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Any person chosen governor, lieutenant-governor, councillor, senator, or representative, and accepting the trust, shall, before he proceed to execute the duties of his place or office, make and subscribe the following declaration, viz:
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Joining me from Boston, Democrat Tim Murray, the Massachusetts lieutenant-governor, and from Washington Doug Heye, he's the Republican communication strategist.
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The lieutenant-governor position has little formal authority, he added.
Gavin Enters California's Lt. Governor Race Justin Scheck 2010
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The lieutenant-governor position has little formal authority, he added.
Gavin Enters California's Lt. Governor Race Justin Scheck 2010
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The lieutenant-governor position has little formal authority, he added.
Gavin Enters California's Lt. Governor Race Justin Scheck 2010
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Mario Dumont and Pauline Marois would have gone to see the lieutenant-governor, Pierre Duchesne, to tell him that the parties with a majority in the National Assembly were uniting to form a coalition government, with Pauline Marois as premier.
Coalition fever: The swine flu of 2008 - Deux maudits anglais - Macleans.ca 2009
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Mario Dumont and Pauline Marois would have gone to see the lieutenant-governor, Pierre Duchesne, to tell him that the parties with a majority in the National Assembly were uniting to form a coalition government, with Pauline Marois as premier.
2009 April 2009
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And then Kathleen Townsend, lieutenant-governor in Maryland, and Mark Shriver is doing very, very well here.
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The Appellate Court, by a 4 to 1 decision, had determined that because the lieutenant-governor has "statewide duties other than to preside over the senate and, when necessary, to act as governor, which should be performed by an official elected in the state at large and not by one elected by the voters of a single senate district, as is the case of the temporary president of the senate."
Bill Cunningham: Power to the People...Ravitch for Lt. Gov 2009
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The Appellate Court, by a 4-to-1 decision, had determined that because the lieutenant-governor has "statewide duties other than to preside over the senate and, when necessary, to act as governor, which should be performed by an official elected in the state at large and not by one elected by the voters of a single senate district, as is the case of the temporary president of the senate."
Bill Cunningham: A November Election For Lieutenant Governor? 2009
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