By Times Staff Writer
Published September 19, 2003
TALLAHASSEE - Call it the mystery session.
He won't say exactly when or much else about it, but Gov. Jeb Bush said Thursday that he might call another special legislative session to spend tax money to lure a company to Florida.
Bush wouldn't name the company. "I can't talk about it. They'll shoot me," Bush joked.
The governor first mentioned the possibility when a reporter questioned him about it on his way into a Cabinet meeting.
Later, at a luncheon at the Governor's Mansion honoring businesses that have diversified the economy, Bush said he is constrained from saying more by confidentiality laws on economic development.
Economic incentives involving the expenditure of tax dollars might need the Legislature's blessing, Bush said, and could not wait until March when the Legislature begins its next regular session.
"There's a window of opportunity in the economic development field. Projects come, and then they go if you don't commit," Bush told reporters. "We're not at the point yet where we need to make a tangible proposal ... but we may get there."
Lawmakers have held one regular and four special sessions this year, their busiest in more than a decade.
