He started off well his first year and then made a series of mis-steps. A bunch of his people had to resign under fire, and he lost his bid for a 2nd term after only two years.

I personally liked his take-no-prisoners style, but he stepped on too many toes and failed to realize that politics is the art of compromise. A leader with great potential who tried to do too much too fast.

The so-called CEO of New Hampshire has no concept of how to govern, how to work with the state legislature. Furthermore, I'm pretty distrustful of anyone who refers to the Arts Industry and the Humanities Industry. The industrial/business model, quite frankly, DOES NOT APPLY to many enterprises, institutions, and communities. He just doesn't get it.

He's stepping on toes and going against politics as usual. He wants to run the State as a business instead. Well, yeah, but more like stomping on toes at random. And his business was successfully sued for sexual harassment, and is now in bankruptcy. He vetoed his first budget, and the overwhelmingly Republican Legislature came within 3 votes (as I recall) of overturning his veto. He vowed not to back down, but after a decent interval signed a nearly identical budget. Sen. Dick Green (R) has denounced him in terms one just doesn't hear used between NH Republicans (e.g. anarchist, for starters), and is considering running against him in the primary just to get him out of there. He has a fair poll rating, but virtually anyone remotely involved in NH politics hates him. He just froze hiring on all non-emergency state positions and proceeded to give himself a waiver to hire a former news anchor as an image consultant for $60,000 a year. And as for his personal morals -- let's just say if he ran as a social conservative he'd have some pretty rough going right now.

Benson got elected on a "No income or sales tax" message but most people didn't know how ultra-conservative his policies would truly be. He alleviated a traffic problem at the toll plaza in Hampton by having the state only collect tolls one-way. Why? Because he got caught in toll traffic one day and wasn't happy about it. I don't trust him.

Craig Benson is capable with more integrity and clear sightedness than any New England govenor.

Great promise.

Seems pretty good.

He's stepping on toes and going against politics as usual. He wants to run the State as a business instead. He knows we can't just continue spending when economics show we need to tighten our belts.