[3] Asing has also served as a former member of the Hawaii State Association of Counties - Real Property Tax Committee.
[3] Asing declined to seek re-election to the council in 1998 to pursue an unsuccessful campaign for mayor of Kauai County.
[5] Mayor Bryan J. Baptiste unexpectedly died of cardiac arrest on June 22, 2008, leaving a vacancy in the office.
[2] Asing was sworn in as acting mayor of Kauai on July 17, 2008, in the rotunda of the Moikeha Building at the Civic Center in Lihue.
[2] He held the office until Mayor Bernard Carvalho was sworn in to fill the remaining two years of Baptiste's term on December 1, 2008.
[11] Asing lost his re-election bid for a 15th term on the Kauai County Council in the general election on November 2, 2010.