Talk:National Governors Association

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Did you know... that the United States' National Governors Association serves as a key interface betweeen state governments and the federal government?

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The content of this article sounds very much like it was copied from the NGA website. It includes various potentially non-NPOV phrases which that website uses. Possibly copyvio (although I doubt the NGA would mind in this circumstance), but less than fully NPOV in any case.

Membership

Does the NGA invariably include all fifty governors? Do they have to be 'paid up' or 'card carrying' in some sense, or are they all effecively members by definition, free to participate or abstain from involvement as they choose? Are there or have there ever been any 'maverick' governors who say "screw them, I'm not joining their little club"? 86.136.92.2 01:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Membership is open to Governors of the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. How active an individual Governor wants to be involved in the NGA is up to him or her. --TommyBoy (talk) 01:13, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects and punctuation

It seems that both National Governor's Association and National Governors' Association both redirect to National Governors Association. In the UK we have an educational charity who style themselves as the National Governors' Association. That article already has a {{otheruses4}} pointing back to this article.

I propose taking back the National Governors' Association redirect for use with the British article and adding {{otheruses4}} to the National Governors Association article, unless anyone has any objections. Fmph (talk) 12:47, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Manchin

I presume Joe Manchin will step down as the NGA chair when he retires in a few weeks. Anyone who will take over for him? -LtNOWIS (talk) 11:07, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The collective POWER of the Governors. It is time you knew, and started using it.

We are; a “Representative Compound Republic”, with a Constitution! [Our Charter]

I write this Two Volume Text Book, “A Layman’s Historical view of our Constitution.” for all students and others who want to become Americans. Volume two contains the references used.

Why do I write it– because: We are not now, and never have been a Democracy.

With the book mostly finished this past spring, I expanded the research to make sure I was not incorrectly explaining the Constitution - What I found is devastating!

(1) Federal spending for Defense 'MUST be' at least 50% of all Federal Revenues Collected. Ignored today, by the People and the Supreme Court! The original States demanded this control – for it means the “Federal Government” will be forever small. How is this missed, I ask?

(2) The STATE Legislators must elect Senators. That Senator has real knowledge of State Problems. He works for the Governor, advising the President. This method gives the President real incite to general population concerns and the Governor a direct path back to the Presidential Office. It was with deliberate intent, the eeliest Socialists of the day; having recently read Carl Marx’s book (the Communists Manifesto) that they hypnotize the people into voting ... Supreme Court never intervened; never read the Federalists Papers; WHY NOT, I ask?

(3) Electoral Votes are secret and individually sealed when cast (all at the same time). Today we can do that, using GMT. Never to be opened until they reach Washington. IT IS NOT A STATE Function as, "winner take all"! It is a District Process. Ignored as being very complicated. It bothers me; that the people we elect to run the Government, think this way. [Adding numbers, carrying all the way over into a third digit.]

(4) The Governors of the States are like a "Board of Directors" The leader [pro-tempura] is the "CHAIRMAN" of the Board! Governors never knew (why not), no one read the Federal Papers, I guess. The Executive Branch of the Congress today does not want the Governors, nor the people to ever know!

This all can be fixed in a week if we stop talking of injudicious social issues, and concentrate on complex political ones for a change. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

IF THE GOVERNOR’S WANT – THEY CAN - GET BUSINESS’ BACK TO WORK! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.101.67.167 (talk) 03:56, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

similar in other countries

Austria: Conference of Landeshauptleute (plural for Landeshauptmann), see de:Landeshauptleutekonferenz

Germany: Bundesrat

Spain: Conference of Presidents, see es:Conferencia de Presidentes----Bancki (talk) 14:35, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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