Worst 10 American Governors 

Mr. Beat How about Top 10 BEST Governors

Eliot Spitzer of New York!

Ronald Woltmann Agreed! He caused a lot of damage in the State of Michigan. The roads suck, and the Flint Water Crisis happened under his watch. Not cool dude.

A possible one would be Huey Long. I don't know much about him, but I do know he is notorious for his absolute control as a governor.

James E. Ferguson of Texas was the first Texas Governor to be impeached

I've heard from someone that Edwin Edwards once said when he was running against David Duke, "The only thing we have in common is we're both wizards under the sheets". That quote alone, if real, would be enough to knock him off a top 10 list of worst governors for me.

I believe “Vote for the lizard not the wizard” was a popular bumper sticker at the time

You better change that pfp

Talk about voting for the lesser of two evils! 2016 presidential election was a dwarf compared to 1991 in Louisiana.

Agreed.

Pretty much sums it up. Oh, and don't be an absolute ruler.

Politicians in general are corrupt. You can't just trust the Government to not try to screw you over. Keep them in trust constantly.

+Flame Fusion Technically untrue... corruption is cyclical, it wax and wane. Politician are generally as corrupt as the phase the system is in.

Everyone can be "racist". That is natural.

City Beautiful, I subscribe you!

I left after his first term. My friends back home like him more than the current one.

I'm not from NJ so pardon my ignorance. But what did he do to get such low approval ratings?

@@ADT1995 it wasn't just one thing it was a lot of things to be honest. First of all he could be down right nasty at town halls and things like that. If someone disagreed with him, it was not exactly uncommon for him to go off on citizens calling them stupid and things like that. For example, he was a big proponent of reducing the budget to public schools saying that schools in New Jersey got too much money. But multiple people pointed out the fact that his own children went to private school and as a result wouldn't be impacted by the types of things he was trying to implement. Thus led to several situations where Christie basically lost his s*** because how dare they bring his children into this. He was super aggressive and argumentative in a way that you really don't see that often in politicians, especially the way that he was willing to argue with citizens openly. Then you had the big one, bridgegate where several of his top officials intentionally created traffic on a bridge to mess with a political rival. People were stuck on a bridge for hours all because they wanted to mess with some mayor. Highly illegal stuff and a good chunk of his political inner circle was directly responsible. Prosecutors were never able to directly tie him to the incident, but a lot of people liberals and conservatives Wonder to this day if he might have been aware of it. Many of these people were people he worked closely with for many years, and a few of them said he didn't know about it. Then you have things like the Exxon Mobil case. Long story short. Years ago ExxonMobil directly created an environmental disaster in New Jersey through what was proven in the courts to be negligence. I don't remember what the number was exactly, but they cause many millions of dollars of damages. Originally it looks like they were going to pay most of those damages out to the people of New Jersey. But Chris Christie seriously campaigned and used political influence to convince people that if we punish ExxonMobil for the crime that they committed, then they might leave the state of New Jersey and we wouldn't have them as a business partner. He was very overly more worried about that than them having to make up for what damages they caused. Once again a lot of people conservative and liberal did not like his focus here. There was a time where he closed the beaches, and then went with his family to the beach when legally nobody but himself was able to visit them. There were quite a few other things but the real killer I think at the end was the fact that he ran off to go run for president and basically stopped being governor. He was practically never in New Jersey once his campaign started, and when journalist asked him about it, he would basically just get all snarky and not really give a good answer why he never was in the state. It got so bad that when we had a major hurricane and people were without power and with damaged houses, even then he didn't come back to the state he was still going state to state campaigning. This is an especially infamous one because when journalists asked him why he wasn't helping his state in a time of need, he said what do you expect me to do grab a mop. Basically at the end of the day, he knew that he was never going to win New Jersey even if he did have a chance to become president which he didn't. So he didn't care and at that point he knew that most people in New Jersey really didn't like him.

@@Yukiwodashite Sounds like a really crappy governor. Thank you for your answer.

@@ADT1995 bridge gate and beach gate. Look it up.

