As governor, Bush issued of hundreds of millions of dollars in local projects from the state budget.
He also downsized the state workforce, outsourcing functions such as human resources and state purchasing. He favored three-strikes legislation for repeat offenders, and pushed to limit appeals for death-row inmates.
In 2005, he signed the 鈥淪tand Your Ground鈥� law. But after the Trayvon Martin incident of 2012, in which an unarmed black teen was shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, , "This law does not apply to this particular circumstance.鈥�
