Everybody is somebody's child. (My first job -- 13 -- was in my father's office, btw.) Andy wasn't given the governor's post: he won 2 elections. 2 elections long after the state's attachment to the Democratic Party had evaporated.
I've met the man. (3 times. He's never registered that we've met, but that's on me. Most people don't remember that we've met.) As a man, he's fine when most political types I've met give me hives. His response to armed COVID-protestors on the governor's porch -- amazing. Tell me a politico in our modern climate who wouldn't have had the state police shoot them to flinders.