Veto Corleone | Jeb Bush

I started with the guiding principle: government should not grow faster than

you reduce taxes for individuals,

and you are frugal as it relates to government spending.

When Jeb bush was elected Governor he made very clear that

it's not our money, it's the taxpayer's money. If your project did meet the principles

that he put forward,

he was going to wack it. The Speaker of the House coined the term

Veto Corleone, because no one was safe from Jeb Bush's veto count.

The spending didn't go through any process that would have made

any Floridian proud, and so that budget discipline was important.

In using the veto over 2,000 times, Jeb Bush

cut two million dollars in earmarks out the budget.

You can do these things. It requires leadership. It requires

rolling up your sleeves and actually trying to fix problems instead of just

talking about it on the sidelines.

He changed the culture here in Tallahassee, and he can change a culture in