Do you know the difference between legislative vs executive experience?

Question

What types of decisions are made by an elected official in a legislative seat (congress/senate) vs. executive branch (mayor, Governor)?

How often do they make decisions (legislative and executive)?

What is the day-to-day duties of these elected seats?

Answer 1

Legislators pick and choose what issues they will get involved with.  Then talk to others and come up with ideas to put into legislation.  They make speeches and debate.  

Executives are presented with issues that require decisions all day long.  Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here" re-enforcing the notion that someone has to be accountable for the outcome of those decisions.  Even seemingly small matters can have huge results.  

Answer 2

As a Mayor, Governor, president, military commander your decisions have consequences and immediately affect the lives of other people. You are 100% accountable for the failure and/ or success of the policy you implemented. Governor Palin was elected as a Mayor and then was elected to govern our Nation’s largest state.  She has performed admirably for over 8 years as an executive.

Legislators debate, argue, hash out potential policies and spend most of their time of their time trading favors for support of the issue positions they support. Generally speaking, legislators do not take direct, individual responsibility for a policy's failure. However, they always do their best to advertise and make sure everyone knows that they supported a policy, which has proven successful or one which is seen as beneficial to the current audience in attendance.

Obama was a community organizer in an extremely poor area of Chicago.  His job duties were simple: beg for as many tax payer financed hand outs as he can get and then distribute them to people in the Community he organized. He only worked as a US Senator for 143 days before he started his full time campaign ran for the Presidency.  Yet in that short time, without ever writing or sponsoring a specific bill, voting "Present" rather than Yes or NO on practically every issue ballots and never taking a firm stance or position on any piece of legislation; he was very successful in acquiring Federal Tax Payer funded Earmarks to distribute as he sought fit.  Through stubbornly refusing to support or sign off on Bills relating to issues put forward by other Senators, without first receiving Federal Earmarks in exchange for his signature, Senator Obama truly proved how overly qualified  he is to be our nation’s Commander and  Chief.  You can never say the Obama forgets his friends, for in his extremely brief stint as a US Senator, Obama graciously took approximately $500,000 dollars in Federal Tax money, paid in by all Americans, and dispensed it to fund earmark projects headed by his personal, long time friends Reverend Write and Father Pfleger  in the community he once organized.  There is nothing that compares to the joy I feel knowing my hard earned tax money was spend to support such worthy causes.

YA RIGHT! NOBAMA! He is a conman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWigzBClE...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKhzqG3_D...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH5ixmT83...

Answer 3

The executive usually sets the agenda and is ultmately responsible for the overall outcome of the state of affairs. lesislative usually vote in blocks and are usually directed by the house leadership.I would say that excutive makes more day to day decisions and their decisions are more crucial.Lesislative votes can be more "nuanced".

I think that executive experience is more relevent than legislative.