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2001 Governor's State of the State speeches


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    from 2001 Governor's State of the State speeches (number of quotes indicated):
  • Angus King (7) Maine Former Independent Governor (1995-2002)
  • Benjamin Cayetano (9)
  • Bob Holden (10) Missouri Former Democratic Governor (2001-2004)
  • Bob Taft (10) Ohio Former Republican Governor (1999-2006)
  • Bob Wise (16) West Virginia Former Democratic Governor (2001-2004)
  • Dirk Kempthorne (11) Idaho Former GOP Governor (1999-2006); and Cabinet Sec'y.
  • Don Sundquist (6) Former Republican Governor (1995-2002)
  • Frank Keating (13) Former Republican Governor (1995-2002)
  • Frank O'Bannon (4) Indiana Former Democratic Governor (1997-2003)
  • Gary Locke (3) Washington Former Democratic Governor (1997-2004); Cabinet (Commerce)
  • Jane Dee Hull (9) Arizona Former Republican Governor (1997-2002)
  • Jesse Ventura (6) Minnesota Former Minnesota Independent Governor
  • Jim Geringer (10) Wyoming Former Republican Governor (1995-2002)
  • Jim Gilmore (12) Republican presidential candidate
  • John Engler (9) Michigan Former Republican Governor (1991-2002)
  • Judy Martz (16) Montana Former Republican Governor (2001-2005)
  • Kenny Guinn (10) Nevada Former Republican Governor (1999-2006)
  • Lincoln Almond (5) Former Republican Governor (1995-2002)
  • Mike Easley (6) North Carolina Democrat Governor (elected 2000; retired 2008)
  • Mike Huckabee (9) Arkansas Republican Presidential candidate
  • Mike Johanns (8) Nebraska Former Republican Governor (2005-2007); elected Senator 2008
  • Mike Leavitt (10) Cabinet-2008
  • Parris Glendening (7) Maryland Former Democratic Governor (1995-2002)
  • Ronnie Musgrove (6) Mississippi Former Democratic Governor (2000-2003)
  • Roy Barnes (2) Georgia Former Democratic Governor (1999-2002)
  • Ruth Ann Minner (3) Delaware Former Democrat Governor (retired 2008)
  • Tommy Thompson (9) Cabinet-2005
  • William Owens (4) Colorado Former Republican Governor (1999-2006)
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 OnTheIssues.org excerpts:  (click on issues for details)
Abortion
    Mike Johanns: Partial-birth abortion is a barbaric practice.
    Jim Gilmore: Informed consent and 24-hour waiting period.
    Mike Huckabee: Supports woman’s right-to-know legislation.
    Mike Huckabee: Pro-life, but respects choice as mandated law.
Budget & Economy
    Bob Wise: Limit capital assistance find to new businesses.
    Bob Wise: The cupboard is bare, despite national economic growth.
    Lincoln Almond: $325M tax cuts & business incentives to attract investment.
    John Engler: Michigan lagged in 1990s; now restored & renewed.
    Tommy Thompson: Build the roads and the jobs follow.
    Bob Holden: Missouri is and should be fiscally conservative.
    Judy Martz: Diversify the economy; expand job market.
    Judy Martz: Teach businesses about venture capital, to create jobs.
    Bob Taft: Keep budget balanced without new taxes; hold spending.
    Benjamin Cayetano: More funding for tourism infrastructure.
    Kenny Guinn: Change government to deal with explosive growth.
    Frank O'Bannon: Focus during slowdown on education & vulnerability.
    Mike Leavitt: Highest priority is “economic transition”.
    Jim Geringer: Spend one-time revenue on one-time expenditures.
    Jim Gilmore: Virginia is booming; unemployment at record lows.
    Ronnie Musgrove: Attract new businesses; develop existing ones.
Civil Rights
    Bob Wise: Restrict and regulate video gambling.
    Judy Martz: Return human remains to Indian nations.
    Benjamin Cayetano: Defend native Hawaiian Homelands project.
    Parris Glendening: Racial Profiling is immoral and must stop.
    Parris Glendening: Do more to foster and support small and minority business.
    Parris Glendening: Combat discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Crime
    Bob Wise: $1.5M to raise pay for police and prison guards.
    Frank Keating: Target violent and career criminals.
    Tommy Thompson: Building more prisons reduces the crime rate.
    Tommy Thompson: Give prisoners a work ethic, and substance-abuse programs.
    Bob Holden: Lower drunk driving limit to .08.
    Judy Martz: After 100 years, we have enough prison cells, for now.