I live in NJ and I hated Chris Christie

@@glenproctor2514 (609) guy here. I agree 100%

Then after kissing up to the orange one wasn't given anything in that administration although I think that might have worked out in his favor.

He was totally responsible for my retiring from teaching after 30 years. mess with my pension and take a fortune out of my paycheck for health benefits which were supposed to be free???...I think not!

Christie put jared kushner's father in jail as a prosecutor...jared wanted him gone and Trump did what jared said.

dang yeah chris christie really couldn’t care less oh and yeah he needs to go on weight watchers

I think “as hungry as Chris Christie in a bagel shop” should be a common phrase now.

Not surprising.

I’m sorry but that’s so fucking funny 😂

His personality is like a caricature of people from Jersey and politician stereotypes mixed together it’s so funny

Or maybe you just expose yours?

Same

us illinoisans love our shit governors apparently!

@@fibnasty jb pritzker wasn't as bad as the last guy, but overall Illinois can do so much better

@@nathanedwardblack 4 different Illinois governors have served time in jail

When 28 traitors were tied for #2, I knew genocide was the only thing worse.

Palpatine be like: execute order 44

"It will result in lots of bloodshed, but my enemies will be wiped out. And don't call me Shirley."

Take it from a Latter-day Saint, we really don't like that guy

"Execute Order 66"

The answer is YES, but he's also a nonsensical idiot. Both are true. I still can't get past he didn't tell his wife she had cancer so she would continue running for office.

He changed his views as time went on

@@nicolelawrence7722 she had to find out about it when she had to go to the hospital for extensive bleeding in her uterus

He was a grifter

He was clearly a politician, saying what would get him elected. This varied depending on the circumstances. It's pretty obvious and extremely common.

Kerner. Walker. Ryan. Blagojevich.

I was thinking the same thing. Even Dennis Hastert ended up in Jail. The only speaker of Congress to come from the great state of Illinois.

I hadn't heard of the two on the list either, but Len Small makes Blago look like a boy scout, lol.

Illinois is shitty.

Alvin Sun Hellinios

You could do a decent top 10 list of terrible American governors for just Illinois alone. Not sure that's something to be proud of, but... yay Illinois?!

@@Salsuero that's what democrats do

@@karlhans4116 What is?

@@Salsuero worse governing

@@karlhans4116 Oh. I thought you had something insightful to contribute. My mistake. Never mind.

Yeah, sorry, Louisiana already ranked near last in everything long before your buddy Bobby was governor. It's pretty sad when you're competing with Mississippi, Arkansas, and West Virginia not to be last in some category.

@@John-tr5hn 😂 for real

Aye man, at least we try not to be dicks about it (I'm a Louisianan, want some gumbo?)

Probably too recent.

Like Joseph Lane Lane county Oregon

Sad because most buildings at colleges and such are named after big donors even if they were terrible people. It isn't sometimes until years later they decide that they don't want that persons name connected to it.

I live in Washington County, MD so there I’m 100 percent guilt free plus get the first president bonus

Lumpkin was a racist

@@michaelsuder3956 Same but Bronx County, ny aka the bronx.

SPOILER ALERT. 😀 But seriously, that is flattering you really wanted me to run. I don't have the money for that, plus I wouldn't want to put my family through that.

Same zachy

Unfortunately, we're probably going to be stuck with Kobach

There was a 17 y/o kid in my neighborhood who ran for governor of Kansas

@@iammrbeat pls run (You can get campaign donations beacause of the channel).

What about your boy Brigham? He wasn’t any better.

He was based

@@layne6675 oh my fuck yes I also disliked him even before leaving the church, oh yeah I’m atheist now Still hate Boggs

@@layne6675 How many people criticize Moses for having multiple women, or any other biblical figure for that matter? As for the genocide, Mr beat’s favorite president owned hundreds of humans beings. Why pretend Brigham Young was anything less than what he was? The modern Melchezidek, high king and priest over his people whom he delivered out of state sponsored violence to a prosperous land where he established his theocratic kingdom. You will never talk the Mormons out of loving Brigham, there’s no point even trying. Might as well try to convince Muslims to cancel Muhammad.

