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  Governor of Hawaii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The governor is responsible for enacting laws passed by the Hawaii State Legislature and upholding rulings of the Hawaii State Judiciary.
The Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii becomes acting governor upon the governor's absence from the state or disability from discharging duties.
By law, the Governor of Hawaii has the power to create his or her cabinet and departments as needed as long as the executive department is composed of no more than twenty bodies and cabinet members.
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 Hawaii - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
US-HI Hawaii (or Hawai‘i) is a state of the United States, consisting of an archipelago of islands in the northern Pacific Ocean.
Hawai‘i is the only island state and is the southernmost state in the U.S. It was also the most recent state (the 50th) to join the Union; it became a state on August 21, 1959.
Hawaii consists of 137 islands comprising a total of 16,636 km2 (6,423.4 square miles).
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 Governor of Hawaii
He or she is commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Hawaii and has the power to use those forces to execute laws, suppress insurrection and violence and repel invasion.
Unlike other states, the office of Governor of Hawaii is a full-time position and requires that he or she be barred from other professions or paid positions during the term.
It is because of this central authority that the Governor of Hawaii is considered the most powerful of the governors in the United States.
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 Encyclopedia: List of Hawaii-related topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, displays the results of 70 million years of volcanism, migration, and evolution—processes that thrust a bare land from the sea and clothed it with complex and unique ecosystems and a distinct human culture.
Kaimū was a small town on the Island of Hawaii in the Hawaiian Islands that was completley destroyed by an eruptive flow of lava from the Puu Oo vent of the Kīlauea volcano in 1990.
Ka Hae Hawai‘i, or the Flag of Hawai‘i Ka Hae Hawai‘i, or the Flag of Hawaii, is the official standard symbolizing Hawaii as a kingdom, protectorate, republic, territory and state.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Hawaii_related-topics   (3295 words)

  
 Many Governors Are Proposing Tax Increases And Other Revenue Measures, Revised 3/31/03
Another 22 governors — out of the 48 governors who have submitted budget proposals for the upcoming fiscal year — have proposed tax increases in their budget proposals that are being considered this spring.
Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner, proposing increases in corporate taxes, cigarette taxes and gambling revenue, said: “While I believe that we have cut costs and made government more efficient, I also believe that there are certain obligations government has and certain services the state provides that should not be eliminated.
The proposals of governors to date suggest that state tax increases in 2003 could be the largest since the early 1990s.
www.cbpp.org /2-6-03sfp.htm   (2748 words)

  
 Governor of Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He or she must be thirty years old and be a resident of Hawaii for five consecutive years previous to election.
Included within the governor's spehere of jurisdiction is complete authority over the monolithic statewide public education system as well as the power to appoint all judges of the various courts within the Hawaii judicial system.
Only the office of Attorney General of Hawaii must be removed by an act of the Hawaii State Senate.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/governor_of_hawaii   (678 words)

  
 Hawaii governor to lobby for Pearl Harbor shipyard - Boston.com - Maine - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Linda Lingle is joining other Hawaii leaders in Washington, D.C., this week to lobby an independent panel weighing the future of the state's largest industrial employer.
Hawaii's political leaders wrote letters to the commission and solicited assistance from military officials.
So are the governors of Maine and New Hampshire, who cut short their time at the National Governors Association gathering meeting in Iowa to make a last-minute pitch to three base closing commissioners who did not visit the Portsmouth shipyard or attend the Boston hearing.
www.boston.com /news/local/maine/articles/2005/07/18/hawaii_governor_to_lobby_for_pearl_harbor_shipyard   (658 words)

  
 Governor of Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Previous to that, they governed from the adjacent [[Iolani Palace.]] Ka Hae Hawai'i The Governor of Hawaii, also called Ke Kia‘aina o Hawai‘i, is the chief executive of the State of Hawaii and its various agencies and departments, as provided in the Hawaii State Constitution Article V, Sections 1 through 6.
Linda Lingle gives the oath of office upon a Torah on December 2, 2002, at the Hawaii State Capitol rotunda by Hawaii State Supreme Court Chief Justice [[Ronald Moon.]] The Governor of Hawaii is limited to two four-year terms.
[[Washington Place is the former Residence of Queen Lili'uokalani and now the home of the Governors of Hawaii.]] The Governor of Hawaii resides in what was once a minor royal Palace of Queen Lili'uokalani and her husband, Prince Consort John Owen Dominis.
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 List of Governors of Hawaii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of governors of Hawaii.
For a comprehensive article about the office, see Governor of Hawaii.
Cayetano was the first Filipino-American elected governor in the United States.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Hawaii   (82 words)

