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moriah

(8,311 posts)
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 02:18 PM Jun 2016

Possible Veep for vetting -- Montana Governor Steve Bullock

Positives:

1) While no sitting governor endorsed Bernie, Steve is one of two that gave no endorsement as of the Superdelegate list on Wiki of the first 540 to pledge to Clinton and the first 46 to pledge to Bernie.

2) Hillary has Senate experience, while a VP works with the Senate a governor is often liked to balance a ticket with executive experience.

3) He is from a region that supported Bernie and reaches out to his supporters -- this election isn't going to be won by securing a specific battleground state, reaching out to a Democratic governor of a Conservative state instead potentially takes nationwide votes from Trump (appearance of reaching toward the center).

4) While he's a relatively young governor, his experience as Attorney General in the Citizens United case shows he strongly advocates campaign finance reform. His other accomplishments as Attorney General included crackdowns on Fedex and meat packing monopolies. He's not afraid to take on corporations.

Potential negatives:

1) No additional diversity on ticket, except potentially the diversity of a male (I am concerned about reactions to a XX/XX ticket, but other diversity would be nice). However, it baits the GOP into trying to do what they do best -- offend a minority group by choosing an extremely poor representative of that group to "appeal" to diversity.

2) Like any other politician that starts out as AG, he doesn't help with Hillary's need to address CJ reform. He did implement DUI strategies to keep offenders out of jail, though, so he's not, to my knowledge, had any accusations of being a real "cradle to prison pipeline" supporter.

Thoughts?

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