    Mike Johanns: Juvenile justice package: more funding; more coordination.
    William Owens: DNA tests for all felons; “Two strikes” for child molesters.
    Dirk Kempthorne: No new prisons; warehousing people is not the solution.
    Dirk Kempthorne: Drug treatment & education opportunities for inmates.
    Jane Dee Hull: $1.1M to collect DNA samples from all prisoners.
    Ronnie Musgrove: Teach prisoners skills by building senior housing.
Drugs
    Frank Keating: Supports community sentencing in drug courts.
    Bob Taft: Enact more laws to fight methamphetamines.
    Benjamin Cayetano: Philosophy shift to treatment instead of punishment.
    Mike Leavitt: Drug Courts are working; expand them statewide.
    Jim Geringer: Supports drug courts & breaking the drug cycle.
    Jim Gilmore: Illegal drugs are not an acceptable part of our society.
    Mike Huckabee: Treatment for drug use instead of incarceration.
    Dirk Kempthorne: Target meth with more manpower.
Education
    Mike Easley: Get K-12 up to levels of rest of education system.
    Mike Easley: More Pre-K; smaller classes; more teacher pay.
    Mike Easley: Use a lottery to fund elementary schools.
    Bob Wise: First priority: PROMISE College Scholarship Program.
    Bob Wise: Raise teacher salaries by $1,000; plus $2,500 in incentives.
    Lincoln Almond: Measure school performance and report to parents.
    Lincoln Almond: We will not tolerate failing schools.
    Frank Keating: More funding for schools and colleges.
    Frank Keating: Supported largest teacher pay raise in state history.
    Frank Keating: $80M in block grants to schools.
    John Engler: Expand public school choice; lift cap on charters.
    Tommy Thompson: Let’s eradicate illiteracy in Wisconsin.
    Tommy Thompson: Use Milwaukee charters & private choice as model for US.
    Bob Holden: More resources for student and teachers.
    Bob Holden: Cash incentive for National Board Certification for teachers.
    Bob Holden: Provide parents with school accountability report cards.
    Don Sundquist: Invest more in teachers and in early education.
    Don Sundquist: We test students & rate schools; now invest in reading.
    Don Sundquist: Invest in teachers: scholarships, mentors, merit pay.
    Judy Martz: More spending; more accountability via testing.
    Judy Martz: 3-Rs of education: recruit, retain, & reward teachers.
    Ruth Ann Minner: Put reading specialists in every elementary school.
    Bob Taft: Implement system of standards, assessments & accountability.
    Bob Taft: Ohio’s success depends on keeping education as #1 priority.
    Bob Taft: Called for 20,000 reading tutors; program is succeeding.
    Benjamin Cayetano: $290M for school capital improvements.
    Kenny Guinn: $23M for new teacher’s college at Henderson.
    Kenny Guinn: $10M for reading teachers; all kids read by 3rd grade.
    Frank O'Bannon: Standards worked for math & English; apply to other subjects.
    Frank O'Bannon: $50 million for flexible school readiness program.
    Mike Leavitt: Emphasize market relevance in state colleges.
    Mike Leavitt: 14.8% increase in funding for public education.
    Mike Leavitt: U-PASS: Accountability and skills testing in every grade.
    Mike Johanns: $27M for state colleges’ recruitment & diversity.
    Mike Johanns: More teacher bonuses and incentives, locally decided.
    William Owens: Teacher merit pay; student standards; smaller class sizes.
    Gary Locke: Reduced class size, despite legislative opposition.
    Gary Locke: Teacher merit pay; less rules for certification.
    Jim Geringer: $10M per year for college merit scholarships.
    Jim Geringer: $26M for professional and vocational skills training.
    Jim Geringer: Reform Charter School law to allow real parental choice.
    Jim Gilmore: College scholarships for every qualified needy student.
    Jim Gilmore: Expand Algebra Readiness Initiative; hire more teachers.
    Jim Gilmore: Raise teacher pay with local funds.
    Mike Huckabee: First priority: Raise teacher salaries.
    Dirk Kempthorne: Reading Initiative: 90% of 3rd graders reading by 2004.
    Dirk Kempthorne: Exit standards for high school via SAT-like exam.
    Dirk Kempthorne: Supports charter schools and innovative classrooms.
    Jane Dee Hull: Students FIRST: Build more schools; maintain existing ones.
    Jane Dee Hull: Supports Prop. 301, raising taxes for use in schools.
    Parris Glendening: Began the Golden Age of School Construction ($1.6B).
    Parris Glendening: Make tuition an anachronism: free college for all.