  
 GG - Female Governors in the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Two of the three women governors of Arizona, (Mofford and Hull), had been Secretary of State and assumed the office when the elected governor was unable to complete his term.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, the nation's first woman governor, (she and "Ma" Ferguson were elected on the same day but Ross was sworn in first), won a special election to complete her deceased husband's term but failed to win her bid for election to a full term of her own.
Nine female governors (Blanco, Granholm, Lingle, Martz, Minner, Napolitano, Rell, Sebelius and Walker) will all be serving in July 2004 topping the record high of six set the previous year when 12% of all US governors were women (Granholm, Lingle, Martz, Minner, Napolitano and Sebelius).
www.gendergap.com /government/governor.htm   (408 words)

  
 Former Governors of Hawaii William F. Quinn John A. Burns George R. Ariyoshi John Waihee Benjamin J. Cayetano
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1926.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii on November 14, 1939.
Office of the Governor: State of Hawaii: Previous Governors of Hawaii, including those who were appointed prior to statehood.
www.netstate.com /states/government/hi_formergov.htm   (133 words)

  
 Anti-Expansion Hall of Shame
In January 1893 the Kingdom of Hawaii (actually, at that point, a Queendom) was overthrown by a landowning and commercial elite of Americans and descendants of Americans, with the active assistance of the U.S. ambassador, John L. Stevens.
The Queen reluctantly gave up her throne, and Stevens declared Hawaii a U.S. protectorate and sent word to Washington that Hawaii should be annexed forthwith, lest the instability of the day impel Hawaiians to seek the 'protection' of the British Empire.
Governor Fordice plainly does not know that until 1967 the main proponent of statehood in Puerto Rico was the Statehood REPUBLICAN Party.
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 Growing Hawaii's Technology Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Governor Cayetano envisions Hawaii as a place where the best and brightest from around the world will want to come to test new ideas and where technological breakthroughs in many disciplines can take place.
The Governor's action, which included writing all 49 of his fellow governors, urging them to join him in opposing the bill, has caught the attention of several nationally prominent independent inventors who are now taking a more serious look at Hawaii as a place to do business.
Governor Cayetano has targeted the first phase of this project, on-line business registrations and licensing, to be up and running within a year.
www.state.hi.us /dbedt/hecon/he1-00/grow.html   (1920 words)

  
 CNN.com Specials
With experience as a governor, congressman, Cabinet secretary and ambassador, Richardson boasts a wealth of experience in several of the 2004 presidential campaign's top issues.
His father James ran for governor and later became a federal judge while his mother Ruth was the fourth member of her family elected to the state assembly, and both were founding members of Wisconsin's modern Democratic party.
As governor of Kansas and daughter of a former Ohio governor, Kathleen Sebelius has key political capital in two swing states in the 2004 general election.
www.cnn.com /ELECTION/2004/special/president/candidates/vp.contenders   (3603 words)

  
 2002 Governor's Chairs by State
This is a list of the current Governors' seats, the incumbents occupying them, and the candidacy status of said incumbents.
Lieutenant Governor Scott McCallum assumed the Governor's Chair upon the resignation of Governor Tommy G. Thompson.
Governors of the States of the Union by REGION and subregion
www.thegreenpapers.com /G02/Governor.phtml   (1901 words)

  
 Newsroom - Virtual Presskit - Women Candidates
Until EMILY’s List was founded in 1985, no Democratic woman had been elected to the Senate in her own right, no woman had been elected governor of a large state, and the number of Democratic women in the U.S. House had declined to 12.
EMILY’s List is working to build a Democratic majority in federal and state offices by seizing immediate opportunities and anticipating future prospects to elect pro-choice Democratic women.
EMILY’s List is the largest financial resource for minority women seeking federal office, raising more than $5.7 million to help pro-choice Democratic women candidates of color run for political office.
www.emilyslist.org /newsroom/presskit/women-candidates.html   (377 words)

