Analysis: As chair of the National Governors Association, Cox wants to end the toxic partisanship that impedes real results.
Most of Cox’s predecessors as NGA leaders have used their tenure to highlight an issue that represents a problem common to all states — economic development, for example, or health care or education. Cox hopes to drill more deeply into what he believes is the most serious impediment to solving problems: the rhetorical bombshells and partisan intransigence that inhibit those with opposing viewpoints from producing real results.
Cox also said that what he is hoping to launch is not explicitly an exercise in civility, even if that is part of what might come out of it. Instead, he hopes to find ways to model behavior, particularly among elected officials or community leaders, that will help to lower temperatures while finding some areas for genuine compromise.
Cox knows the resistance he faces. “The political-industrial complex,” he said, is “full of cowards, and when something works, everybody copies it.” He pointed specifically to the preponderance of negative advertising that permeates political campaigns. “I just believe at our core that Americans are good people and they want to see the good in others,” he said, “and we have to offer an alternative.
“I think this one is different because it’s led by elected officials,” he said in an interview. “And in fact, not just any elected officials, [but] the chief executives of the states, some of the highest-profile, most meaningful elected offices we have in terms of how we impact people’s lives. … As far as I know, there’s never been this kind of effort being led by a group of elected officials that really have the capacity to make a difference in this area.
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