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Monday, July 12, 2010

What’s A Maryland Lieutenant Governor To Do?


What does a Maryland lieutenant governor do for $125,000 a year, besides hanging around and waiting for the governor to become incapacitated? Whatever the governor tells him or her to do.


“In our constitution, the lieutenant governor in Maryland has no constitutional authority at all – only what the governor gives them,” ex-Gov. Bob Ehrlich told former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney last month as they had a joking exchange about Romney being “unemployed” and “available” to serve on Ehrlich’s ticket.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about Pollitt's "public info officer" cost to County taxpayers of $60,000 per year plus benefits.

Anonymous said...

If that's the case, then why did Bob Ehrlich make a big deal out of who he picked for LG?