His running-mate for vice-governor, Basuki Tjahja Purnama, known as Ahok, is an ethnic-Chinese Christian.
Yet defeat could end Mr Menem's hopes, says Mario Fadel, Frepaso's would-be vice-governor.
Two more Velosos are competing for vice-governor, a post formerly held by Alberto's son, who is now running for Congress.
Chinese media reports that the corruption probe that brought down the vice-governor involved land transactions to clean energy companies in Dezhou.
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Nikolai Sadomsky, a vice-governor of Primorsky Krai, says his region has suffered ever since Mikhail Gorbachev unwisely let rail tariffs rise.
As public relations, on the other hand, the June 20 press conference by Chen Yuan, vice-governor of the People's Bank of China, suggests increased government savvy.
He is particularly incensed at reports that former vice-governor Huang Sheng is a relative who helped him obtain cheap land in Dezhou for his solar factories and real-estate projects.
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Yet much as their biographers probe at them, both the vice-president and the governor of Texas emerge as broadly respectable.
Former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a Tea Party favorite who is campaigning for candidates nationwide, favors the vocabulary of hunting and "loaded" guns.
But in the end the smart money is still in the same place that it was this time 12 years ago: on the luckless vice-president rather than the governor.
Vice-President Joe Biden, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley - seen as possible presidential hopefuls - have also backed same-sex marriage.
At 39, he has already been a mayor, a governor and the vice-president of congress.
For me, the potential parallel -- and the key challenge facing Governor Bush -- is how the vice-president's campaign dealt with the gubernatorial challenger.
Can a Vice-Presidential offering for the Virginia governor be far behind?
Whatever the issue--personal responsibility, individual opportunity, respect for life, restoring the rule of law, rebuilding our armed forces and more--Governor Bush trumps Vice President Gore, which is why our future will be brighter and more secure if the Texan tops the Tennessean on Nov. 7th.
Whatever the issue--personal responsibility, individual opportunity, respect for life, restoring the rule of law, rebuilding our armed forces and more--Governor Bush trumps Vice President Gore, which is why our future will be brighter and more secure if the Texan tops the Tennessean on Nov. 7.
So too may Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and vice-presidential candidate in 2008.
Last year, a significant number of deputies declined to endorse the promotion of former Shandong province governor Jiang Chunyun to vice-premier.
Meanwhile, the wealthy publisher Steve Forbes, former Vice-President Dan Quayle and a former Tennessee governor, Lamar Alexander, are pressing on with national campaigns that, officially undeclared, have already taken them through months of bad meals and repetitive speeches to the party faithful.
First, and most obviously, Mr Dukakis ran a disastrous campaign, never finding an answer to the vice-president's attacks on his record as governor of Massachusetts.
You have a number of Democratic governors throughout this country -- Governor O'Malley, Governor Cuomo, Governor Malloy, to name a view, now the Vice President, who all support same-sex marriage.
McCain eventually named Palin his choice for vice president on August 29, catapulting the once-obscure governor into the national spotlight and making her a potential contender for the GOP's No. 1 position in 2012.
Labour's candidate Shaun Wright is the current vice-chairman of South Yorkshire Police Authority, a magistrate, a school governor and a trustee of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust.
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Current Vice-President Elias Jaua is set to run against Mr Capriles in elections for governor of the populous Miranda state, in December.
The address didn't really prove whether the 44-year-old former small-town mayor deserved the job of vice president after just 21 months as governor of Alaska.
Although his anointed successor, Vice President, Nicolas Maduro, is likely to prevail over the newly-reelected governor Capriles in a sympathy vote, he lacks the charisma and political skills of Chavez.
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The following September, with Palin already running for vice president, Young requested a talk with the governor, according to one e-mail.
As Fey collected her trophy, she made reference to Palin, who resigned in July as governor of Alaska less than a year after she was chosen as vice-presidential contender.
If being bland and boring is no barrier to becoming governor of the country's wackiest state, perhaps it need not prevent Vice-President Al Gore taking over from Bill Clinton to become president of the whole country.
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