​@@bubbagidrolobidoo6730which is why executive order 44 was honestly kinda justified

Yeah, he made some bad decisions there, no one's arguing that. I don't think its fair to call murder, though. And frankly, if it weren't for the Flint crisis, he wouldn't have been so bad at all.

Flint had those issues long before Snyder took office. Corrupt local politicians weren't putting the money where it should've gone. Not defending Snyder by any means but too many people run with the BS you just said in your comment.

@wren7300 "If it weren't for the thing that made him bad he wouldn't have been so bad" Mind blown

@@mouldygrapes9500 he wasn't fully, not even 50% responsible for the Flint Water Crisis though - that had been going on for at LEAST a decade before he even took office. That'd be like saying Jennifer Granholm is responsible for how shitty the roads are in Michigan even though our infrastructure has been garbage for decades. One thing is for sure though, our current c u n t in charge destroyed a good 30% of small business with her unconstitutional actions during the pandemic and now she got reelected.

@@wren7300 OK manslaughter. If you really want to split legal hairs.

Mr. Beat specifically said this list won’t include recent governors.

I'm glad you agree!

Two points about two of the worst governors you listed: Boggs and Young. Because there are a few points I think you missed. Mostly about Brigham Young, but historical context isn't always easy to sum up in a 10-15 minute video, is it? To be fair to Boggs, it was done more out of fear and rumor than outright hatred. He was badly misinformed about the exact causes of the Missouri Mormon War and the motivations of the Saints themselves. It didn't help that when a state militia improperly arrested three or so members and harassed the locals that a Mormon militia fought and defeated them at the battle of Crooked Creek. Losses were relatively light on both sides, but the paranoia generated from it was a huge factor in the Extermination Order.

As for Brigham Young, there are MULTIPLE misconceptions. Now I can't say I agree with all he did, but many of his actions do make sense when looked at more closely. Again, it's not easy to sum up in a short video, and a comment will take a while, so here are a few points. 1. Brigham Young and the Mormons arrived in Utah having first been kicked out by the US. Eventually, the region fell into US hands once more, and already his efforts to carry out colonization in the west made him the de facto leader. His leadership may certainly have blended church and state and was the predominant force in Utah. For the Mormons who lived in Utah this wasn't much of an issue. The majority more or less sustained him anyways. Non-members didn't start arriving in significant numbers until well after the initial settlement and shortly after Young's official tenure. And even before, calling him a "tyrant" would be quite a bit of an exaggeration. 2. Was slavery a "divine institution?" Consider it was emancipation, nor equality, that many abolitionists fought for. Most governors in the South would have made similar statements, and a majority of them aren't mentioned in this video's list. Brigham Young's views were neither uncommon for his time or contemporaries. However, there are many different types of slavery each with their own practices. While Young, known for his own strong polemics, didn't decry slavery, he certainly taught against many acts of cruelty. The type of slavery that was taught was more akin to Biblical (old testament) directives, which regarding slavery (and especially compared to the contemporary American slave economy) were fair for their day.

3. Polygamy. It was a thing. But it was it's own thing. Nor was it meant for the sexual pleasure of the polygamist man. It is telling that as the debate to end polygamy began, 1st generation feminists in Utah (of the universal suffrage crowd) DEFENDED polygamy. To marry a second or another wife a man needed the consent of a) the married, b) his current wife and c) to consult with an authority. MOST Mormons never had more than one spouse at a time and the leaders did NOT hog young women for themselves. In fact, the whole purpose was to provide for widows and, with their consent, give them children in their name. Finally, a weird tangent, there were ceremonial marriages as well, which were not sexually consummated. The upshot of all this was that the actual number of wives that Young had relations with is smaller than the official number of wives he had. Nor did he run orgies every Friday night, or at all.

