Hawaii lost both of its senators in the last couple of months. Senator Akaka is retiring and Senator Inouye, who was a senator when I was living there as a child, recently died at the age of 88. He spent something like 5 decades in the senate. Amazing.
But do you know what is even more amazing? In January 2013, Hawaii may be sending not one but *two* women to replace these two senators. Mazie Hirono is already scheduled to replace Akaka. And Colleen Hanabusa was Senator Inouye’s preferred replacement for his seat. She has yet to be appointed by Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii’s Democratic governor but we shall see.
Stop me if this is old news. I don’t watch cable TV and news of Inouye’s replacement has been scarce.
So that would take us up to how many women in the senate? Have we cracked 20 yet?
It’s progress. I’ll take what I can get.
One other note. Of the Congressional delegation from Hawaii, both Hirono and Hanabusa are Buddhists, first and possibly second ever in the Senate, and the new representative from the second district, Tulsi Gabbard, is a Hindu.
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