In her own words: “I think I’m of the same breed as McCain and Palin.” Linda Lingle, September 2008. Lingle’s current U.S. Senate campaign would prefer to forget all of the fawning over Sarah Palin, and “palling around” with the rest of the Republican right. Let’s just keeping reminding people of Lingle’s actual record. Her [...]
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New Jersey’s Republican governor is reportedly considering pulling the plug on a long-planned $8.7 billion transit tunnel, despite 20 years of planning and $6 billion in federal and state funding commitments, according to a New York Times story yesterday. The tunnel, which was scheduled to be completed in 2017, was designed to double the capacity [...]
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle made the following remarks during a December 21, 2009 press conference to discuss the supplemental budget she has submitted to the 2010 Legislature. It refers to an AP story that appeared in the NY Times and many other newspapers. It will be interesting to see how her comparisons to budget priorities [...]
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A short essay by UH Professor John Rieder criticizes the failure of reporters to follow-up on a question put to Gov. Lingle concerning a possible increase in the general excise tax to provide additional revenue during the current fiscal crisis. Lingle’s reply was that raising the excise tax would make the recession worse, thereby actually [...]
Did you catch the Maui News “sour grapes” editorial this week in response to Gov. Lingle’s speech to the Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce? Lingle had blasted the business community for not providing enough active political support for the Superferry. The Maui News responded by pointing to its own reporting and strong support by the [...]
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University of California faculty are planning a one-day walkout on September 28 to protest the UC administration’s “program of tuition hikes, enrollment cuts, layoffs, furloughs, and increased class sizes that harms students and jeopardizes the livelihoods of the most vulnerable university employees.” Faculty across the county are smarting at a new report showing administrative salaries, [...]
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Lingle’s web blast yesterday, timed just before the arbitration hearing with HGEA and on the eve of the Labor Day weekend, reminded me of that old lawyer joke. If you’ve got the law on your side, pound on the law. If you’ve got the facts on your side, pound on the facts. If neither the [...]
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[This is a continuation of yesterday's notes of a discussion with several very knowledgeable sources at the State Capitol held on a "not for attribution" basis. To clarify--they agreed to take "on the record" questions after providing an overview of the issues, but once there it seemed to me that airing their more candid comments [...]
