A reader submitted this campaign vignette: Nearly a thousand people attended the 75th Anniversary annual meeting and banquet for the Hawaii State Federal Credit Union at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Coral Ballroom on Saturday night – Willie K was in top form, including a 20+ minute hana hou. Timed perfectly, so that he wouldn’t be [...]
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The State Department of Health announced its intention last month to award a $25,040 no-bid contract to the Healthy Hawaii Coalition, a nonprofit group founded and controlled by Senator Mike Gabbard and his daughter, Honolulu City Councilmember Tulsi Gabbard. The two-year contract from the Clean Water Branch, Environmental Management Division, is “to develop and present [...]
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I’ve noticed this item tucked away in the “Executive Session” portion of recent agendas of the Campaign Spending Commission: *Pursuant to Hawaii Revised Statutes section 92-5(a)(5)–To investigate proceedings regarding criminal misconduct in Docket No. 12-07 concerning a candidate’s failure to report contributions and expenditures as well as untimely deposits of contributions…. Hmmmm. The commission hasn’t [...]
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Hey, what is the governor thinking? Here we are in the midst of an election year where one of the state’s U.S. Senate seats is up for grabs, and Gov. Abercrombie has staked out a position in support of a development that will replace 1,000 acres of prime Oahu agricultural land with nearly 12,000 new [...]
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Dave Shapiro’s Volcanic Ash column in today’s Star-Advertiser raises an overlooked issue. He points out that the leading candidates for House and Senate are old enough that they would never accumulate the kind of seniority that gave Hawaii’s Dan Inouye so much legislative clout. He points out that Hirono, if she wins, would be 65 [...]
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Former governor Ben Cayetano would wipe out his rivals if Honolulu’s mayoral election were held today, according to new poll results published by Civil Beat. Even if you’re not a regular CB reader, you should check this out. Fifty-three percent of likely voters in Honolulu said that if the election were held today, they would [...]
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Thanks to Civil Beat’s Adrienne LaFrance, we now know a bit more about the men behind the smiling Linda Lingle that annoyingly graces the top of the Star-Advertiser’s online edition. LaFrance reports that GOP Senator Roy Blunt, the same one who sponsored last week’s amendment that would have denied employees the right to health insurance [...]
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As residents of Kaaawa, on the windward side of Oahu, we’re firmly in Congressional District 2. That’s the district where Mufi Hannemann is trying to resuscitate his political career, while Tulsi Gabbard, Esther Kiaaina, Bob Marx, and Rafael des Castillo are all trying to emerge as serious challengers to Hannemann in the Democratic primary. Kiaaina, [...]
