance and long term fiscal health. Jeb Bush had the third highest score of the 'senior class' (Governor's innaugurated before January 2003, who are a graded on a seperate basis from the 'freshman' innaugurated after). The co-author of the report, Steven Slivinski, received his bachelor's degree from Florida State.  While here he was the director of the Institute for Conservative Studies and was involved in other such mischief. Politics comment []3:17:33 PM   trackback []