Vote for this answer. If you're speaking of the difference in US terminology. A governor is the head of a single state. A senator is the state's representative in the Senate. Each state has two senators, between one and 50 representatives in the House, and only one governor. The governor is the head of a state's executive branch of government, senators are part of the federal legislative branch, and thus neither one really outranks the other.
mangle1. 1  to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing: The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine. 2  to spoil; ruin; mar badly: to mangle a text by careless typesetting.
boondoggle - work of little or no value done merely to look busy. 1  waste, wastefulness, dissipation - useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste; mindless dissipation of natural resources.