Bill "Kaipo" Asing

William "Kaipo" Ulrich Asing Jr. (September 11, 1930 – October 16, 2022) was an American politician in the US state of Hawaii. 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.

Biography Asing was born in Hā'ena, Kauai.

Career 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 has also served as a chairman, vice chair or member of every Kauai County Council committee between 1990 and 2010. Asing temporarily stepped down as council chairman before taking office as mayor.

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 the Kauai County Council. 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.

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 office on December 1, 2010, when the new council was sworn in.