Honolulu • Gov. David Ige, who speaks in the quietly measured way of his engineering profession, likes to tout everything Hawaii is doing to battle climate change.
He lights up about the state’s Early College initiative that allows high school students to take enough college courses to earn associate degrees along with their secondary school diplomas. For good measure, he proudly stresses the state’s tolerance and openness (“Everybody’s a minority in Hawaii”) and argues the rest of the country can draw lessons from its more than four decades of nearly universal health care.
But for the moment, the main thing, maybe the only thing, that people back on the mainland know about him is that he’s the governor who forgot his Twitter password on the day his state was shaken by a false warning of an imminent missile attack.