4. Mormons and Natives often did come into conflict. However, Young didn't declare war on them because they wouldn't accept the Church. Young initially discouraged proactive missionary efforts to neighboring tribes (though converts were accepted), chose the Salt Lake Valley over Utah Valley (Provo) because the Utes lived there, and throughout his life made EXTENSIVE efforts to reach out and befriend native tribes. Some of these got along with Mormons alright, others did not. Most were mixed. The real source of conflict was over ownership of the land, and more generally when Mormons had with some individual raider who took a few cattle from them. The idea that the Mormons waged war on the natives for rejecting their God is historically inaccurate.

JB is definitely next

@Gus Polinski Polka King Of the Midwest he's a billionaire so he'd probably bail his way out... I'd hope he ends up in jail though

​@@TheRealUSArmySo please explain why Pritzker belongs in jail. Name a crime just one. Or are you just regurgitating what conservative media tells you to think?

Blago is trying to make a comeback. He and his equally rotten spouse should both be in prison. Imagine, extorting money from a hospital that served dying & severely disabled children!

@William Brynn No, I think that bimbo's her own thing mixed with trump/infowars influence. Rhoads never said the protesters should've armed themselves against the national guard like she did.

Maybe cause they pretty much deserved it

@@bleeding4721 um no...... first of all there is never a protest that should end with the military killing it's own people regardless of if you agree or not with their message. That's fascist as fuck. Second their protests were peaceful no damage was done until the gaurd came to campus. The only damage on the protesters side was that someone committed arson to the rotc building (and got away with it 51 years later and no one knows who did it) and guard was already on campus at that point. Using the first amendment rights of free speech and free assembly is not justification for murder....... Rhoads used a bar fight downtown (literally a mile away) as a way to scapegoat and justify national guard presence. He literally had to make shit up to enact his fascist wishes against the American people. Lastly 2 of 4 murdered victims weren't even protesting they got caught in the crossfire

@@bleeding4721, What?

Because there were 10 governors that were actually worse... at least according to the video. It's not a reprieve for Rhoads... it's just further condemnation of the 10 that actually made the list.

And people harp on Whitmer for keeping Michigan under lockdown during a deadly pandemic. How disappointing.

@@maxwellkowal3065 Goes to show a lot of people care more about partisanism rather than actual ethical scandals.

Whitmer is worse than Rick Snyder.

@movieman only someone living outside Wayne or Genessee county would have the privilege of believing that.

@@movieman9100 how? Snyder literally killed people with his dumbness.

Wasn’t that bad of a guy I have mad respect for him especially for calling out Trump

Oh man! I had planned on it since he was such a fascinating character, but then EmperorTigerstar did a great video on him a few months back. I probably will still eventually make one, though.

EVERY MAN A KING

Like Emperor Tigerstar

He was authoritarian, anti-regulations and a micromanager but generally for good intentions.

Huey Long was interesting 😂😂😂

Aw, yeah, I just don't have the money. Plus, I don't think I could ever put my family through that. That's kind of you, though. :D

Plus you already have a politicians greatest asset, Lying.

@@EPluribusUnumYT Damn that's a mean joke 😂

He was obviously joking. Besides, you could’ve just cast a write in vote for him.

As a Kansan, I agree.

Exactly!

opinions on lori lightfoot?

Chicago isn’t a state

@@itsurboidonnie Only negative

William Hale Thompson was one of the most corrupt mayors in US History, but he never became governor.

No he was great

Right

Dude single-handedly costed the Democrats the House in 2022. Useless.

Andrew “Mission Accomplished” Cuomo

@Bubastis lee zeldin was very strong though. If Wilson or Astorino ran they would've lost by 10pts. If Giuliani won he may have lost by more because of him being associated with his dad who's associated with Trump. Zeldin was the most electable one imo

Connecticut acquired the nickname “Corrupticut” during his tenure.

I remember the MSM talking up Jindal as Presidential material.

​@@nadezhdawall-rossi2864 - I remember that. From 2008 to 2012, Jindal was very popular in Louisiana and a future favorite for the GOP nomination for President. They were propping him up as the GOP version of Barack Obama. Things started to go downhill for Jindal in 2013. By the time 2015 arrived, his approval rating in Louisiana was in the 20s and polls showed Hillary Clinton carrying Louisiana if Jindal was the GOP nominee in 2016.

Especially the dead ones!

