Is being Lieutenant Governor a difficult job?
Yes, it is. After all, it is hard to please all your constituents all the time, and you have to do the best you can. But the most difficult part of it is that we are a citizen legislature. I have a real estate and auction business back home in addition to being Lieutenant Governor. While we are in session, I leave here [Nashville] Thursday at noon. Four and a half hours in the car later, I’m back home. Then I walk into another world, where I have a business to run and an auction just about every Saturday. Monday morning, I come back up here and jump back into this. So you can’t really concentrate on one of the other thing. To me, that’s the hardest part. Are there any shortcuts to doing both jobs? Well, for one thing, I don’t know how a person could do this job without a cell phone, I really don’t. I do a lot of business on my cell phone, and on the long drives back and forth from East Tennessee (a state trooper drives me) I use that phone constantly. There are only one of two places a
