She was elected Florida's first black lieutenant governor in 2010, winning office as Scott's running mate.

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For the past two days, Valero had been in contact with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the lieutenant governor's office--both of which understood that there could be no return to normalcy until gas was available again.

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Perry spent six years in the Texas House of Representatives, eight years as agriculture commissioner and one year as George W. Bush's lieutenant governor before Bush was elected president in 2000 and Perry assumed the governor's office.

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