Reply #20: So help me, I had not read this article when I posted the above!

[KamaAina]

it contains both the words "unilateral" and "draconian", used by legislators to describe Lingle's action.

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/hawaiinews/20081017_State_cuts_for_keiki_insurance_stun_officials.html?page=all&c=y

State legislators and the Hawaii Medical Service Association are dazed by a Lingle administration decision to stop funding the Keiki Care Program, heralded as providing universal health coverage for all island children....

"This is another blow to folks already struggling," said Sen. Suzanne Chun Oakland (D, Sand Island-Kalihi-Liliha-Nuuanu-Pauoa-Puunui), one of the key figures in the passage of the legislation. She said the Legislature was "quite proud" of the public-private collaboration to insure all children. Hawaii was only the second state in the country, after Illinois, to have such a program....

"We're all a team here in Hawaii. It's not proper to make unilateral decisions," (Rep. and Sen.-elect Josh -Ed.) Green said. "As long as they can cover every child, it doesn't make a difference, but if they come up one child short, they had better keep working with us for Keiki Care."

House Speaker Calvin Say (D, St. Louis Heights-Palolo Valley-Maunalani Heights-Wilhelmina Rise-Kaimuki) said termination of state funding for the Keiki Care Program "was very draconian on the part of the (Human Services) department."

Seems I'm thinking like a legislator. Hmmm... my present district (like many; on O'ahu, they are roughly four times smaller than city council districts!) has a solidly entrenched incumbent... but I would like to move to a place that allows cats...

edit: emphasis