New GOP Governors Exerting Power In Dramatic Ways While Competing For The Spotlight

The Miami Herald:

Newly elected officials such as New Jersey's Chris Christie, Florida's Rick Scott and Wisconsin's Scott Walker are exerting power in dramatic ways and jumping over each other for a share of the national spotlight.

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Comments

[Littlekit]

08:33 AM on 03/15/2011

How I see it the good ole boys didn't want Alex Sink as FL's first woman governor and they saw to it she didn't get elected. Alex was thrown under the bus for sure.

[JDZSB]

11:56 PM on 03/14/2011

Cannot comment on Scott because he is new to the scene for me, but, I like Christie, Walker, Kasich, and Daniels, and what they are attempting to do in their states. They have taken a longer term view of the problems in their respective states in the face of strong criticism, and are implementing their agenda to resolve the problems and get their states back on a financially stable path. We can debate their strategy and the pros and cons, but their strategies are similar and "tough love" oriented and we need to give them a chance to see if they will work. At least, they are stepping up to doing something different instead of the "same ole..same ole" which is not working.

[jumpencatfish]

10:22 PM on 03/14/2011

Scott has hardly been "screwed by government". He ran a company that attempted to heist billions of your dollars and was caught. He can still be prosecuted and should be. If you steal a coke from a store darn tooting he would want you in the pokey.

[goldengirl43]

10:06 PM on 03/14/2011

As bad as Walker, Christie, and Company are, Rick Scott is the absolute WORST! An absolute HORROR as governor.

[RichardinJax]

10:18 PM on 03/14/2011

Maybe..or maybe not. Scott, my governor, did at least suggest Union Busting was not on his agenda. The guy is a creep for sure but..he has a potential no one has talked about. He has been totally screwed ( deservedly ) by Government. If he can channel himself from anti-Gov to forcing his nemesis to do what in Florida is anathema to it..make the peoples lives better..he will have laughed last.

[tarheel08]

10:06 PM on 03/14/2011

Would love to hear some of these conversations. For example, Gov. Walker "Ended rights for public workers to collectively bargain. Gov. Scott's reply "Yeah, well, I just helped put X hundred thousand in poverty." Gov. Brewer, "I beat you all--I am helping those terrible people [those who can't afford transplants] who need organ transplants expire, reducing the backlog for worthy people to receive transplants!"

[WhatWereTheyThinking]

10:32 PM on 03/14/2011

RICO Act?

[sixchair]

09:37 PM on 03/14/2011

tp really brings out the best, don't they?

[Cabo600]

09:33 PM on 03/14/2011

Peter King should be investigating these "home grown terrorists" we have masquerading as Republican governors.

[drini]

02:19 PM on 03/15/2011

absolutely!!!

[Cabo600]

02:26 PM on 03/15/2011

Sure wish somebody would speak up besides the people.

[Cleverboots]

09:33 PM on 03/14/2011

Shall we call them the three Mouseketeers?

[Michaela1976]

09:31 PM on 03/14/2011

The only thing missing in this picture is Shrek..

[nypapajoe]

09:25 PM on 03/14/2011

These two fools and the rest of the republican governors trying to emulate their absurdity will be the demise of the Republican lobbyist party of the rich! They done messed with the back bone of America! The ones that work day to day struggling to keep up with the demise of the economy! These are the people that vote and are fed up with the deceit, corruption and out right legal right as Americans to live a life free of a fascist dictatorship! There are going to be plenty of ONE Termer's! if they are not recalled earlier! Let us all pray for their corrupt demise!

[WhatWereTheyThinking]

09:24 PM on 03/14/2011

Moe Larry Curly

[Hillbilly49]

09:10 PM on 03/14/2011

These right wing tools were elected to serve corporate America; not Americans who have to work for a living. 

[bettybp]

08:59 PM on 03/14/2011

"If ye love Wealth better than Liberty, the tranquility of Servititute better than the animating contest of Freedom - Go from us in peace. We ask not your council nor your arms.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you and
may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
(Sam Adams, Founding Father, American Revolution)

Note the words: "...lick the hands which feed you" which could pertain to Scott's associations with his Koke buds. Though many Tptys love to "imitate" the founding fathers by parading around in tricorne hats, it seems clear that many "Fathers" had words that did not approve of their actions.

[Mingpeke]

09:30 PM on 03/14/2011

Those tricorn hat wearing folks think the Revolutionary war began in NH and there are actually Nobel Lauretes that believe in intelligent design.

[triplettam]

08:56 PM on 03/14/2011

Ha! THE BIG THREE: Huey, Dewey and Louie. Quacking all the way.