What the fuck does the lieutenant governor even do? No one seems to know. There are three serious Democrats in this race, and their biggest fight is over what they could do if they won this office.
The SECB wasn’t sure what a lieutenant governor does, either, so we bummed some uppers off a high-school kid and started googling. It turns out the lieutenant governor presides over the state senate, sits on the rules committee (which helps determine which legislation moves forward), chairs a committee on economic development and international relations, and fills in for the governor when he or she is out of state. In other words, it’s kind of a parliamentary thing, half legislative and half executive, but it’s elected in a partisan race separate from either the senate or the governor.
What the actual fuck?
