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The Exchange
Issue 9.14: Cunning Lingle
What Governor Linda Lingle said in a Sept. 16, 2005 press release announcing her appointment of Beverly Wolff Harbin to replace Democrat Kenneth Hiraki in the state Legislature:
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September 29, 2005
"I look forward to working with her in the next legislative session. I appreciate and thank all the candidates who stepped forward to be considered for this position."
What she didn't say:
Let's forget for the moment that the Honolulu Star-Bulletin recently revealed that Lingle approved Harbin even though she owes $125,000 in unpaid state income taxes and has a misdemeanor criminal record (she got a six-month suspended sentence in 1987 for passing three bad checks). State law required Lingle to appoint someone from the same side of the aisle as Hiraki, which meant a Democrat. But here, Lingle outdid even herself, appointing someone who joined the state Democratic Party a mere three days after Hiraki announced his resignation.
-Anthony Pignataro
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