Nobody Gets To Run A State For 50 Years Anymore Hawaii Political Life After Dan Inouye

WASHINGTON — For more than 10 years, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz has kept a large, wood-framed mirror in his office lobby. It stands more than 7 feet tall by 4 feet wide and is the last physical vestige of his predecessor, U.S. Sen. Dan Inouye, who died in 2012 at age 88. Occasionally, it’s draped in maile lei, a symbol of respect and status once reserved for Hawaiian royalty. But for Schatz that’s often where the sentiment ends. He tries not to think too deeply about the fact that he occupies the same office as the man he was appointed…