If you want to praise a governor, stop praising Desantis or Abbott and start looking at Gary Johnson’s 2 terms as New Mexico Governor. He’s probably the most libertarian governor we’ve ever had int he US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Johnson#Governor_of_New_Mexico

• Johnson spent $500K of his own money to get elected.
• He vetoed 200 of 424 bills passed in his first six months in office – a national record of 47% of all legislation – and used the line-item veto on most remaining bills.
• In 1999, Johnson became one of the highest-ranking elected officials in the US to advocate the legalization of marijuana. Saying the War on Drugs was “an expensive bust”, he advocated the decriminalization of marijuana use and concentration on harm-reduction measures for all other illegal drugs.
• During his 8 years in office he slashed the size of the state government. He laid off 1200 state employees.
• When he left office, New Mexico has a $1 billion dollar budget surplus
• He vetoed two budgets and when his veto was overwritten, he line-item vetoed this budgets.
• In his first term he raised the amount of money being spent on public educations. When he saw no improvements in test scores, he immediately changed focus on implementing a voucher system.
• He provided strong leadership during the Cerro Grande Fire. Both Democrats and Republicans praised him for how well he handled that.
• Johnson vetoed a total of 750 bills in his 2 terms in office. That’s more than all the other governors in the US COMBINED.