Comments on: California’s New Lieutenant Governor

By: Steve Rankin

Steve Rankin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:40:25 +0000

Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution makes the VP the president of the Senate.

Article II, Section 1 mentions the VP when discussing executive power, since the VP is first in the line of presidential succession.

The 12th Amendment provides for the presidential electors to elect the president and the VP distinctly. The party system is the reason candidates for the two offices run on tickets.

By: Jim Riley

Jim Riley — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:29:03 +0000

The Lieutenant Governor in Texas presides over the Senate, and while it is in session is paid like a legislature. It wasn’t until after WWII that the VP was really considered part of the executive branch.

It is pretty much an accident that the USA have a President and VP elected on the same ticket.

By: Steve Rankin

Steve Rankin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:26:26 +0000

#4: That sounds like the U. S. vice president, who is hand-picked by the president, and who is a heartbeat away from the most powerful office in the world.

Vice presidents, of course, rarely actually preside over the Senate.

Several states, to be sure, don’t have lieutenant governors.

In Tennessee, the lt. governor is chosen by the state Senate. The Democrat John Wilder held the office for many years, until recently.

For years, Louisiana had a tradition of every gubernatorial candidate picking a running mate for lieutenant governor, and the running mate of the winning gubernatorial candidate was elected lt. governor. This system went by the boards in 1964, however; John McKeithen was elected governor, but the incumbent lt. governor defeated McKeithen’s running mate.

I like the idea of the governor and lt. governor running on a ticket, like the president and vice president. It especially does not make sense for the governor and lt. governor to be from different parties. But I’m certain that most of the people of my state would be strongly opposed to taking away their power to elect those two officials separately.

In Mississippi, sitting lieutenant governors are jinxed when it comes to getting elected governor. Since 1919, only two incumbent lieutenant governors have won the governor’s race, although lots of them have tried.

By: Jim Riley

Jim Riley — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:48:44 +0000

You find it strange that the presiding officer of one of the houses of the legislature is not directly tied to the executive?

By: Rationality and Science Education

Rationality and Science Education — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:08:45 +0000

As much as I HATE my former ally Der Schwartzen Faker and also Kiddie Porn King Wade Sanders’ patron John Garamendi I have always found states that elect Governors and Lieutenant Governors separately really strange and illogical …………

Don Lake, Citizens For AQ Better Veterans Home

By: Phil Sawyer

Phil Sawyer — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:04:43 +0000

He is not going to win anyway. In California, the Republican Party is almost a minor party already.

By: Steve Rankin

Steve Rankin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:46:49 +0000

Maldonado, a nominal Republican, likely favors the “top two” monstrosity because, when he runs statewide, he wants non-Republicans to be able to vote for him in the first round (independents, of course, are now permitted to vote in the Republican, Democratic, and American Independent Party primaries).

Maldonado is a less expensive prostitute than Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.

Maldonado’s Revenge continues…