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View Poll Results: Which of these is your favorite governor from recent years?
Jeb Bush 0 0%
Bobby Jindal 1 4.17%
Larry Hogan 1 4.17%
Scott Walker 4 16.67%
Rick Perry 2 8.33%
Nikki Haley 6 25.00%
Jim Justice 1 4.17%
Other 9 37.50%
Voters: 24. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-05-2017, 11:12 PM
 
Location: The Heart of Dixie
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Which of these do you think is the best governor in terms of their leadership, beliefs, representing the people of their state, etc????
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Old 08-05-2017, 11:26 PM
 
Location: Pacific Beach/San Diego
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Nikki Haley - - got rid of the repulsive Confederate flags.
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Old 08-06-2017, 12:30 AM
 
Location: The Heart of Dixie
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Nikki Haley - - got rid of the repulsive Confederate flags.
And that's the reason I am disappointed in her. I am also an Asian American Southerner like her but my Southern pride is very important to me. I am from Louisiana and the Confederate flag is NOT about slavery or racism in my opinion. I feel Haley gave in to the pressure from Obama and from the biased national media. The Confederate flag represents Southern culture and the South, nothing more. An attack on it is an attack on Southern culture.

In contrast Bobby Jindal stood by the flag and understood it is a part of our heritage and history here. He also stood up to Obama and rejected Obamacare, unlike our current governor Jonathan Bel Edwards who is a stooge of Obama and the national party. He expanded Medicaid in support of Obamacare even though most people here are against it. Hopefully Obamacare is repealed because if its not, the federal funds for the Medicaid expansion will end in a few years and the state will have to pick up the tab and I'm not about paying higher taxes for a socialist medicine system that will deliver worse care at higher prices like Obamacare has already proven to do.

I support Jindal's plans for school vouchers too and charter schools. Jindal was very business friendly and stood up to the Obama EPA in support of our oil and gas jobs here. Several new plants were opened in Louisiana due to his policies and his negotiation with companies from other parts of the country and world. With the election of Trump in Pennsylvania and Ohio and Wisconsin, even people in the Northeast and the Upper Midwest are starting to understand the benefits of right to work, of less onerous government regulations and a more business friendly tax code. Policies like the $15 minimum wage in Seattle are killing jobs and driving businesses away from the city and contributing to extreme levels of inflation that further price working class people out of the area. He understood the flawed logic in climate science as pushed by the liberal media and Hillary Clinton/Obama and how it did not justify destroying American jobs.

Above all, Jindal had an extremely pro-life record and under his leadership, along with Republicans in the legislature, the state of Louisiana was able to shut down several of the abortion clinics in the state and pass some of the most pro-life laws in the nation, laws that should be emulated in other states to protect unborn children. Hopefully if we can throw Edwards out of office and elect a Republican we can force the closure of the last remaining 2 abortion centers in Louisiana.

Finally as the son of LEGAL immigrants like myself, Bobby Jindal understood the importance of assimilation and in immigrants coming here LEGALLY and respecting American culture. Just today he spoke out against sanctuary cities and he's also opposed the resettling of unvetted Islamic refugees in the US.
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Old 08-06-2017, 12:34 AM
 
Location: The Heart of Dixie
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Scott Walker was good to, in taking a strong stand on behalf of Wisconsin taxpayers against the corruption and blackmail of the state employee unions who made more and more unreasonable demands and wanted to hold the state government hostage if they didn't get their demands met. Walker also balanced the budget in Wisconsin without raising taxes and he also opposes sanctuary cities and illegal immigration.

Larry Hogan did a great job in Maryland but his power is limited by the veto proof Democrat controlled state legislature. However he was able to lower the tolls on the bridges and tunnels in the Baltimore area and the Chesapeake Bay, somethiing Martin O'Malley LIED about being outside the governor's power. He tried hard to protect gun rights and to lower some of the ridiculous taxes that were passed under O'Malley. Too bad he was not able to bring back the death penalty which was repealed by the liberal Democrats.

As mentioned before I liked Nikki Haley and felt a sense of betrayal when she took the Confederate flag down. Jeb Bush is incompetent and not tough enough against Obama and in ending Obama's legacy. He and Rick Perry need to be more loyal to our President and work with Trump to undo Obama's legacy. Perry supports giving in-state tuition to ILLEGAL aliens in Texas which I understand is important in Texas due to the Hispanic voters' racial solidarity with illegals but overall that is not a good stance for American interests or US citizens.
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Old 08-06-2017, 01:18 AM
 
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Scott Walker was good to, in taking a strong stand on behalf of Wisconsin taxpayers against the corruption and blackmail of the state employee unions who made more and more unreasonable demands and wanted to hold the state government hostage if they didn't get their demands met. Walker also balanced the budget in Wisconsin without raising taxes and he also opposes sanctuary cities and illegal immigration.

Larry Hogan did a great job in Maryland but his power is limited by the veto proof Democrat controlled state legislature. However he was able to lower the tolls on the bridges and tunnels in the Baltimore area and the Chesapeake Bay, somethiing Martin O'Malley LIED about being outside the governor's power. He tried hard to protect gun rights and to lower some of the ridiculous taxes that were passed under O'Malley. Too bad he was not able to bring back the death penalty which was repealed by the liberal Democrats.

As mentioned before I liked Nikki Haley and felt a sense of betrayal when she took the Confederate flag down. Jeb Bush is incompetent and not tough enough against Obama and in ending Obama's legacy. He and Rick Perry need to be more loyal to our President and work with Trump to undo Obama's legacy. Perry supports giving in-state tuition to ILLEGAL aliens in Texas which I understand is important in Texas due to the Hispanic voters' racial solidarity with illegals but overall that is not a good stance for American interests or US citizens.
Scott Walker is one of America's most corrupt politicians. Terrible governor.

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For all its twists and turns, the money trail in this scandal is easy to follow. Walker raised funds from wealthy donors, who gave anonymously to an “advocacy group” that is a well-known Walker ally, which spent the money on ads to help elect politicians and justices who helped Walker push through conservative policies, which in turn benefited those donors.

One concrete example: The documents leaked to The Guardian showed that the owner of a lead manufacturing company gave a total of $750,000 to WCFG between April 2011 and January 2012. Around the same time, the GOP-controlled state legislature passed laws that shielded lead manufacturers, retroactively, from liability for their product.
The Scott Walker Scandal Shows the Political Sewer Created by Citizens United - In These Times
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Old 08-06-2017, 06:47 AM
 
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Which of these do you think is the best governor in terms of their leadership, beliefs, representing the people of their state, etc????

Larry Hogan is a republican governor in a Democratic state with a damn good approval rating
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Old 08-06-2017, 07:31 AM
 
Location: Center City
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Kind of a rogues gallery, isn't it?
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Old 08-06-2017, 07:40 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Rich Perry who gave Trump some not so kind remarks and of course President Trump responded ..well, they are adults, no grudges from either. Perry is now on Trump's team.. now Bush can't get over it.. he is crying to his mama and dada..and brother...low energy jeb is now jealous Jeb..

It gets muddy and they throw what they can about one another at election time.. goes with the territory . Of course the numbskull left has to use that against Trump because they have nothing else... they are out of power.
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Old 08-06-2017, 07:49 AM
 
Location: Planet Telex
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Is there a reason you left out Chris Christie's name?
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Old 08-06-2017, 07:56 AM
 
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Rod Blagojevich followed by George Ryan
Sorry being from Illinois,I have my own bias.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/artic...went-to-prison
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