The state police are actually in charge of getting me to and from work, as they have been for previous governors, so I don't drive.

Brown was less involved with the legislative process than previous governors.

"We had no faith in the previous governor," he said.

"His pockets were deep," one local official said of the previous governor.

He had been designated the successor by the previous governor, who died.

Other previous governors have been appointed positions within the central government.

Almost all its members, they noted, had been appointed by previous Democratic governors.

For five years, he has lived full time in the mansion, unlike many previous governors.

Still, no previous governor managed it in the last half-century.

"I've seen him be more involved in local legislative races for Republicans than previous governors."