@@vistagreat9994 On the internet, no one knows if you're dead. 😜

The last scandal free California Governor was probably George Deukmejian.

I like Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom as governors and also their policies, and I appreciate Arnold despite disagreeing with him on a few issues. That being said, Arnold kinda was a disaster for our economy.

​@@Angry5704seems to be a trend with republican actors holding political office

@@paisleepunkOh, no joke. Bob Dornan sucks, too.

Didn’t Newsom have The French Laundry scandal though?

Yay for that!

Mr. Beat for President 2024

cops-ate-my-baby Cept for me, I’m a traitor

@@cornmaster5522 lol i salute you

Since there is no entrenchment allowed in the Constitution, the southern states had the absolute right to leave the union. What any state convention or law accepts, I.e. the ratification of the Constitution, can be unsatisfied by a succeeding convention or legislature.

@@tomvernon2123 Maybe on paper but everyone knew from the dawn of the American nation that the federal government will not tolerate succession. No government will that is why I made this comment a revolution that fails is a rebellion and a rebellion that succeeds is a revolution. Everyone thinks they are in the right and to say that we can't label anyone anything is ridiculous. Feel free to reply back I forgot I made this comment it was so long ago lol

@@cops-ate-my-baby3410 I just got finished rereading an essay on secession in a book entitled "To Live and Die in Dixie". A very good book with plenty annotations. All the essays are excellent, the one referred to, "The Constitutionality of Secession", by Dr John Emison. In it you will find all the proofs needed to show the legality of secession. Several states argued during the Constitutional Convention that the state's had the right to repeal their adoption of the Constitution, three, including Virginia, wrote this statement into their adoption document. Also, the sovereignty always rests with the people. Conventions were called in the southern states and the representatives of the people voted overwhelmingly to rescind their adoption of the Constitution.

He seems pretty liberal. I doubt he will lol

@@Tymonster95 literally every one of these except 1 was a democrat?

@@god-of-war-fan all before the switch tho

@@niccolobattistoni6733 what switch?🤡

I agree I really think that would be interesting to see

Exclude ones that became president or VP

As a Texan, Ted Cruz is definitely one of the worst

@@TheBigRedskull Mitch McConnell Lindsey Graham and so many

@@KnuxMaster368 including Jackson Andrew Johnson Calvin Coolidge

I'm not Mormon but if you want to look at sketchy leaders. Look up Joseph Smith

As a Mormon living in Utah, my only complaint about including Brigham Young is that he was only a territorial governor and not a state governor. I want to disagree with his ranking, but, I can't.

If by sketchy you mean a genocidal psychopath then yup

I always wondered why polygamy was a concept in itself

@@eyezak_m I'm a bit skeptical of 'prophets' who have a divine revelation about how they can s***w as many women as they want, including other men's wives. Seems sketchy. Joseph Smith and Mohammad, I'm looking at you.

Is that still the case?

​@@beachboysandrew No it was just to reverse what Governor Orville Faubus did. He ordered the National Guard to prevent Negro students from entering white schools even though the Supreme Court had reversed the doctrine of "separaate but equal schools for whites and blacks" Southern states couldn't or wouldn't proived equal schools for black kids and many white kids went to private schools that blacks could not afford. So the law wasn't effectively working for the purpose of equality so the Supreme Court mandated that all children shall be entitled to the same quality of education regardless of race.. Faubus would not integrate public schools and stood on the steps of the Little Rock High School claiming the segregation was forever, surrounded by the National Guard that he called up to keep black students from entering. the school. Eisenhower was advised that while in peacetime and except during national emergencies and to keep the peace. the state governor is the commander of the National Guard. Eisenhower decided to declare a national emergency because Arkansas had ndecided to defy the Constitution and other southern states were threatening to do the same. So he nationailized the Guard and the nexy day they were escorting black chidren to school on the same campuses where white people were screaming threats , cursing, and even spitting and trying to strike these kids while the guard tried to hold the whites back.

I don't think he was governor. Just mayor

Well thank YOU. Glad you dig the videos. It means a lot.

He would eat the sopranos LOL.

