Neil Abercrombie
Neil Abercrombie
Neil Abercrombieis an American politician who served as the seventh Governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 June 1938
CityBuffalo, NY
CountryUnited States of America
achieved belonged kingdom land republic state
Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.
gdp land ownership
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
land airports states
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.
land stuff discrimination
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.
land ideas common
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
land purpose assets
When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
believe
We believe there is not going to be any undermining of the environment.
assigned committees elected house state water
When I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes.
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The best time to achieve solutions is before a crisis, ... The next time a drought comes, it may be too late to act.
survival talking
We are talking about the survival of this country.
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With troops in combat, the Congress has a non-negotiable obligation to weigh in heavily on the side of immediate and near-term needs of the military, particularly the Army. In some cases, this means cutting funds from pie-in-the-sky programs that may work out down the road and funding things that we know work today.
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I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?' 'Well, we have no mechanism to do it,' I was told.
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There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.
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There's a series of benefits - educational, health, etc. - that benefit Native Hawaiians. The revenues are starting to mount into the millions.