Anthony Garotinho, a football commentator turned tele-evangelist, and his wife Rosinha, who between them governed the state with a startling incompetence from 1999 until 2006, are the most recent examples.
The latest two were a husband and wife team of evangelical protestants, Rosinha Matheus and Anthony Garotinho, who ran the state with a Bible in one hand and cheque book in the other.