Most are in Milwaukee for the National Governors Association summer meeting.
Others were courting the base at the RedState conference in New Orleans.
One even quietly slipped into an early primary state.
Here’s your quick and easy guide to the 5 most important ways 2016 governors made news this weekend, in descending order.
5. Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal hosted a fundraiser for South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott at a New Orleans steakhouse.
4. Texas’ Rick Perry forgot which state he was in, confusing Louisiana with Florida.
3. Maryland’s Martin O’Malley teased a hungry pack of political reporters with the marginally newsy nugget that he’s laying “framework” for a White House bid.
2. Colorado’s John Hickenlooper declined to criticize Wisconsin’s Scott Walker decision to end collective bargaining for public sector unions.
1. And in the most candidate and revealing exchange of the weekend, Hickenlooper told BuzzFeed’s Ruby Cramer that at 64, he’s too old to be Hillary Clinton’s vice president. ”It’s not gonna happen,” he deadpanned.
The two Hickenlooper nuggets are most revealing because one highlights Hickenlooper’s non-confrontational temperament — (laying into Walker is one of the easiest lines a Democratic governor can deliver) and the other reinforces his past comments that despite media speculation, he appears not to have much interest in national office.
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