Drug testing of reporters at the Star-Advertiser? Or just my misunderstanding? Did you happen to see PBS Hawaii’s Leahey & Leahey last night, with guest Stephen Tsai? This weekly program features father & son team, Jim Leahey and Kanoa Leahey in a 30-minute discussion of local sports that often wanders in political and social commentary. [...]
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Documents from latest campaign spending lawsuit
August 31st, 2010 · 13 Comments · Campaigns, Politics
The lawsuit filed on behalf of A-1 A-lectrian Inc. against the Campaign Spending Commission finally made it into the federal court’s online system. I’ve made the full complaint available here. In the lawsuit, A-1 says it should not have to register as a political committee in order to make campaign-related expenditures, should not be subject [...]
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Be very afraid: Campaign Spending law faces major legal challenge
August 30th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Campaigns, Politics
If you happened to miss this story over the weekend, go back and read it (“Firm fights campaign laws“). Bottom line: A leading conservative attorney representing a local electrical company is challenging Hawaii’s campaign laws in an attempt to eliminate both limits on spending by corporations and any reporting of their campaign expenditures and contributions. [...]
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Hannemann and Aiona battle for Christian votes
August 29th, 2010 · 53 Comments · Campaigns, Politics
It’s Sunday, and perhaps an appropriate time to check out the latest from the Hawaii Christian Coalition. I’m not sure which aspect is most interesting/disturbing. There’s the description of the Hanneman campaign’s attempt to persuade Christians to cross over and vote for him in the primary, and pushback from the GOP It has come to [...]
Lt. Governor: Out of sight, out of mind
August 27th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Campaigns, Politics
I spent yesterday at Olelo moderating three panels featuring candidates for Lt. Governor, so read Richard Borreca’s latest column about the job with interest (Lieutenant governor’s job has potential — for irrelevancy). He did a good job rounding up former lt. governors John Waihee and Ben Cayetano for perspective on the job. And his first [...]
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Hannemann’s 1974 arrest record still making the rounds
August 26th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Campaigns, Politics
Former Mayor Mufi Hannemann also has some decades old history making the rounds again this year. Several readers have called it to my attention in recent days. It stems from an incident during a afternoon matinee showing of the blaxploitation film, “Willie Dynamite: Pimp Counsel“, at Honolulu’s old Liberty Theater on July 31, 1974. According [...]
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The background on Neil Abercrombie’s 1977 F-U letter
August 25th, 2010 · 19 Comments · Campaigns, Politics
It looks like both Hannemann and Abercrombie are having to deal with items from the past. In Neil’s case, it’s his somewhat infamous September 1977 “F*** you” letter addressed to then-Board of Education Chairman Noboru Yonamine. In today’s climate, I would guess that a lot of people would agree with Neil’s concisely expressed sentiment about [...]
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Hilo news guild gets contract, readers pick on other coverage
August 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Campaigns, Media, Politics
Newspaper Guild members at the Hawaii Tribune-Herald finally have a new contract. It’s only for two years, and includes a meager 1% pay raise in the second year. Not much, but its the first increase since 2002, according to Baron Sekiya, Hawaii 24/7. Employees had been working without a contract since late last year. With [...]
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