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Council for eight years (four terms), during most of the period between 2002 and 2010. He has also served as a chairman, vice chair or member of every Kauai County Council committee between 1990 and 2010. Asing has also served as a former member of the Hawaii State Association of
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Asing was re-elected to a fourteenth term on the Kauai County
Council in 2008, pledging at the time not to seek another term in office in the future. However, Asing, who was serving as council chairman, surprised many observers by filing for re-election in July 2010 to run for an additional term in
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Asing lost his re-election bid for a 15th term on the Kauai County
Council in the general election on November 2, 2010. The top seven vote getters win election to the County Council, which is composed of seven elected members. Asing finished in ninth place, with approximately 7,705 votes. He left
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primary election held on
September 18, 2010. First-term Kauai County Councilmember Dickie Chang narrowly led Asing for seventh place by just 150 votes, placing Asing in eighth place and out of contention for re-election. Chang had 6,581 votes to Asing's 6,431 votes in the primary. Asing pledged
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308:"Obituaries for Friday, November 18, 2022"
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