Part time Gov Green said we will be fine...we are different than the rest of America...
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/gov-green-on-trump-win-were-gonna-be-fine/
When he was Lieutenant Governor prior to 2022, Governor Green worked with the Trump administration even during the pandemic.
“All of these guys, you know, can be worked with, but we have to remember a couple things. One, we have to fight for our own values here in Hawaii. Our values of ohana, and aloha, are very, very important. We’ve always done better than most of the country. We’ll keep doing that.”
Among the issues important to Hawaii’s voters are abortion access, public education, and climate resiliency, which are policies that could come under heat under President Trump. Governor Green says he has protections in place.
“So reproductive rights, we protected and locked down right off the bat in my 1st year as governor,” he said. “On climate change, I think there probably will be a lot more oil drilling in America. There’ll be a lot, more pressure to, move toward rather than towards renewables. We’re focused on renewables for the most part, but we can use technologies. We can make a difference with, lower carbon, energy, I guess, I would say. We have to move towards hydrogen, and we can do those things, but there probably be will be less support for that from the federal government.”
Pure BS. The SCOTUS, rulings from which Hawaii only sometimes follows, delegated the right to make abortion law back to each state -- as the constitution actually requires. So, anything Green/the legislature does that involves abortions is outside the jurisdiction of the federal government.
Trump is not going to create a national ban on abortions. His nominees for the Supreme Court are responsible for overturning Roe and returning control back to the states.
Sometimes i think our officials are just lying because they received talking points from the DNC. I know that's the case for Congress critters -- i've seen the handouts. I just thought maybe state officials were free of such manipulation and control.
Hawaii's Pre-K-12 is ranked #32 in the nation. I haven't seen that change in the 36 years i've lived here and after sending 2 girls through public schools. Right now there's a horrible teacher shortage. The state is taking shortcuts to accept employees who don't yet meet the certification standards for becoming a teacher. This has been a problem for many years.
Is climate resiliency a 'thing' now? WTF does that even mean? So, i looked it up.
Climate resilience is a concept to describe how well people or ecosystems are
prepared to bounce back from certain climate hazard events.
The formal definition of the term is the "capacity of social, economic and ecosystems
to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_resilienceHow does "social and economic" "cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance?"
Somebody is just making this crap up and getting paid for it.