Robert Healey (Cool Moose) for RI Lt Gov, a position he wants to eliminate.

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     Eliminating the Lt. Governorship in general seems like a pretty sensible platform position. There are exceptions where the Lt. Governor wields real power, such as in Texas, but plenty of states have no use for them.

My idea is as follows:

Lieutenant Governor should be abolished as an office, but kept as a title that would be held in conjunction with other elective office. The Lieutenant Governor would be appointed by the Governor from among elected cabinet members or state legislators, and would be confirmed by the legislature.

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     Eliminating the Lt. Governorship in general seems like a pretty sensible platform position. There are exceptions where the Lt. Governor wields real power, such as in Texas, but plenty of states have no use for them.

My idea is as follows:

Lieutenant Governor should be abolished as an office, but kept as a title that would be held in conjunction with other elective office. The Lieutenant Governor would be appointed by the Governor from among elected cabinet members or state legislators, and would be confirmed by the legislature.

     That's something I could get behind. The problem with something like making the Speaker of the Assembly automatically second-in-line is that someone in a legislative position like that might not want an executive position such as Governor. This way, we at least know that the person who is second-in-line would actually want to be Governor if the need arose.

Right, and it also prevents dramatic changes in government policy like we saw in Arizona recently.