Trick or treat! The Campaign Spending Commission’s computer system has played a trick on the public. Apparently it’s been down enough that the commission pushed back the deadline for filing the last pre-election disclosure reports from monday until tonight. This is part of the notice posted on the commission’s web site: The Reporting Deadline for [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2008
Friday, continued…Campaign contribution disclosures delayed due to state computer problems
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Campaigns
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Friday…More Lum family coordinated contributions, churn out a novel in 30 days, Kahana report, Sunshine decision, etc.
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Cats, General, Sunshine
Andy Zajac of the Chicago Tribune has a folo today concerning campaign contributions made by the family of Gene & Nora Lum to Michael Brown, son of the late-Ron Brown. One of my t-shirts, now all too well worn (okay, worn out), says: “Real men love cats”. So I was, of course, thrilled to see [...]
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Ooops…partial Friday morning entry posted by accident
October 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · General
Sorry about that. I was drafting part of tomorrow morning’s entry and…poof…hit the wrong key and off it went. I decided to quickly delete…fuller entry will appear again in the a.m.
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Project Vote Smart blasts Hawaii Republican Party attack in 17th District
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · General
Quite a kerfuffle out in East Honolulu over last minute GOP attack ads. We’ve seen a similar GOP tactic out in our part of the Windward side, but the 17th District race between Republican incumbent Gene Ward and challenger Amy Monk is really kicking up the dust. It resulted in a public statement by the [...]
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Another cloudy morning
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · General
Luckily, the heavy rain that started just after 5:30 this morning lasted only about 10 minutes. I headed for the beach about 6. It was very cloudy and threatening, but I didn’t have to deploy the umbrella until I was well into the walk home. In any case, just click on the photo for a [...]
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Thursday…Media stuff, ‘Tiser circulation, USA Today rumor, Meyerowitz on Palin, etc.
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
Who says that a little nudge can’t get results? I complained earlier in the week that the Advertiser’s new online file structure had broken static links to older stories. I even included the error message showing the coding error. I was about ready to stop providing links to the Advertiser since it appeared they would [...]
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Wednesday…Former Hawaii woman turns prodigious GOP fundraiser
October 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Photographs
A former Hawaii woman whose parents and sister were convicted of making illegal contributions to Democratic Party candidates a decade ago has become a leading contributor to presidential candidate John McCain as well as a fundraiser and “bundler” for McCain and other Republican causes. Federal campaign records show Nickie Lum Shapira raised between $100,000 and [...]
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Tuesday night’s mayoral debates on KGMB
October 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · General
Preparing for closing arguments. I hope you’re listening. Hannemann: Not nonbid. It was request for qualifications, and a federal requirement. One contractor contributed heavily to your campaign. And you only cut 7/10 of one percent from the last budget. 8:35 Hannemann questions Kobayashi ad re spending. He refers to her role as budget chair. “You [...]
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