She picks from all the subjects she cares about and knows about. Awana, who used to accompany former Democratic Honolulu Mayor Eileen Anderson on the campaign trail, also marvels at how easily Lingle adjusts her speeches to groups. Lingle is giving at least one and sometime as many as three speeches a day, and starts most with a self-deprecating joke about coming to Hawaii in 1976. I came to Honolulu because of the family business. I wanted to do something in life that had more respect than that.
Audiences see the punch line coming.
So I became a politician. After spending 10 years on Molokai, six as the island's councilwoman, Lingle moved to Maui but remained on the County Council. Now she is wrapping up her second four-year term as mayor and is looking to become governor. If we pull together, there is nothing we can't achieve. It doesn't matter what the value of the yen is on any given day.