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Issue 10.9: Cunning Lingle
What Governor Linda Lingle says on the homepage of her website www.lindalingle.com about what she did while in office:
August 24, 2006
"[We] strengthened laws to protect the community from crime."
What she didn't say:
Lingle has in the past couple of years given police officers statewide more powers to conduct electronic surveillance on all of us; successfully convinced the courts to start getting teens convicted of dealing drugs banned for life from public places like Ka`anapali Beach; asked for a constitutional amendment that would legalize the currently unconstitutional practice of letting cops search people at airports without probable cause; watched as tens of thousands of arrest warrants sat idle in police stations state-wide; pushed hard for mandatory sentencing laws guaranteed to balloon our prison population, then abandon plans to build another prison on Maui in favor of just throwing more convicted felons into Arizona facilities. Sound like "protecting" the community to you?
-Anthony Pignataro