The New Hampshire Governor's Two Year Term

New Hampshire and Vermont are the only two states that have a two year term for the Governor's Office. Some say that this provides for better accountability and forces the Governor to act more expeditiously on matters while others say that the short term weakens the office, requiring the Governor to spend a lot of time campaigning for their next term and not allowing them to get things done. We'll look at the history behind the New Hampshire and New England style of government, why it is the way it is and why it has not changed despite several legislative attempts over the years to expand the governor's term from two years to four years. Laura's guests are Drew Cline, Editorial Page Editor for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News; Stu Wallace, Associate Professor of History at the New Hampshire Institute of Technology and Dayton Duncan, Historian, longtime NH political observer and Chief of Staff to Democratic Governor Hugh Gallen from 1979 to 1982. We'll also hear from former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, who is currently Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.