Bush slices funds from hospitals, Metrorail (Jeb)

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sat, May. 29, 2004


Bush slices funds from hospitals, Metrorail

Gov. Jeb Bush slashed nearly $350 million in spending from the state's $58 billion budget, including millions intended for Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

By GARY FINEOUT

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TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush approved a nearly $58 billion state budget Friday for the coming year, but not before he slashed like never before, vetoing a record $350 million in spending.

From a budget dominated by standing priorities such as education and health, Bush sliced less than 1 percent -- still the most he has vetoed. The deleted items ranged widely, from breast cancer research at the University of Miami to hometown projects for powerful legislators such as Senate President Jim King and House Speaker Johnnie Byrd.

Bush also cut nearly $21 million intended for the state's trauma centers that was included in a separate bill. Of that, $3 million would have gone to three South Florida hospitals. And he said he would veto $7 million for a proposed pre-kindergarten summer pilot program that would have included Miami-Dade County.

The largest item Bush vetoed: $56.3 million that legislators set aside to increase payment rates to health maintenance organizations that treat Medicaid patients.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/8789884.htm
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The guy with Bush is Rodolpho Frometa, Cuban "exile:"

Rudolfo Frometa poisoned cattle and burned Cuban cane fields in the early sixties for Alpha 66, a U.S. based terrorist group. In 1994, the US Coast Guard caught him in a boat heading for Cuba filled with guns and ammunition. No charges were filed. But something had to be done later that year when he bought Stinger antiaircraft rockets, anti-tank rockets, and a rocket launcher from an undercover FBI agent. He later gained an early release from jail on the condition that he not stray far from Miami. But in 1999 he was boasting to the Miami media that his "F-4 Commando" group was bombing buses, trains, cigar factories in Cuba and a year later burning down taxi and bus terminals. (snip)
http://www.letcubalive.org/TERRORS2.htm

[dusty64]

1. How much did the super rich

get in tax cuts and how many corporate giveaways to rethug donors were in this shitty budget?