Comments on: A Lazy Sunday in Kaaawa…Time for Obama’s Lanai Pinelads connection http://ilind.net/2008/10/19/a-lazy-sunday-in-kaaawatime-for-obamas-lanai-pinelads-connection/ Ian Lind • Online daily from Kaaawa, Hawaii Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:47:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: zz http://ilind.net/2008/10/19/a-lazy-sunday-in-kaaawatime-for-obamas-lanai-pinelads-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-1086 zz Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:45:25 +0000 http://ilind.net/?p=1152#comment-1086 Linda has been making a big deal about how Obama only lived here "a few years" and is not "from Hawai'i." Call that kettle black, Linda, you go gurl. Linda Lingle Governor, State of Hawaii Taking office on December 2, 2002, Governor Lingle is the sixth elected Governor of Hawaii and the firstwoman to lead the Aloha State since it achieved statehood in 1959. Midway through her first term, Governor Lingle remains committed to building on the significant achievements of the past two years aswell as collaborating with public, private and nonprofit partners to develop solutions to address theaffordable housing shortage and homelessness, improve traffic and transportation statewide, and to makecommunities on all the Hawaiian islands safer. She is also promoting significant health initiativesincluding long-term care, investing in Hawaii’s future by expanding early childhood education and increasing funding for the University of Hawaii system, and lowering the cost of living by cutting taxes. The Governor first served the people of Hawaii in 1980 as a member of the Maui County Council. Shewent on to serve five two-year terms, three representing the island of Molokai. Linda Lingle was elected Mayor of Maui County in 1990. At age 37, she was the youngest person and the first woman to hold thisoffice. In 1994, she won a second mayoral term. Under her leadership, job growth was faster in MauiCounty than anywhere else in the State. Governor Lingle is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. When she was 12, her family moved to SouthernCalifornia, where she attended public schools. She relocated to Hawaii in 1975 after graduating cumlaude with a journalism degree from California State University, Northridge. In 1976, she founded and began serving as publisher of the Molokai Free Press. http://tr.im/fjs Linda has been making a big deal about how Obama only lived here “a few years” and is not “from Hawai’i.” Call that kettle black, Linda, you go gurl.

Linda Lingle
Governor, State of Hawaii

Taking office on December 2, 2002, Governor Lingle is the sixth elected Governor of Hawaii and the firstwoman to lead the Aloha State since it achieved statehood in 1959. Midway through her first term, Governor Lingle remains committed to building on the significant achievements of the past two years aswell as collaborating with public, private and nonprofit partners to develop solutions to address theaffordable housing shortage and homelessness, improve traffic and transportation statewide, and to makecommunities on all the Hawaiian islands safer. She is also promoting significant health initiativesincluding long-term care, investing in Hawaii’s future by expanding early childhood education and increasing funding for the University of Hawaii system, and lowering the cost of living by cutting taxes.

The Governor first served the people of Hawaii in 1980 as a member of the Maui County Council. Shewent on to serve five two-year terms, three representing the island of Molokai. Linda Lingle was elected Mayor of Maui County in 1990. At age 37, she was the youngest person and the first woman to hold thisoffice. In 1994, she won a second mayoral term. Under her leadership, job growth was faster in MauiCounty than anywhere else in the State.

Governor Lingle is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. When she was 12, her family moved to SouthernCalifornia, where she attended public schools. She relocated to Hawaii in 1975 after graduating cumlaude with a journalism degree from California State University, Northridge. In 1976, she founded and began serving as publisher of the Molokai Free Press.

http://tr.im/fjs

]]> By: mahina http://ilind.net/2008/10/19/a-lazy-sunday-in-kaaawatime-for-obamas-lanai-pinelads-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 mahina Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:18:56 +0000 http://ilind.net/?p=1152#comment-1085 It's bitterly ironic that Lingle would bust that exclusionary tactic out when she was accepted. Where is she from? It’s bitterly ironic that Lingle would bust that exclusionary tactic out when she was accepted.

Where is she from?

]]> By: charles http://ilind.net/2008/10/19/a-lazy-sunday-in-kaaawatime-for-obamas-lanai-pinelads-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 charles Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:51:16 +0000 http://ilind.net/?p=1152#comment-1084 I'm still baffled why Lingle would go out on a limb and say that Obama isn't really from Hawaii or words to that effect. I suspect part of it is that she's on the campaign trail, in front of sympathetic audiences, and feels engaging in hyperbole thousands of miles away from home is okay. But, come on. If there is a cultural litmus test in Hawaii, it's when you are asked, "Eh, so what high school you wen grad from?" Uh, what does Lingle say? Granted, when Obama answers, most of us go, "Oh, Punahou" and then are probably unable to ask the followup question of "what year?" since most of us don't know a lot of people that went to Punahou. (At least me and, apparently, Senator Inouye.) But he still passes the test, no? I’m still baffled why Lingle would go out on a limb and say that Obama isn’t really from Hawaii or words to that effect.

I suspect part of it is that she’s on the campaign trail, in front of sympathetic audiences, and feels engaging in hyperbole thousands of miles away from home is okay.

But, come on. If there is a cultural litmus test in Hawaii, it’s when you are asked, “Eh, so what high school you wen grad from?”

Uh, what does Lingle say?

Granted, when Obama answers, most of us go, “Oh, Punahou” and then are probably unable to ask the followup question of “what year?” since most of us don’t know a lot of people that went to Punahou. (At least me and, apparently, Senator Inouye.)

But he still passes the test, no?

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