It sometimes seems Republicans have fewer differences with Democrats than with one another.

Tuesday’s campaign swing was designed to inject some of Jeb Bush’s political celebrity into George P. Bush’s campaign for an office.

The former governor of Florida is at odds with the Republican Party on immigration and education, among other things.

Standing in front of nearly 1,000 of the state’s top business leaders and GOP political influencers is likely not Gov. Mark Dayton’s favorite place to be. The Democratic governor has been at odds with business groups since he first ran for election in 2010, when they sunk millions into trying to defeat him.

Gov. Mark Dayton struck a cordial tone at the Minnesota Business Partnership annual dinner Monday night, focusing the conversation on job creation, eduction reform and other issues where the liberal governor has found common ground with the state's business leaders.

With newly installed Republican majorities in the House and Senate, K-12 education reform became the subject of intense debate this year, a struggle that began in the regular session and continued until just hours before the Legislature convened to pass the package of budget bills that ended the shutdown in July.

Bush, who was governor of Florida from 1999 until 2007, focused heavily on public school education reform during his time in office, namely using a test (the FCAT) to grade schools and determine funding. The test also will now be used in decisions about teacher pay and retention.