What does a lieutenant governor do?
John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner, who served as vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1941, once dismissed the office of vice president as worth less than a pitcher of warm urine [source: Morrow]. One can only imagine what even more distasteful comparison Cactus Jack would have concocted for a job that’s even lower on the political food chain — the post of state lieutenant governor. Lieutenant governor is a job that’s held in such low regard that five states — Arizona, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and Wyoming — don’t even bother having one [source: Hurst]. In Minnesota, the st
