Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii threatens to become the new model of Senate inquisitor.
Mazie Hirono, then considered a protégé of Inouye's as a member of the State House, maintained a studied and consistent silence.
One female Hawaii leader doesn't believe that Inouye - who died in 2012 at age 88 - was innocent.
Former Democratic state representative Annelle Amaral, head of the State Senate Women's Caucus back in 1992, recalled to reporters just last year that Inouye "Had been accused and I have said there were nine women I talked to who had told me stories of molestation and rape." But the women refused to file reports, and a Senate ethics panel dropped its investigation.
In 1992, the New York Times quoted Neil Milner, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, as saying that "Cowardice" explained much of the silence about Inouye.
Given the immense power that the late Dan Inouye wielded in Hawaii until his death, I can't place too much blame on her and other feminist Hawaii leaders for ducking the issue and letting a victim such as Lorene Kwock fend for herself.
Senator Mazie Hirono today poses as a brave feminist cultural warrior, but when it really counted in her own backyard in Hawaii, she was AWOL. The same holds true when Bill Clinton's predations were in the news in the late 1990s.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/mazie-hirono-believe-accusers-not-stance-for-daniel-inouye/
Mazie Hirono, then considered a protégé of Inouye's as a member of the State House, maintained a studied and consistent silence.
One female Hawaii leader doesn't believe that Inouye - who died in 2012 at age 88 - was innocent.
Former Democratic state representative Annelle Amaral, head of the State Senate Women's Caucus back in 1992, recalled to reporters just last year that Inouye "Had been accused and I have said there were nine women I talked to who had told me stories of molestation and rape." But the women refused to file reports, and a Senate ethics panel dropped its investigation.
In 1992, the New York Times quoted Neil Milner, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, as saying that "Cowardice" explained much of the silence about Inouye.
Given the immense power that the late Dan Inouye wielded in Hawaii until his death, I can't place too much blame on her and other feminist Hawaii leaders for ducking the issue and letting a victim such as Lorene Kwock fend for herself.
Senator Mazie Hirono today poses as a brave feminist cultural warrior, but when it really counted in her own backyard in Hawaii, she was AWOL. The same holds true when Bill Clinton's predations were in the news in the late 1990s.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/mazie-hirono-believe-accusers-not-stance-for-daniel-inouye/
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