Lingle to go to Bush's cabinet?

[Miulang]

You know what? Reading this article about your governor makes my stomach turn. Instead of being at home working on your local issues, she's off schmoozing with the Bushies (granted, she's not using state funds to travel, but is she also using vacation time too?), first at the RNC and in the audience of the debates and now on the road with the Prez.

Anyway, my prediction is that if Dubya is re-elected, Linda will be moving into his cabinet because most of the people in his current cabinet are disgusted with his leadership. It wouldn't suprise me in the least bit that if she's not appointed to some cabinet office, she will be appointed Ambassador someplace. And if Bush loses, next time around, she will run for a Senate or Congressional seat.

Miulang

http://starbulletin.com/2004/10/14/news/index2.html

[Linkmeister]

Ha! One more good reason to see he's not re-elected!

I don't see a cabinet job, though. What are her qualifications for any of those jobs? (Which is not to say that some of the current cabinet members have great qualifications, but still...) Two years of governor of a small state in the Pacific and what? Mayor of Maui? (Was she mayor over there? I don't remember. But if so, that's a small county in a small state.)

[Glen Miyashiro]

Well, Pat Saiki didn't have much more after she left her congressional seat, and George H. W. Bush appointed her to head the Small Business Administration.

[Miulang]

Ha! One more good reason to see he's not re-elected!

I don't see a cabinet job, though. What are her qualifications for any of those jobs? (Which is not to say that some of the current cabinet members have great qualifications, but still...) Two years of governor of a small state in the Pacific and what? Mayor of Maui? (Was she mayor over there? I don't remember. But if so, that's a small county in a small state.)
Yeah, she was Mayor of Maui County for a couple of terms. Mostly talk, though.
You think being Governor of a state (even if it's an eency one) isn't enough qualification? Christine Whitman was Governor of CT and she went into the Bush cabinet. You don't think because Lingle had high visibility during the NRC that she's not bucking for another job higher up? I've seen this kind of thing happen way too often (one of the only benefits to being makule :rolleyes: ). And the ones who are puppets for the President (regardless who that might be) tend to get rewarded with cushy jobs. It's not like Lingle is being considered for the Supreme Court or anything like that, where there would have to be Senate confirmation. Political appointments don't have to make sense...and the way Lingle is defending the Prez (instead of the more politically expedient thing of just shutting up and saying nothing) you bet she's gonna count on a handout if Bush is re-elected.


Miulang

[Linkmeister]

Small correction. Christine Whitman was NJ, and she had a strong environmental record for a state which has often been the laughingstock of the country for its pollution (maybe unfairly; I've never been there).

You might be right about the rest, though. As I say, one more reason (although not the largest) to ensure the man is diselected.

Has there been any smell of voter registration fraud in Washington like there has in Oregon?

[Miulang]

Has there been any smell of voter registration fraud in Washington like there has in Oregon?
Not yet, although the company that was collecting voter registration forms is in BIIIIIIG pilikia in Las Vegas, where what they were doing was first reported. Actually, there were similar complaints in FL earlier this year about newly minted citizens going to try to register to vote and getting a Republican form instead of the Democrat one they asked for. I don't know if the same company was involved in that little scandal. I'm sure if that company was tempted to come into WA, the Attorney General's office (she's running for Gov right now) would have done something about it as soon as it was reported in LV.

Miulang

Here the story from Las Vegas: http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2004/oct/13/517659602.html

Here the story from Oregon: http://www.ala.org/al_onlineTemplate.cfm?Section=American_Libraries&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=76329

[Miulang]

Small correction. Christine Whitman was NJ, and she had a strong environmental record for a state which has often been the laughingstock of the country for its pollution (maybe unfairly; I've never been there).

Oh yeah, that's right. The Gov of CT just came out of the closet and decided to step down. :rolleyes: And NJ is pretty polluted, and its inner cities are crumbling. Most of it is a bedroom community for NYC. I do like the names of some of their towns, though: Paramus (I say "Pairamooose" when I want to get da old man mad (he was raised in NJ). :p

Miulang

[Albert]

Good riddance if she does resign to join the Cabinet, although I still hope it won't be a Bush2 decision.

[Glen Miyashiro]

I'd much rather have Lingle as governor and Kerry as president, than Bush as president and someone else as governor. I mean, there are priorities. Linda Lingle doesn't have the power to declare war.

[helen]

The October 20th showing of Conan O'Brian had a showing of Triump the insult dog interviewing various movers and shakers during the third debate in AZ. And the dog interview Linda Lingle.

