Tell Us About The governor of Your State

Let me introduce the world to John Lynch, a spinless federal parroting puss-@$$. Now serving his second term after succeeding the the last even worse, Jean Shaheen (now u.s senator), a cambirge born snooty flatlaner who does NOT represent New hampshire, (note to Jean: if your going to have you hausband campaign for you in front of Shaw's supermarket, make sure he can answer my questions in an intelligent manner please). Lynch is more a puppet than a governor as he pretty much rubber stamps what ever the national flavor of the day may be. TO his credit, he has, along with the NH state legislature, refused REAL ID compliance, at least for the time and he has claimed to refuse to sign an income or state sales tax, at least so far, however, with our school budget now hundreds of feet deep in the toilet, it looks more like he may bend to those states that surround us that have been complaining about our lack of sales tax and "stealing" their businsess, there was even an official from Massichusits years ago taking licence plate numbers in a nh state liquer store parking lot and trying to extract tax from Mass residents who purchased liquer in NH, he was subsiquently arrested by NH state police for doing so on his next trip over the border. Why do I mention all this? Because Lynch has no spine and seems more and more willing to cave to national pressure than to stand up for his state. I wrote a while ago to him, with complaints about border patrol checkpoints in the middle of the state, 75 miles from any border, as well as the potential use of u.s. troops on u.s. soil and demanded he stand up and refuse such action with in the state, his response, "this isn't a matter for me, it's a federal issue". Yeh. Thanks john, way to show some back bone, NOT.

i live in india. here we have slightly different. here the governers are like the kings whose names are used to run the states. all the other things are done by the ministers led by chief minister.all the ministers are eleceted by the people through general voting once in 5 years. then all the elected people chose their leader and then he becomes the chief minster. then chief minster distibutes the departments to the able elected persons and they are called the ministers of the respective department. aqll the development works are taken care of ministers and the Cm. so it is more transparent here. where people come to know everything that they getting from their eleceted persons. we have our chief minister for last 3 terms as hes very popular for his principles and development of the state.

Our governor is a phony butthead! I use to think he was an alright guy, then one day I was in a grocery store in line waiting my turn to check out while seeing family after family use their food stamp card and WIC vouchers when all of a sudden there was a commotion behind me, it was our governor with several press men taking pictures of (only good looking, well to do middle aged people with FULL, well stocked shopping carts). He got into several pictures with his arms around the people too. BUT before the pictures were taken, he put lots of expensive packages of meat on top of the people's full carts of groceries and after the pictures were taken, his press men took the meat out of the carts and put it back on the shelves. The next day the pictures were on the front page of our daily newspaper saying things like: How great our economy is now and how we are all prospering with better jobs and making bigger saleries and much bigger pay checks! God, what a phony he was!

Virginia's gover is Tim Kaine, a Democrat. His first term ends this year. In, Virginia, the governor can't have two terms in a row, so we'll have a new sone in November. He has an approval rating of 58%, which is much lower than the 77% it was in 2006. I think he's doing a good job, though.

I live in Illinois.... do I really have to go on? Just check CNN or Fox News 24 hrs a day.

Ed Rendell looks like is doing a good job for your state, we all know that you could use it. Our govenor here in Ohio is alot like Ed, left with a huge deficit, an economy that based around manufacturing, and boarding a state in a recession. I sure wouldn't want his job right now. I think our govenor is doing a good job.

King Doyle (Governor of Wisconsin) is a thief, a liar and a tyrant. He is bought and paid for by the thugs in the Education Union and is a good little puppet for them. To spit on the little dictator would be a terrible insult... to the spit.

As you know, I'm also from Pennsylvania and I wish we could keep Rendell for longer than we can! No offense to those here from Alaska, but whenever I read about how Sarah Palin is the "most popular Governor in the U.S." I have to shake my head. I don't mind one bit that Rendell now and then sticks both feet in his mouth. It helps to show he's the real deal, not scripted and rehearsed all the time. Annie

How lucky you are. I lived in Pennsylvania for about a year when I first came to the USA. I now live in Illinois and I am sure you as most of the country has have heard about the crook we currently have for Governor. They are expecting a quick vote to impeach him and then hopefully he will be gone and he can concentrate on the Federal charges that are most likely going to put him behind bars. It would be pointless for me to go into everything I know about this nasty little man because you can find out plenty about him in the news section of MyLot.

Good question: I had to research some before I could respond to this question. The governor of the state I currently live in is Arnold Schwartzenegger. He is best known for his action movies, all of which were big box office hits but didn't really lend credence to his acting ability. (I don't know how this experience led people to believe he could govern one of the largest states in the US, but who knows...) He is married to one of my favorite news journalists and Kennedys, Maria Schriver. I have admired her from afar for a while. As far as his governing ability that is a loaded question. He's a Republican, re-elected in a strong blue state so that says something about his ability to work with a diverse group of people. Our state is currently in a position to run out of money in a couple of months. Although this is not totally Schwartzeneggers doing he has to shoulder some of the blame for the discord and fracticious nature between the governor's office and the California legislature. It has been stated that the left and right of the Democrats are not speaking to each other and the left and right of the Republicans are not speaking to each other, so forget about the Republicans and Democrats speaking to each other...Needless to say the state is gridlock with neither side willing to give or move forward. When they finally came up with a budget, Schwartzenegger rejected it and refused to sign it into law. Now we are in another long holding pattern. There are no easy answers. The housing crisis has hit California worse than other states. Home sales both new and old were the top money making business; now that that industry has gone into toilet the state has to look for new ways to pay it's bills. Our budget is larger than many smaller countries so there will be no easy solutions, especially since our governor cannot seem to facilitate communications between the groups governing the state. Raising taxes in a time where many are struggling to pay their bills is not wise either; cutting services to vulnerable people is unacceptable as well. I believe a total overhaul of state government and services is necessary to really work through this crisis, but I don't know if that is even an option at this point. There are many services given here that my former state of Michigan cut out quite successfully years ago. I don't know - good question!!

I live in the state of New Jersey. Our governor, Governor Corzine was in the news for a while, after he was in a automobile accident on the Garden State Parkway. He was banged up pretty bad, his driver was speeding, and the governor did not have on a seat belt. I think the driver was on a cell phone as well. Everything we are told not to do while driving.

Hi,i come from China. Here i want to say about my geography teacher in my middle school,now she is a senior official (as a vice-governor in America)in one province of my country. She had taught in different schools for 22 years.Suddenly she left the school and became the general secretary of the district committee in 1997.And then became a vice-mayor,mayor,and so on. I had found that she was good at speech.She often introduced geographical advantage of the world's and pointed out which was suitable to be developed about some countries.No doubt,politics is the good place for her.