"Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor Irene will keep Governor Huntsman off the campaign trail," Mr. Miller said.
I envy them the fact that they got to keep Governor Bill Richardson for themselves after the last election cycle.
"But you kind of have to keep Governor Romney's feet to the fire, because you know that the tendency will be to 'Etch A Sketch' the whole thing," he said.
He was keen to keep governors at both schools on side, but admits that this led to the governing body becoming too large and unwieldy.
But he also kept the governor's office running relatively smoothly even as a flurry of scandals engulfed the administration.
Mrs. Cuomo's husband could not stop gushing about the amenities in the diary he kept as governor.
A month ago, Senator Bruno and the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver of Manhattan, agreed to pass an austere $79.6 billion spending plan that cut about $4 billion from Gov. George E. Pataki's proposed budget but kept the governor's proposal of $382 million in new school aid.
In Mississippi the lieutenant governor, Phil Bryant, appeared poised to keep the governor's mansion in Republican hands, succeeding Haley Barbour, who toyed briefly with a run for president.
They delivered the instruction "without the input of the Governor," the official said, "in order to keep the Governor's hands clean".
There are myriad problems in the Garden State, certainly enough to keep a governor engaged full time, but, apparently, not enough to garner a governor's attention when his eyes are on another prize.
