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Jul 29, 2002 · As a Bucks County commissioner, Madonna said, Schweiker received the state Republican Party endorsement for lieutenant governor in 1994 as part of a political deal with a GOP leadership...
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Below is a list of lieutenant governors of the U.S. state of California, 1849 to present. In California, the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor do not run together on the same ticket. The Lieutenant Governor can therefore be affiliated with a different political party than that of the Governor. Per the 1879 California Constitution, the Lieutenant Governor is the President of the State Senate .
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The 50th and current lieutenant governor is Eleni Kounalakis(D), who was first elected in 2018. She assumed office in January 2019.
The California Constitution addresses the office of the lieutenant governor in Article V, the Executive. California Constitution, Article 5, Section 9
The lieutenant governor must fulfill the same qualifications as the governor and may not hold any other public offices, engage in any lobbying, or accept any honorariums. The lieutenant governor must be a registered voter in California, a resident of the state for at least five years on election day, and an American citizens for at least five years...
The vacancy procedure for the office of lieutenant governor is determined by state statute rather than by the state constitution. When a vacancy occurs, the governor nominates a replacement to serve the remainder of the term under the next election. The appointee must be confirmed by a majority of both houses of the California State Legislature. Un...
In addition to ceremonial roles, serving as acting governor in the absence of the governor, and as President of the California State Senate, the lieutenant governor either sits on, or appoints representatives to, many of California's regulatory commissions and executive agencies. The lieutenant governor sits on several boards of higher education: t...
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California is one of seventeen states where the governor and lieutenant governor do not run as running mates on the same ticket: in California the governor and lieutenant governor are elected separately, although both are up for election in the same year every four years. As a result, California has frequently had a governor and a lieutenant governor of different parties.
Jul 29, 2002 · Having succeeded to the job from his shadow post as lieutenant governor when Gov. Tom Ridge went to Washington last autumn as the Homeland Security director, Mr. Schweiker, a Republican, chose not ...
In 1994, Schweiker successfully ran for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor. Schweiker ran in the fall general election alongside Congressman Tom Ridge, the gubernatorial nominee.
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Sep 6, 2021 · Perhaps Schweiker’s defining moment came less than a year after 9/11, when he oversaw the harrowing and dramatic rescue at Quecreek Mine, just 12 miles west of the crash site. “Lord knows we...
