Governor Lingle vetoes two queer rights laws
Governor Lingle vetoes two queer rights laws Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle vetoed two bills, HB 1450 and HB 1715, that would have prohibited discrimination based on gender identity or expression and sexual orientation. Kim Coco Iwamoto, a civil rights attorney, asked that the Legislature override the vetoes, but the legislature didn't have enough votes to to do so. The quite lame Lingle said that adding such wording to the existing workplace law would "result in controversy and unwarranted lawsuits." �[Date: 15-Jul-05 ]
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