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career in politics began when he aided
his father’s 1988 campaign for the
White House and unsuccessful 1992
bid for re-election.
Riding the wave of economic good
times in Texas, the governor’s admin
istration has attacked taxes, budget and
crime rates. Bush advocated and
signed the two largest tax cuts in state
history, totaling more than $3 billion
in cuts to school property taxes, con
sumer sales taxes and business taxes.
Bush’s appointments to the parole
board have compiled the lowest pa
role approval rate in recorded state
history, with violent offenders serv
ing more than 90 percent of their jail
time and sex offenders remaining in
jail for 100 percent of their sentences.
During his administration, the over
all crime rate has decreased 13 per
cent. The violent juvenile crime rate
has fallen 38 percent during Bush’s
governorship.
The governor signed legislation
that allows law-abiding Texans to
carry a concealed weapon for self-de
fense. He also signed a law provid
ing criminal penalties for parents
who leave a weapon accessible to a
child who causes serious harm with
that gun.
Born in 1946 while his father
was still attending Yale, Bush grew
up in Midland and Houston. He re
ceived a bachelor’s degree from
Yale and a master’s in business ad
ministration from Harvard before
serving as an F-102 pilot for the
Texas Air National Guard.
Bush went on to be a business
man in the oil industry, and in 1989,
he became managing general part
ner of the Texas Rangers.
On March 14, Bush earned
enough delegate support to become
the Republican nominee for presi
dential election.
Bush campaigners said he will take
much of the staunch records of con
servatism and federalism from his
governorship into the White House.
Bush is opposed to abortion and
the Roe vs. Wade decision that con
siders abortion a private matter be
tween a woman and her doctor and
therefore protected from govern
ment regulations.
“America is not ready to ban
abortions,” Bush said in reports on
MSNBC’s election coverage Web
site. But “until America’s hearts
change,” he wants to “put policies
in place ... that reduce abortions.”
Bush’s campaign has empha
sized the needs of education and
pushed for a return to limited gov
ernment, local control, individual
responsibility and stronger families.
In Texas, Bush rewrote the state’s
curriculum to insist on academic ba
sics and strengthen the state’s ac
countability system to measure stu
dent performance so parents and
taxpayers know whether their local
schools are getting the job done.
Reading performance in Texas has
improved. Eighty-eight percent of
third-grade students passed the read
ing portion of the Texas Assessment of
Academic Skills (TAAS) test in 1999,
compared with 76 percent in 1994.
Gay rights are not a strong concern
of Bush. In his Oct. 11 debate with
Democratic presidential nominee
Vice President A1 Gore, Bush said he
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away under the electoral college system,” Cardille said. “If the)* “It's
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then the top five senior candidates
and the top four junior candidates
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“This bill clearly defines the cal
culation of a majority of a vote and
prevents confusion when voting for
more than one candidate such as a
yell leader position,” said Lisa
Schlitzkus, chairwoman of the Rules
and Regulations Committee and a ju
nior political science major.
In other business, the Student Sen
ate passed a resolution in recognition
of Dr. Fred Heath, dean of Universi
ty Libraries. The resolution demon
strates the appreciation of the student
body for Heath’s work in improving
and developing the A&M libraries.
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