    Roy Barnes: End social promotion.
    Jesse Ventura: Take over general education costs & eliminate local tax.
    Jesse Ventura: Support school districts that think and act outside the box.
    Ronnie Musgrove: Remove the 5% cap on teacher pay.
    Ronnie Musgrove: Universities: settle the Ayers Case.
Energy & Oil
    Bob Wise: Renew 5-cent gas tax to pay for road-building.
    Tommy Thompson: More power plants and more transmission lines.
    Judy Martz: Protected transition to competitive energy prices in 2002.
    Judy Martz: More energy plants; diversify sources; include renewables.
    Bob Taft: Project THAW: $250 for home heating oil costs.
    Kenny Guinn: Delay power deregulation until protections are in place.
    Kenny Guinn: $5M to fight becoming the nation’s nuclear waste dump.
    Mike Leavitt: Ban nuclear waste & fuel rods from the state.
    Gary Locke: Diversify to renewable energy; reduce consumption by 10%.
    Jim Geringer: Expand energy infrastructure & exploration.
    Jane Dee Hull: Supports cleaner burning fuels.
Environment
    Bob Wise: Create cabinet Environment post; end tradeoff with economy.
    Frank Keating: Regulate our precious environment because we love Oklahoma.
    John Engler: More investment of Natural Resources Trust Fund.
    Don Sundquist: Supports new State Forest and 23 new natural areas.
    Judy Martz: Stewardship belongs with the states.
    Judy Martz: Government duty to protect species & water.
    Ruth Ann Minner: Livable Delaware: channel development against sprawl.
    Angus King: Maine is clean & getting cleaner.
    Angus King: Promote Smart Growth via tax breaks.
    Benjamin Cayetano: Balance growth against environmental protection.
    Benjamin Cayetano: $22M to improve state parks.
    Mike Leavitt: Spruce up, clean up and keep up our state parks.
    Mike Leavitt: Heritage Waters: 1% of all rivers for recreational fishing.
    Jim Gilmore: Extend “Virginia Naturally”: empower people with knowledge.
    Jim Gilmore: Extend "Virginia Naturally": empower people with knowledge.
    Dirk Kempthorne: Supports salmon recovery without breaching Snake River dams.
    Dirk Kempthorne: States’ rights: no grizzly bears; no roadless forests.
    Parris Glendening: $955 million for public transit & Smart Growth initiatives.
Families & Children
    Bob Holden: $3M for more local domestic violence shelters.
    Angus King: Best state to raise children; model for America’s Promise.
    Mike Huckabee: Supports “covenant marriage”.
    Roy Barnes: More restrictions on teenage driving.
Free Trade
    Bob Wise: Protect steel industry from illegal imports.
    Bob Wise: Require use of US steel in state-funded projects.
    Judy Martz: Trade as “sister-states” in Japan, China, & Taiwan.
    Dirk Kempthorne: Double Idaho’s exports.
    Jane Dee Hull: Proud of all-time record trade levels with Mexico.
Government Reform
    Frank Keating: Attract people to Oklahoma to regain Congressional seat.
    Tommy Thompson: More regional cooperation; more e-government.
    Mike Leavitt: Count missionaries abroad in census; gain Congressional seat.
    Mike Huckabee: Not more government, but more efficient government.
    Jane Dee Hull: Pay state employees more, to ensure quality staff.
    Jesse Ventura: Close soft money loophole, give candidates public money.
Gun Control
    Angus King: No gun permits for men under restraining orders.
    Jim Gilmore: More gun convictions means less violent crime.
Health Care
    Mike Easley: Supports Patients’ Bill of Rights with right to sue.
    Mike Easley: Prescription drug plan for seniors reduces net costs.
    Bob Wise: $1.5M to provide healthcare access for every child.
    Bob Wise: Improve patient rights by allowing to sue HMOs.
    Bob Wise: More discounts for prescription drugs.
    John Engler: No assisted suicide; but End of Life Care & more pain relief.
    Bob Holden: Use tobacco settlement to pay for senior prescriptions.
    Bob Holden: Healthy Families Initiative: health care access for all.
    Don Sundquist: We must save TennCare, for children & the needy.
    Judy Martz: Insured 10,000 kids under CHIPs; aim for 20,000.
    Angus King: Fund prevention programs “Campaign for a Healthy Maine”.
    Bob Taft: Golden Buckeye Card for senior Rx discounts.
    Benjamin Cayetano: $141M for new medical school at University of Hawaii.
    Kenny Guinn: Fund alternatives to long-term care for seniors.
    Kenny Guinn: Double the funding for the disabled.
