Making History: Leaders Make Their Mark
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July/August 2007
To really get a flavor for the way legislative leaders do their jobs, State Legislatures magazine sent reporters out to spend an entire day with a cross-section of top legislative leaders: the country’s youngest speaker who stepped into the role with only two years’ experience, the ex-staffer and mother of two who heads a chamber wrested from the other party, the long-serving savvy legislator who parlayed inside knowledge into a leadership victory, and the nice guy consensus builder, elected in 2000 and named Senate president in 2007. From dawn to dusk and into the night we shadowed these leaders as they went from meeting to meeting, phone call to phone call, bill signing to bill signing, constituent to constituent, lobbyist to lobbyist, breakfast to lunch to dinner.
Seeing Things Differently: Nebraska’s new young speaker, Mike Flood, thrives on politics and hard work.
Experience Counts: Minnesota’s Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher has a mile long political résumé that includes time as a legislative staffer.
Master of Consensus: It is said that Maryland Speaker Mike Busch inundates his caucus with information and persuades them with intellectual brute force.
Leading by Example: Arizona Senate President Timothy S. Bee is hands-down one of the most well-liked leaders in the country.
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