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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (18280)	2/12/2001 4:27:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 24042

OT/OT/Gov.Gray Davis of Calif. received an "F" grade from Cato February 12, 2001 WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bush was awarded a "B" grade by the Cato Institute for his fiscal performance while serving as governor of Texas. Under Cato's critieria, governors who cut taxes and spending received the highest grades and those who raised taxes and spending received the lowest grades. The survey covers recent as well as sitting governors. Only two governors, Republicans Paul Cellucci of Massachusetts and Kenny Guinn of Nevada, received "A" grades from Cato, a conservative Washington, D.C., think-tank, while three Democratic governors received "F's" -Gray Davis of California, John Kitzhaber of Oregon and Tom Vilsack of Iowa. Overall, 16 governors received a "B" and 16 received a "C." Among those getting "B's" were New York Gov. George Pataki and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, both Republicans, Gary Locke of Washington, a Democrat, and Jesse Venture of Minnesota, an independent. Three governors were excluded for "methodological reasons." "Contrary to expectations," Cato said, "the average grade for Republicans is only slightly higher than for Democrats." Cato Senior Fellow Stephen Moore and Fiscal Policy Analyst Stephen Slivinski, authors of the report, said: "The Republican governors are touted as the GOP's policy stars, but our report card suggests that, although there are a number of tax-cutting fiscal conservatives among the group, are too many of those top state executives have become big-government Republicans." The study cited "a clear trend toward more spending at the state level since our last report card in 1998." It said the states are now spending roughly $630 (adjusted for inflation) more per person than they did in 1990. =============================== Message 15339205 " they ( CA ) have a mentally retarded government ",/B> TA