Talk:Lieutenant governor

message: I think the mention of the succession in Massachusetts is slightly confused, in that it suggests the existence of a title of "Acting Governor".  There is no such title; the Constution provides, rather, that the Lieutenant Governor  shall act with the authority of the Governor when the Governor is unable to perform his or her duties.  (This means, as an unusual quirk of process, that the Lieutenant Governor has that authority whenever the Governor is out-of-state!)  The style of the Lieutenant Governor remains the same in such cases: "His/Her Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth".
I'm not aware of any other state in which the Governor must be located in the state in order to legally carry out his/her duties.  Occasionally it's a minor news story here when the Gov is out of town (usually fund-raising for some campaign for higher office) and the LG ends up signing some non-controversial bit of new legislation.  18.26.0.18 05:42, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massachusetts 

message: The BC list of L-Gs includes the pre-Confederation Governors; and omits the pre-Confederation Lieutenants-Governor (note proper, if archaic, form of the plural).  I'll be building separate wikipages for the BC colonies (VI and BC) and so am intending on revising the L-G tables to reflect that; or at least to break away to a prior page, or for the colonial administration redirect to the Governor of British Columbia-Governor of Vancouver Island and their L-Gs.  These were executive posts, not ceremonial, and they don't belong on the same page as the viceregal positions, at least not without a lengthy explanation that might as well be a separate page.Skookum1 08:17, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lieut-Gov colonial vs provincial 

message: I disagree with the point on Australia - in New South Wales at least the Lieutenant-Governor is a position held by the Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court (presently James Spigelman, previously Murray Gleeson, now Chief Justice of the High Court). It is not a position that only comes up when the Governor is away, dead, or has resigned. I'm not sure about other states, but this should be fixed. (JROBBO 05:32, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Australia

message: I was always under the impression that while the Lieutenant Governors were appointed by the Governor General, the appointment advice was provided by the respective provincial premiers, not by the prime minister. As well, the sovereign may still appoint the LGs, it is simply that in practise it is done by the GG.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coldacid (talk • contribs) 03:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada 

message: df  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.11.208.81 (talk) 02:31, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  GYY 

message: This article appears to be a valid link target, describing a general title and listing specific uses of that title. As an article and a valid link target, it would not be a dab page. If it really is to become a dab page, the descriptive "article-like" text would be removed and we would have:
Lieutenant Governor may refer to:
*Lieutenant governor (Australia)
*Lieutenant-Governor (Canada)
...
and none of the current categories. Then most of the incoming links would need to be disambiguated to link to the article they intended. Is that the expectation? -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:26, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree with the approach of turning this into a disambiguation page. See also my comments on the NZ article above. Schwede66 (talk) 18:48, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a disambiguation page