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Issue 9.2: Cunning Lingle

What Governor Linda Lingle said in a June 28, 2005 Associated Press story:

July 07, 2005
"I don't like to override the Legislature's work. They spend a lot of time on these bills… But the public counts on the governor stepping in when there's something wrong with the bills."

What she didn't say:

In 2003, Lingle vetoed a couple bills that even her fellow Republicans supported. One was against a bill loathed by developers that would have made it easier for people to farm on agricultural lands. Another killed a million-dollar appropriation for a statewide air ambulance on the grounds that it would put too much liability on the state. "That is way too bad," then-Republican legislator Brian Blundell told The Maui News at the time. "She wasn't supposed to veto that one."

-Anthony Pignataro

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