21.   Straphangers are not the only New Yorkers who feel they do not get a fair shake from the first elected governor in decades without roots in the five boroughs.

22.   That timing enables the group to approach a newly elected governor and lieutenant governor somewhat outside the political fray.

23.   The elected governor of Okinawa has a natural obligation to represent his people in trying to regain peaceful, dignified lives.

24.   The elected governor and the elected state lawmakers, of course, belong at the top of any public state policy.

25.   The head of government is an elected governor.

26.   The newly elected governor, Jim Hodges, announced his support.

27.   The news conference Sunday, the first public lineup of so many newly elected governors, vividly demonstrated their political importance.

28.   The officially elected governor of Chiapas was sworn in Thursday, defying rebel threats to resume their uprising if he took office.

29.   The senator has also belatedly won the critical endorsement of former Gov. Douglas Wilder, a Democrat who is the only black ever elected governor in the country.

30.   There are exactly two female elected governors in the country, Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.