He won the new governor's trust, Pataki told me, because the Governor valued Rubenstein's "wisdom and experience" and saw him as a man who kept confidences.
Mr. Bush also reported a health-savings account worth up to $15,000 and a 401(k) retirement plan from his days as Texas governor valued at up to $250,000.
Given what this Governor valued and who he appointed to power, it makes sense that they favored one over the other when they were in conflict.
So much for the governor's "values".
Do we want a Governor who values his own spending over the state budget?
Governors overwhelmingly valued the support of their local authority and the way it helped them collaborate with other schools in the community, Knights added.
On the evidence in "The Real Romney," Romney has (or at least had through the first half of his term as governor) kept his values as a businessman and politician in a separate compartment from his values as a leader of his ultraconservative church.
"Above all, I felt the person I appoint to the remaining two years of my term should be someone who shares my basic philosophy, my values," Governor Murkowski told reporters at a news conference in Anchorage.
Take two weeks ago, when Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, followed his introduction of the governor at the Values Voter Summit in Washington by telling reporters that he considered the Mormon Church to be a cult and didn't think Mitt Romney was a Christian.
Alabama only makes the news when oak trees are poisoned because of a football rivalry, when a "family values" governor resigns because of hiding an affair, when a leprechaun is reported in a tree, when a twice-removed justice and accused child molester becomes a viable candidate.
