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...them have backgrounds in law enforcement. Of the Democrats who have been elected Governors in the all-blue stripe of states running from Montana to New Mexico, only Bill Richardson of New Mexico has spent any time as a legislator. The rest are either ranchers or prosecutors. Janet Napolitano, the wildly popular Governor of Arizona, which is in the next stripe west, was a U.S. Attorney appointed by Bill Clinton, as was Dave Freudenthal, the Governor of Wyoming. Ken Salazar was Colorado's attorney general before winning his Senate seat. "I could never have gotten elected back East," says John...
...little too cozy with the oil, gas and timber interests. "Issues like gay marriage and abortion are not on the cutting edge out here," says Kevin DeMenna, a Republican consultant in Arizona. "Building infrastructure, figuring out how to manage growth--those are cutting-edge issues. And Democrats like Janet Napolitano have just been a lot more pragmatic than the Republicans...
...Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has been lobbying members of the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee, which will decide. "He's working it hard," says one committee member, "and Nevada did a fantastic job when they did their presentation." But Arizona's charismatic governor, Janet Napolitano, has been on the attack as well. "Napolitano is putting everything but the kitchen sink in there," says committee member Donna Brazile...
...worrisome, at the least.As if to nail the coffin shut on this sorry episode, the Arizona media has paid slim attention to the incident. This is surprising, given the state’s typically moderate conservatism: Sen. John McCain is Arizona’s favorite son; Gov. Janet Napolitano is not only a Democrat, but also an unmarried woman, and the state capital Phoenix is the fifth-largest city in the country. But the shame of this affair reveals that my state is not as far along as I thought: this sure ain’t Boston.According to his online...
...ELECTED. Giorgio Napolitano, 80, as the 11th President of Italy; in Rome. Blocked by outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition, which saw the former communist as too left-wing, Napolitano secured a majority backing for his appointment by Italy's Parliament after three failed ballots. As head of state, one of his first tasks will be to invite incoming Prime Minister Romano Prodi to form a new government...