From a press release Wednesday (June 19):
Hawaii Rep. Isaac W. Choy is one of 48 state policymakers from across the country selected as a Council of State Governments’ Henry Toll Fellow for the Class of 2013. …
The Toll Fellowship Program, named for CSG founder Henry Wolcott Toll, is one of the nation’s premier leadership development programs for state government officials. Each year, Toll Fellows brings 48 of the nation’s top officials from all three branches of state government to Lexington, Ky., for an intensive six-day, five-night “intellectual boot camp. …”
Toll Fellows alumni include U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, a former Hawaii state Senate president; former North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue and former U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.
This year’s program will be held Aug. 16-21.

Rep. Isaac Choy courtesy Waikiki Natatorium.
—Chad Blair
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