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New Mexico
Related: About this forumYou folks live in Gary Johnson's state...so...how the hell did he ever get elected governor?
Did he seem this unhinged and clueless THEN?
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You folks live in Gary Johnson's state...so...how the hell did he ever get elected governor? (Original Post)
Ken Burch
Nov 2016
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JHan
(10,173 posts)1. For all his claims of being "fiscally conservative" ...
He was anything but as governor..
Skittles
(160,016 posts)6. all "fiscal conservative" means is
they're against any money being used to actually HELP people
Glamrock
(11,994 posts)2. Haven't you seen the New Mexico documentary?
There was this Heisenberg guy. Had the whole state on meth!
TygrBright
(20,987 posts)3. He had the ONE quality New Mexicans seem to value MOST in elected officials.
He did nothing.
We LOVE elected officials who do nothing.
Just look at our current Goob...
wearily,
Bright
Warpy
(113,131 posts)7. Exactly, I tell people he didn't fuck anything up
because he didn't actually try to do much of anything.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)8. And Mayor Berry in Abq...another do-nothing n/t
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)5. None of the answers provided on this thread are good enough. I suspect any hereafter will be good
enough.