I guess that Brigham Young was very fruitful so he multiplied through 55 wives lol.

He was a violent racist.

I would love to. EmperorTigerstar did one awhile back, but I'd also love to research Long longer. See what I did there?

​@@iammrbeat I think you should have added Jeese Ventura, he was terrible; he inherited a 4 billion dollar surplus when he started, and gave the state a 4.5 billion dollar deficit when he left.

Christie was likely bitter that he (and about 18 others ) got beat out by a complete neophyte blowhard in the 2016 Republican primary.

Do you think he’ll survive the recall?

@@s4gr_n0s3y I doubt it. At this point there is no return. Same with Cuomo. Almost everyone in California hates Newsom, regardless of their views

@@theilluminati7287 yeah I don’t see him surviving, if there is another Democratic candidate on the ballot Newsom is likely going to get destroyed

@@s4gr_n0s3y I dont think any democrats are challenging him yet. His real challengers right now are Kevin Faulconer(Who Im supporting) and Caitlin Jenner, who are both Republicans.

@@theilluminati7287 really tho even tho I’m a Democrat I support the recall and hope that Newsom is out of there

But I think I could still drop the Knowledge without running :D

Do not drop the Knowledge! SHARE it! LOL!

either way mr beats you got my vote

@Expedition Seven That didn't help Adlai Stevenson.

I do think he was sincere later in life when he asked for forgiveness, but for most of his life, yes, I think he was racist.

Likely he might have done that at first, and then he probably did become genuinely racist. If you walk the walk long enough you tend to buy into it.

Opportunists generally abandon whatever morality they had when they started in an enterprise, assuming they had any to begin with. Should they appear to have morality at any point afterwards, they're running the same scam, just in a different way..

If he used racism to get elected that makes him a racist whether he actually believed what he said or not. To a Black person on the receiving end it makes no difference whatsoever.

Wallace was a racist and I also think it’s messed up how he hid his wife’s cancer diagnosis so she would run for governor that was very selfish of him

Thanks for the kind words! :D

Eventually, yes!

Goooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1) Eugene Talmadge 2) Lester Maddox 3) Wade Hampton 4) John B Gordon 5) James Vardaman 6) Feilding Wright 7) Theodore Bilbo 8) George Wallace 9) Ross Barnett 10) Marvin Griffin

I was just about to suggest. A top 10 from you would be fascinating. :) Just found this channel. Really loving it.

@@thomaswatson1739 Sam Houston only southern governor to refuse to secedefrom America Texas

Absolutely. I haven't set a date yet, but I eventually plan on doing that as well.

WOO HOO! Thank You!

Huey Long

Mr. Beat be sure to include Nathan Deal 😀

Throw John Kasich in there too.

Those were my friends! You can find Tabby Cat here: seasonalmenswear.bandcamp.com/album/the-metal-ep and Joyce Foundation here: seasonalmenswear.bandcamp.com/album/passed-out-b-w-sleeping

So it’s not just me who thinks that picture of Burnett is disturbing

Yeah but on the journey from the east to utah he and Joseph smith liked to start trouble in literally every state they got to which is why they were kicked out or even delivered enemies such as with Missouri

IF you believe that then your drinking the Kool Aid.

No sale, Chum.

That may be true, but he was still stoking the fires of paranoia that led to the massage.

That is indeed true, he sent a letter which arrived too late

It was extremely gruesome, although to what extent Brigham was involved himself is debated by historians

She was ok.

Ventura wasn’t that good a governor

@@haroldlawson8771 ventura actually did make it to his best list lol

I'm a former member of LDS. Just get out now bro. It's a scam.

When the Mormons showed up, there were at least 20000 Indians (low estimates). By Brigham's death only about 3,000 remained. If that isn't a failure of leadership, grotesque racism, then I don't know what is. Look up the extermination order against the Utah Timpanogas Indians. If that isn't genocide, I don't know what is.

Seriously, it's like there's a competition!!

I wouldn’t call that “business things” since what he was convicted of was illegal

Yeah, if your idea of a good businessman includes Al Capone or Bernie Madoff.