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
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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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We believe there is not going to be any undermining of the environment.
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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.
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We are talking about the survival of this country.
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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.
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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.
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He formed Democracy for America, which took what was the foundation -- the Internet foundation -- and the enthusiasm, reaching out to the grassroots for his campaign and made it a national campaign,
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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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Once Howard Dean lost the Iowa primary, there was no licking of wounds; there was no baying at the moon. There was, let's move to another stage now. We've got the right idea here.
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Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
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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.