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Let's not romanticize Governor Leavitt too much. Nice guy, very pandering as Governor. When he left Utah no one was sad he left, minus a few old guard Democrats on Capitol hill. Mainstream Democrats, moderate and conservative Republicans were pretty happy to have him move on. He pandered everything.
Everything was a sales job. I hear that legislators took bets on how many props he would use to give his State of the State speeches. He was Utah's first opinion poll politician.
In my opinion he is very smart but not a statesman. He punted the political football when it was tough. Remember how the Highway Patrolman endorsed the Democrat, after the election Leavitt fired the leaders of the Highway Patrol and elevated some way over their paygrade? To include the head of his personal bodyguard took over the entire Drivers License Division. It was in the Deseret News if anyone wanted to look back.
Please Mike, for the sake of kind politics. Stay in the private sector. Go write a book about Katrina or the Bush Administration behind the scenese. All the best in DC!
An administrator, you are. A leader, we will wait to see ... how much truth you can share with the peons and masses.
Your favorite serf.
The only thing he did well in Washington is back out of everything he fought for as governor of Utah. For instance, as Gov he wanted more money for CHIP. In Washington, he said more money for CHIP would be a step toward socialized medicine. The guy is a dweeb. Everyone is calling him a good guy. Good guys don't go to Washington. They fight people in Washington from their own communities and try and make the world a better place. They don't fight to keep uninsured children uninsured. What's so good about that?