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Last Updated on Monday, 20 July 2009 01:57 Written by rslcpol Monday, 20 July 2009 01:57
From the Spokesman Review:
Once lieutenants take over for departing governors in Alaska, where Gov. Sarah Palin recently announced her resignation, and Utah, where Gov. Jon Huntsman has been nominated to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China, there will have been five successions this year – joining those in Illinois and Kansas, as well as Arizona, which has no lieutenant govenor, making the secretary of state next in line – and 20 since 2000.
“The ever-increasing impact of the office of lieutenant governor on the leadership of the nation in the states is renewing interest in the office of lieutenant governor,” said Julia Hurst, director of the National Lieutenant Governors Association.