Jeb weighs in on ballot: Vote Yes for kids

Breaking his silence on a local election issue, former Gov. Jeb Bush is urging voters in a 30-second TV ad to Vote Yes on the Miami-Dade primary ballot to continue the publicly-financed Children's Trust.

"The Children's Trust has improved the quality of life of thousands and thousands of children and families in our county,'' Bush says in the Spanish language ad. The trust is a special taxing district that uses about $100 million a year in property taxes to finance 300 programs and agencies designed to help underserved children in Miami Dade County.

In the ad, the anti-tax governor also attempts to assure doubters that the money is used wisely.  "The Children's Trust has been efficiently and honestly administered,'' he says. "Not one dollar has been misspent. The Children's Trust has won our trust. Now it deserves our support.''