  
 Governors Of Hawaii - Hawaii Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
List of former Hawaii Governors their terms of service and biographies: William F. Quinn John A. Burns George R. Ariyoshi John Waihee Benjamin J. Cayetano.
Governor of Hawaii Governors of Hawaii have been administering their duties from the Hawaii State Capitol since 1969.
… shall be four Governors over these Hawaiian Islands — one for Hawaii — one for … All the Governors, from Hawaii to Kauai shall be subject to the King.
www.francocalgary.ab.ca /governors-of-hawaii.html   (486 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the Inactive 2004 Democratic Presidential Prospects
We moved Ashe to our "inactive" list because -- by March 2004 -- he had yet to qualify for any primary ballots and did not appear to be attempting to gain ballot access.
California Governor Gray Davis was initially viewed as one of the potentially stronger Democratic hopefuls for 2004 because he comes from vote-rich California and is one of the most successful fundraisers in the party.
We moved Hardy to our "inactive" list because -- by March 2004 -- she had yet to qualify for any primary ballots and did not appear to be attempting to gain ballot access.
www.politics1.com /dems04.htm   (13615 words)

  
 List Of Governors Of Hawaii Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 List of Hawaii-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
A Table for each state's list of state-related topics
This page was last modified 07:58, 19 October 2005.
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 The Political Graveyard: Miscellaneous Areas, Hawaii
The list of cemeteries here is not comprehensive, nor is it intended to be.
Most often this is because (a) the community wasn't listed in standard references, (b) it was split by a county boundary, or (c) it was added to the database too late to classify for this version of the site.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
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 Hawai'i contributes to Ebay auction - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
A Hawai'i travel package will be among the items featured in the Ebay "Auction for America" to benefit victims and families affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Hawai'i's contribution will be a "Come to Hawaii: Rejuvenate the Spirit" package, which includes first-class, round-trip tickets for a family of four from any major U.S. gateway city to Hawai'i on Continental Airlines and a five-day stay at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
"We hope that Hawai'i's contribution to Auction for America, which will be viewed by tens of thousands, sends a little aloha to our friends throughout the world," Cayetano said.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2001/Sep/30/ln/ln03a.html   (226 words)

  
 ESA: Western Governors Make Wish List of Changes
LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Western governors made it clear last weekend at a special meeting of the Western Governors Association that they want species recovered and delisted from the Endangered Species Act, and they want to be part of the process.
Linda Lingle of Hawaii, Judy Martz of Montana and Bill Owens of Colorado said their No. 1 priority for improving upon the Endangered Species Act is to force FWS and NMFS to publicize recovery goals within a certain time after listing.
The governors suggested, and several environmentalists agreed, that while there should be a deadline for establishing recovery goals, how to meet those goals should not be mandated and instead should involve a large stakeholder process.
www.delalbright.com /Access/esa_governors2.htm   (880 words)

  
 State Governors of the 50 States
Democratic Governors Association  The Democratic Governors' Association is an independent, voluntary political organization consisting of the Governors of the states and territories who are members of the Democratic Party.
Republican Governors Association  Founded in 1963, the Republican Governors Association (RGA), is the official public policy and political organization of the Republican Governors of the United States.
Western Governors Association  Serving the Governors of 21 States and US-Flag Pacific Islands.
www.netstate.com /states/tables/st_governors.htm   (141 words)

  
 Governor Of Hawaii Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Governor of Hawaii
State Representative and Democratic candidate for Governor of Hawaii in the 2002 election.
Burl Burlingame reports on the opening of Hawaii All-Star Paintball, a field operated by Brandon Cayetano, son of then-Governor Benjamin Cayetano.
Listing of candidates for Governor, State Senate, State Representative, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, and local elections.
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 Governor's House Washington - Discount Washington Hotel Rooms
The Governor's House is a first class hotel located at 17th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW.
Reminiscent of the famed 'English' style, the Governor's House offers oversized guest rooms designed with the business traveler in mind.
Located in the heart of Washington D.C., the Governor's House is minutes to fine dining, shopping and entertainment venues.
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