<p>Are their any popular executives serving in our country? What kind of approval rating do they get. I know in Sacramento our Mayor seems unchallengeable. How is it in your neck of the woods?</p>
<p>My governor is pretty well liked. I live in North Dakota by the way. Our mayor is liked, but usually only one person runs for mayor so there is no competition.</p>
<p>Is there anything in particular that your governor has done to win favor with the voters?</p>
<p>No. There aren’t too many people happy with Bob Taft (some distant relation to the president of the same last name). I’m sure if we had recall in Ohio, it would have at least got tossed around a few times.</p>
<p>anybody looks good compared to our last governor, who is now in prison…</p>
<p>I live in California, our Governor might not get his wife’s vote the next time out, but I was looking for success. There have to be more popular governors out there.</p>
<p>hmm mayor? Superintendent? county exec? governor?
well we are prtty happy with our districts congressman ( Jim McDermott)</p>
<p>We have a very recently embarrassed Governor! He has been Governor for almost a year, and this was definitely the biggest headline about him to date. (He is also a Democrat in a historically Republican State.)</p>
<p>Saturday, September 17, 2005
Lynch’s daughter arrested at UNH on alcohol charges</p>
<p>By BRUNO MATARAZZO Jr.
Democrat Staff Writer</p>
<p>DURHAM The daughter of New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch was arrested on the University of New Hampshire campus Friday on two alcohol-related charges, according to university police.</p>
<p>Another embarassed governor (or, maybe not):</p>
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<p>Mr. B- with Arnold as our governor, how could you start this thread -LOL</p>
<p>Even though they’re not my governor or mayor, Bianco and Nagin certainly have to be considered two shining lights.</p>
<p>Huckabee (Arkansas Gov.) does a good job. He’s popular with almost everyone here.</p>
<p>I know this is not totally fair as it is our previous governor, but Gov. Dean was well liked here in Vermont.</p>
<p>We do not have a mayor in our town, just a selectboard.
Susan</p>
<p>Yeah what Celebrian said about Gov Taft is very true. This guy is like a total idiot. He is against casino gambling and anything that would make the state money. I lean pretty right and even I didn’t vote for this buffoon last time around. As for Queen Jane Campbell, the mayor of Cleveland, she is doing the best with what she can, but when she came out against tailgating in late 2001 after bottle gate, she ticked off a lot of Browns fans. The problem is that noone else qualified with name recognition is running for mayor, so she will be reelected.</p>
<p>Mr. B–the Sac Bee reported Thursday that Arnie’s popularity is at an all-time low–40%. I don’t think it will be only Maria who won’t be voting for the clever “actor” next time around…</p>
<p>I’m from New Jersey … 'nuff said.</p>
<p>Now it has come out that the party in control of the state legislature and governor’s mansion is doling out homeland security funds only to legislative districts who’s representatives are from that party. I guess it’s part of the strategy to assure control for the long term - let the rest of us get killed.</p>
<p>We (surprisingly) have a very popular governor and lieutenant governor here in Maryland. The local rag hates them, but I think their constant hit pieces are only increasing his support.</p>
<p>I think our out-going Governor, Mark Warner (D), is pretty well regarded by the voters of Virginia. I know I’m pretty happy with him, and wish he could be elected to a second term. But we have this head-scratchingly stupid law in Virginia: Governors can only serve one term. What’ s with that?! If a Gov. is doing a good job, the voters should have the option of re-electing him so that he (or she—though we’ve yet to elect a woman governor) can continue a good work. Instead, we have to put up with the smear ads of the two bozos currently running neck and neck for the job.</p>
<p>Expanding the list to include Senators, and to go back a bit in history, I always felt we experienced the Golden Age of Representation here in Maine when we had George Mitchell (D) and Bill Cohen (R) representing us simultaneously. Thoughtful, intelligent, marked by integrity, respected all around. I particularly rememember hearing their speeches on NPR re their votes on Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court nomination. Made me proud.</p>
<p>PA has Ed Rendell who was a very popular Mayor of Philadelphia and is currently Governor. He is slightly less popular as Governor than during his days as Mayor. Politics aside, I like his style…how many governors are so passionate about their team that they do televised pre and post football game coverage? He is a character.</p>