Kaipo Asing

Bill "Kaipo" Asing
Mayor of Kauai
In office July 17, 2008 – December 1, 2008
Preceded by	Bryan Baptiste Gary Heu (acting)
Succeeded by	Bernard Carvalho
Personal details
Born	Hā'ena, Kaua'i, Hawaii
Spouse(s)	Patsy Asing
Residence	Lihue

Bill "Kaipo" Asing (born ?) is an American politician. Asing served as the acting Mayor of Kauai from July 17, 2008, until December 1, 2008, following the death of former Mayor Bryan J. Baptiste.

Asing was born in Hā'ena, Kauai.

Kaipo Asing was employed with the Hawaiian Telephone Company for 45 years, including 40 years as a permanent employee and 35 years as a manager and instructor. He spent fifteen years working for the Hawaiian Telephone Company in Honolulu before retiring from the company in December 1991.

Asing was also a member of the International Association of Approved Basketball Officials for twenty-five years.

Asing has served fourteen consecutive two years terms on the Kauai County Council, as of 2010, for a total of 28 years on the council. He was re-elected for his fourteenth and most recent term in 2008. Asing has served as the chairman of the Kauai County Council for eight years (4 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 Counties - Real Property Tax Committee.

Asing declined to seek re-election to the Council in 1998 to pursue an unsuccessful campaign for Mayor of Kauai County. However, he was re-elected to the council two years later.

Mayor Bryan J. Baptiste unexpectedly died of cardiac arrest on June 22, 2008, leaving a vacancy in the office. Baptiste's administrative assistant, Gary Heu, served as acting mayor until the Kauai County Council could choose an acting successor and hold a special election to permanently fill the mayoralship. 0n July 7, 2008, the Kauai County Council unanimously choose Kaipo Asing, who was council chairman at the time, to become acting mayor of Kauai until a special election in November 2008. Asing temporarily stepped down as council chairman before taking office as mayor.

Asing was sworn in as acting mayor of Kauai on July 17, 2008, in the rotunda of the Moikeha Building at the Civic Center in Lihue. He held the office until Mayor Bernard Carvalho was sworn in to fill the remaining two years of Baptiste's term on December 1, 2008.

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