61.   Gay-rights groups say a Democratic governor would improve the civil rights laws and expand benefits for gay families.

62.   Genevieve Sauls was also longtime friends with Lawton Chiles, a former Democratic governor and U.S. senator.

63.   He also happens to come from a state with a Democratic governor.

64.   He endorsed a Democratic governor, Mario Cuomo, three years ago and went to Washington to lobby on behalf of a crime bill pressed by a Democratic president.

65.   He once was a business representative for the Teamsters union in Alaska and worked in the campaigns of two Democratic governors.

66.   He is a Democratic governor from the South.

67.   Here was a Democratic governor of a Republican state whose biggest claims to fame are cutting taxes, shaving welfare rolls and sustaining a budget surplus without hiking taxes.

68.   His likely foe at the time was Robert Docking, the popular Democratic governor.

69.   If I were a Democratic governor, I would support that concept as well.

70.   Illinois has not had a Democratic governor in nearly three decades.