    Kenny Guinn: Expand Senior Rx.
    Mike Johanns: Use tobacco settlement for biomedical research.
    Mike Johanns: $6M increase in funding for mental health.
    Jim Geringer: More funding for prescription drugs & senior care.
    Jim Gilmore: $25M more for medical care for most vulnerable citizens.
    Mike Huckabee: ARKids First program: record decreases in uninsured.
    Jane Dee Hull: Supports Kidscare; publicize it via schools.
    Ronnie Musgrove: Medical Education Scholarships for rural doctors.
    Ronnie Musgrove: Invest in state employees’ health plan, despite budget.
Jobs
    Frank Keating: Reform worker’s comp: administrative instead of court-based.
    Bob Holden: Invest in life sciences to apply farm products.
    Judy Martz: Invest in Agricultural Product Promotion.
    Angus King: Worker training for transition from loom to mouse.
    Benjamin Cayetano: Increase the minimum wage.
    Kenny Guinn: Privatized state worker’s comp & insurance.
    Dirk Kempthorne: Family Farm Security Task Force to improve ag conditions.
Principles & Values
    Mike Easley: Fosters “One North Carolina” of equal opportunity.
    Bob Wise: Treat citizens as customers of government, not as subjects.
    John Engler: The “Next Michigan”: attitude for the future.
    Mike Johanns: Priorities: tax relief, education, family.
    Jim Geringer: Focus on building Wyoming’s capacity to grow.
Tax Reform
    Bob Wise: Top-to-bottom review of business taxes & regulations.
    Lincoln Almond: Eliminate the capital gains tax.
    Frank Keating: Government spending is not the government’s money.
    Frank Keating: Lower state income tax rate from 6.75% to 3.75%.
    Frank Keating: Reduce and ultimately abolish the estate tax.
    John Engler: Exempt new high-tech sectors from state business tax.
    John Engler: Has cut and will continue to cut personal & business tax.
    John Engler: Strengthen Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
    Tommy Thompson: Cut taxes 91 times in Wisconsin, totaling $16.7 billion.
    Bob Holden: $2B in tax relief in last 6 years; now tighten our belts.
    Judy Martz: No tax increase without voter referendum.
    Bob Taft: 3-year tax holiday for high-tech start-ups.
    Kenny Guinn: Nevada needs new revenue, but now is no time for new taxes.
    Mike Johanns: $60M in property tax relief over next two years.
    William Owens: Has cut income taxes, sales tax, & marriage penalty.
    Jim Geringer: One-year 1/2% reduction in sales tax.
    Jim Gilmore: End the Car Tax.
    Mike Huckabee: Remove the poorest taxpayers from the tax rolls.
    Dirk Kempthorne: Return $140M of surplus to taxpayers.
    Jane Dee Hull: $80 million in tax cuts, to make it 10 years in a row.
    Parris Glendening: Cut 28 taxes & returned $2.6B to taxpayers.
    Jesse Ventura: Property tax needs to be smaller, simpler, fairer.
    Jesse Ventura: Across the board reduction in state income tax rates.
    Jesse Ventura: Find a way for state taxes to be collected on ecommerce.
Technology
    Bob Wise: Make e-government service available 24/7.
    Lincoln Almond: $8.4 million Rhode Island E-government Fund.
    Frank Keating: Tax credits for stock options and R&D.
    John Engler: Establish “Cybercourt” to resolve disputes on-line & quickly.
    Tommy Thompson: Don’t let one high tech company escape Wisconsin.
    Don Sundquist: Wire government plus libraries and schools.
    Judy Martz: Eliminate geography as a business issue, via E-Government.
    Ruth Ann Minner: Implement e-government, starting with DMV.
    Angus King: High-speed Internet connection for rural parts of Maine.
    Bob Taft: New programs for high-tech skills training.
    Bob Taft: $52M to support high-tech research.
    Benjamin Cayetano: $21M for computers in public schools.
    Frank O'Bannon: $50 million more for 21st Century Research Fund.
    Mike Leavitt: Merit pay & scholarships for high-tech teachers.
    William Owens: More restrictions on Internet crime & porn.
    Jim Gilmore: We should “think new”, like Founding Fathers did.
    Mike Huckabee: Arkansas becoming a leader in e-government.
    Jane Dee Hull: Targeted tax cuts to attract high-tech companies.
Welfare & Poverty
    Frank Keating: Able-bodied people must stand on their own two feet.
    Judy Martz: Sell used state vehicles to welfare families.
    Jim Geringer: Work First: move families to self-sufficiency.


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