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Ben Cayetano was the first Filipino American elected governor, and Hirono was the first Japanese immigrant to be elected lieutenant governor. During her tenure as lieutenant governor, Hirono was president of the National Commission on Teaching, America's Future, and the Hawaii Policy Group.
Jul 23, 2018 · Both Hirono and Schatz started in the state House, then got elected as lieutenant governor under more bombastic bosses: Schatz to former Gov. Neil Abercrombie, Hirono to former Gov. Ben...
Jun 7, 2018 · She recalls a breakfast in 1994 when the Democratic candidate for governor, Ben Cayetano, tried to talk her out of running for lieutenant governor. He argued that she wouldn't help the ticket.
With attorney Mazie Hirono as his running mate, Cayetano was voted into office. In 1998, Mayor of Maui Linda Lingle was nominated by the Republican Party to run against Cayetano on an agenda of government reform. For months leading into election day, Cayetano trailed Lingle in the major media polls.
Jun 14, 2024 · Mazie Hirono is a Japanese-born American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and began representing Hawaii the following year. She was the first Asian immigrant and the first Buddhist to serve in the Senate and the first woman to represent Hawaii in that legislative.
Jan 19, 2012 · So sick of the Democratic Party machine was Hawaii’s electorate that it rejected Cayetano’s sitting lieutenant governor, Mazie Hirono, and gave the reins of the state to the first Republican...
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Jun 7, 2018 · Hirono plays the political game with a quiet rage, bred of personal experience. The escape to America from Japan Hirono, pictured at left, with her mother, Laura, who is holding her brother...