[Vanguard]

Oh yeah, that's right. The Gov of CT just came out of the closet and decided to step down.

That was Jim McGreevey, Gov of NJ (the bulk of his speech was about coming out, not much about why he's stepping down). The Gov of CT at one point had many accusations against him, including accepting many bribes, but he has repeatedly refused to step down.

[mcnabbmcnow]

You know what? Reading this article about your governor makes my stomach turn. Instead of being at home working on your local issues, she's off schmoozing with the Bushies (granted, she's not using state funds to travel, but is she also using vacation time too?), first at the RNC and in the audience of the debates and now on the road with the Prez.

Anyway, my prediction is that if Dubya is re-elected, Linda will be moving into his cabinet because most of the people in his current cabinet are disgusted with his leadership. It wouldn't suprise me in the least bit that if she's not appointed to some cabinet office, she will be appointed Ambassador someplace. And if Bush loses, next time around, she will run for a Senate or Congressional seat.

Miulang

http://starbulletin.com/2004/10/14/news/index2.html

Where do you get that most people in the current cabinent of Bush are disgusted with his leadership? Did you just make that up out of thin air?

[j3rr3y]

thats the first I've heard of it too. Have any proof?

[Miulang]

From David Briscoe's Associated Press article on Cheney:

In response to a question, Lingle said it was more important for Bush to win the presidency than for Hawaii to be represented by Republicans in Congress...."With four days left, it's more important for the president to get re-elected," Lingle said.

Are we to assume she couldn't care less about Gabbard, Tanonaka, and Cavasso winning?
I'm telling you guys, if Bush gets elected, Linda really really wants to move to Washington, DC! Has anybody asked her that question, and if asked, has she responded? My bet is she would drop you guys in a heartbeat and walk away if she was offered a cabinet position.

Miulang

[Linkmeister]

What cabinet position do you think she's qualified for? Not to denigrate her (much), but I can't think of a single one. Labor? EPA? Nah.

[Miulang]

What cabinet position do you think she's qualified for? Not to denigrate her (much), but I can't think of a single one. Labor? EPA? Nah.
Maybe Dept. of the Interior. She can claim some experience with indigenous peoples (the kanaka maoli) and the bureaucracy that runs it (OHA).

Miulang

[mel]

Governor Lingle intends to serve her full term and run for re-election in 2006.

From the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

Lingle would turn down potential Cabinet post (http://starbulletin.com/2004/10/30/news/story6.html)

At a Thursday news conference announcing a campaign visit tomorrow by Vice President Dick Cheney to Hawaii, Lingle was asked whether she would accept a national post.

"No, I wouldn't," she said.

"People honored us by giving us this opportunity, and we're going to fulfill it," she said. "We have a lot of important issues that we're involved with," she said, including continuing to turn around the economy, increasing public safety and reforming education.

[Konaguy]

Governor Lingle intends to serve her full term and run for re-election in 2006.



That is very encouraging news.She currently has my vote if she runs again in 2006.

[Kalihiboy]

That is very encouraging news.She currently has my vote if she runs again in 2006.

I am curious why do you think she deserves re-election? I'm 100% Democrat, but to be honest I cant think of anything bad or good to say about her at this mid-term point.

KalihiBoy

[pzarquon]

Though you wouldn't know it (given that I've been crammed into Mel's "liberal haven" pigeonhole), even though I reliably lean Democrat I voted for Lingle and, so far, would do so again. I could do without the Bush stumping and the implied - if not implemented - Republican stance on some issues, but as a governor and as a check on a heavily Democratic legislature, she gets good marks from me.

With all the D.C. hobnobbing she's done lately, I can see where Miulang gets her suspicions. And given that the question was asked, it's not an off-the-wall theory.

I am glad, however, that Lingle is now on record saying she'll stay on the job and do the work that needs to be done. Hawaii has had more than its share of mid-term political job-hopping, and it's benefited no one but politicians. Whatever happens tomorrow, nationally and locally, I think I'll feel mostly relief that Lingle - and public servants in general - can stop posturing and preening and get back to work.

[Kalihiboy]

Anyone catch Linda Lingle and Triumph from the Conan O'Brian show a few weeks back? Lingle was in top form praising Bush and the GOP and not letting Triumph get to her so to speak:

http://www.gruntle.org/insub/files/media/video/triumph_spinalley.mov

KalihiBoy