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The Spectacle Blog
He may not be running for president (this time around) but former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush remains a key player on the national stage who is widely recognized for advancing innovative policy measures. Bush has also been named as one of four 2011 Bradley Prize award winners.
He will join with other leading figures in the conservative movement to accept the award May 11 at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C.
“Governor Bush has been at the forefront of education reform,” said Michael W. Grebe, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bradley Foundation. “During his administration and since, Florida students have made incredible gains. He has also been a vocal advocate for school choice.”
Prior to entering politics, Jeb Bush co-founded a small real estate development company which grew into the largest full-service commercial real estate firm in South Florida. After he left office, Governor Bush founded the successful consulting business, Jeb Bush and Associates. He currently serves as Chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education.
“Through the Bradley Prizes, we recognize individuals like Jeb Bush, Richard Epstein, Harvey Mansfield and Allan Meltzer who have made outstanding contributions, in hopes that others will strive for excellence in their respective fields,” Mr. Grebe added.
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation was founded in 1985 and is devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it. Its programs support limited, competent government; a dynamic marketplace for economic, cultural activity; and a vigorous defense, at home and abroad, of American ideas and institutions.
The antagonism that exists between Bradley award winners and the proponents of statism from within and without the U.S. has been a major topic of discussion.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, for instance, thanked Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Sen. Chris Dodd, North Korea, Syria and Iran for all they did single him out as a major player in the conservative movement.
“I should note Senators Lincoln Chafee and Senator Dodd who did so much to help make me eligible for this award, and the prominent citizens of Pyongyang, Damascus and Tehran, who also pitched in simply by being themselves.”
Bolton was a 2007 award winner.
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Michael L. Hauschild| 4.10.11 @ 11:07AM
They have gone a long way downhill since 2007. No more RINO's, no more amnesty enablers, no more dynasties, and for God’s sake no more Bush’s we are broke enough now.
Wayne | 4.10.11 @ 12:34PM
There are millions of dedicated teachers who know more in their little fingers about education than Jeb Bush. These are the type of awards that the ruling elites just love. It makes them look so good and so important. I would rather see a Phil Michelson with his Math and Science program for teachers get a reward than the RINO Jeb Bush. This is his nobel peace prize moment.
Chuck| 4.10.11 @ 1:06PM
Watch out, the GOP has a plethora of mediocre, heavily baggaged and daffy candidates to this point. Pure establishment Jeb is waiting in the weeds patiently looking for his moment to enter the fray and win the nomination.
jharp| 4.10.11 @ 1:07PM
Michael L. Hauschild| 4.10.11 @ 11:07AM
"no more amnesty enablers"
Really? No more Ronald Reagans.
Seriously. Wingnut hero extraordinaire excommunicated from the party?
Who da thought?
PattyMor| 4.10.11 @ 1:11PM
Plez no more Bushes. George has forever sullied the Bush name in politics and he was just another big spending politican, albeit with conservative social values.
No, no, no. We need fresh and creative thinkers with the ability to clean up the mess. No more ruling class politicans for President.
Jo| 4.10.11 @ 1:25PM
RINO elites go home!
Katherine Work | 4.10.11 @ 2:47PM
Yes we do need thinkers to bring back what was destroyed, we need a leader that will help our economy and bring out jobs back.
LiveFreeOrDie| 4.10.11 @ 3:23PM
"During his administration and since, Florida students have made incredible gains. He has also been a vocal advocate for school choice."
Gains in what area? I'd like to see some data to support this. Florida is a cesspool and nothing to be proud of. Education statistics for almost all categories in Florida are worse than the national average.
Cpm| 4.10.11 @ 6:33PM
It's funny the kneejerk (mostly jerk) reactions you can get (from both sides) simply by mentioning the name "Bush". Fear, I suspect.
jharp| 4.10.11 @ 7:48PM
Cpm| 4.10.11 @ 6:33PM
"It's funny the kneejerk (mostly jerk) reactions you can get (from both sides) simply by mentioning the name "Bush". Fear, I suspect."
I don't know where you've been the past 10 years but "Bush" just led us into economic ruin and "Bush" is his brother.
I suppose the "fear" you think is the issue is about right. The teabaggers fear Bush could be the GOP nominee and the good guys fear another Bush in office.
Dacron Mather| 4.11.11 @ 1:59AM
Combining as he does the civil libertarian instincts of a Pyongyang alderman, a Teheran chador salesman's concern about freedom of conscience, and a Damascene commitment to American interests in the Levant, Ambassador Bolton seems the beau ideal of a Bradley laureate.
I hope he will use the prize to lease a Chaffee light tank , and take an extended spin though South Asia to collect the hosannas and applause of the grateful native populace.
Gasman| 4.11.11 @ 7:08AM
The Polish people have a word for Mr. Bush it is Balwan. Don't worry it only refers to intelligence.
Ken (Old Texican)| 4.11.11 @ 7:48AM
Kevin,
Thanks for reminding me about Bolton's hilarious irony/joke upon receiving his own Bradley award.
I have a LOT of friends in Florida. Given conditions on the ground there, they think Jeb did a pretty good darned job.
Mr. Bolton plays a significant role in my new novel. www.americaalonesaidno.com
Louis Tully| 4.11.11 @ 8:45AM
Cpm| 4.10.11 @ 6:33PMIt's funny the kneejerk (mostly jerk) reactions you can get (from both sides) simply by mentioning the name "Bush". Fear, I suspect.
Experience, not fear. Once burned, etc...
Derek Leaberry| 4.11.11 @ 10:26AM
The writer admits he's a fraud when he proclaims Jeb Bush a conservative. Jeb Bush is not conservative. His "reform" of that which can not be reformed and should be allowed to wither and die, public education, is not conservative policy. Most importantly, like all the other scoundrels in that family, he is a one-world, open borders polecat.
Hanover| 4.11.11 @ 2:12PM
Louis, we were burned twice by the Bush boys.
Shame on us.
publiced| 4.17.11 @ 2:41PM
Never again!