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Tuesday, October 19, 2010 |
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HGEA too ashamed of its false ads to run them under its own name
By News Release @ 6:27 PM :: 7076 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"As if the lies from mainland special interests weren't enough, the local establishment has launched a smear campaign of its own. The group, called 'Working Family for Hawaii,' is really the Hawaii Government Employees Union, which is apparently too ashamed of its false ads to run them under its own name."
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010 |
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010 |
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Hanabusa ads push $26 billion state bailout, tax hikes
By News Release @ 5:04 PM :: 7342 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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HONOLULU-- In her recent ad, Colleen Hanabusa boasts that she would have voted for the $26 billion state bailout bill that put Hawaii taxpayers on the hook for bailing out fiscally irresponsible state and municipal governments.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010 |
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Obama proposes $10.3 Trillion for welfare--$1million for each family in poverty
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:37 PM :: 4134 Views :: National News, Ethics
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During the administration of President Bill Clinton, conservatives successfully reformed one welfare program in the 1990s: replacing the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with the new Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). But President Barack Obama's failed economic stimulus gutted those reforms. And his budget proposal would spend $10.3 trillion on means-tested welfare over the next decade. Before the current rise in poverty, that was enough to give $250,000 to each person currently living in poverty in the U.S., or $1 million for a poor family of four. Our nation can’t afford another 10 years of failed War on Poverty thinking.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010 |
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It’s Official: Obama Has Now Borrowed $3 Trillion
By Selected News Articles @ 3:03 PM :: 3958 Views :: National News, Ethics
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It took from 1776, when the United States became an independent country, until 1990, the year after the Berlin Wall fell signaling victory in the Cold War, for the federal government to accumulate a total of $3 trillion in debt, according to the Treasury Department. It only took from Jan. 20, 2009, the day President Barack Obama was inaugurated, until Oct. 15, 2010, for the Obama administration to add $3 trillion to the federal debt.
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Monday, October 18, 2010 |
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Obama has difficulty citing any Abercrombie accomplishments
By Andrew Walden @ 9:16 PM :: 7760 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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We couldn’t help but notice Obama's reference to the “Small Business Credit Card Act”—HR 3457 . The bill was introduced in Congress by then-Rep Abercrombie on July 31, 2009. But even with a Democrat-controlled House and Senate, and Dan Inouye’s seniority, Abercrombie’s bill has gone exactly nowhere.
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Monday, October 18, 2010 |
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Losing streak: Mufi, Kirk, Colleen, Dan?
By Jonah Ka`auwai @ 6:20 PM :: 10261 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“Inouye backed Colleen Hanabusa in May’s special election for Hawaii’s first congressional district. She came in second place and is still defying political analysts who believed the seat was a safe Democrat seat by polling behind Republican Charles Djou in recent polls. Inouye also backed Mufi Hannemann for governor and Kirk Caldwell for mayor, both of whom lost their election."
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Monday, October 18, 2010 |
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49 Hawaii Candidates Sign Taxpayer Protection Pledge
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 7136 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Honolulu, Hawaii—An impressive 49 candidates from Hawaii in the November 2nd election have have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, promising to “oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.”
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Monday, October 18, 2010 |
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Meet the Mad Hatter behind bogus Hawaii polls
By Selected News Articles @ 2:12 PM :: 7948 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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It wouldn’t be an election without an October surprise, and sure enough, the 2010 cycle will not disappoint. This time, it’s not some 11th hour accusation about unpaid taxes, illegal nannies or secret love affairs, but an appearance from the Mad Hatter of pollsters whose crazy talk in the final days of the election is making black sound like white and and Nancy Pelosi sound…sane. Well, almost.
Who is the Mad Hatter of the 2010 elections? Friends, follow me on a trip down the rabbit hole…
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Monday, October 18, 2010 |
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Roadmap to victory? Cavasso Surges, Inouye Lead shrinks by 23% in two weeks
By News Release @ 1:18 PM :: 7742 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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From Cam Cavasso Campaign: Just two weeks ago, we sent you our roadmap to victory, analyzing the latest polling in the Hawaii Senate Race. At the time, our opponent, Dan Inouye, held a 36-point lead in the polls. But in the latest poll released yesterday by Rasmussen Reports, Cam is closing the gap, narrowing Inouye's lead to just 13 percent! The poll is also revealing because it shows several trends:
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Monday, October 18, 2010 |
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Abercrombie voted to reject 9-11 Commission Report
By News Release @ 12:48 PM :: 6790 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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He voted against adopting the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, which worked for nearly two years to provide an accurate description of the September 11 attacks and identify the problems that led to the success of the attack.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010 |
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VIDEO: Cam Cavasso’s Plan for Jobs and a 21st Century Economy
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 7517 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Cam Cavasso focuses on addressing the chronic deficits faced by the U.S. Government by addressing Washington’s out-of-control spending and developing a fairer, simpler tax code that avoids the revenue volatility of the current income tax structure.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010 |
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Rasmussen: Inouye 53%, Cavasso 40%--Cavasso leads among Independents
By News Release @ 9:10 PM :: 10160 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In 2004 Inouye won with 75% of the vote so this is quite a come down and a very good sign for Hawaii Republican candidates up and down the ballot.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010 |
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VIDEO: Hanabusa’s Spending Tsunami
By Video @ 2:47 PM :: 9519 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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This is the first American Crossroads independent expenditure campaign ad.
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Saturday, October 16, 2010 |
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VIDEO: Djou-Hanabusa debate
By Video @ 3:12 PM :: 9934 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"Tonight she was unable to articulate anything the Congress had done in the past year that she would have voted against, she was unable to describe how she would encourage job creation and she continued to tout the success of the so-called 'stimulus' bill which has failed by the very standard its proponents set. The people of Hawaii deserve independent, fiscally responsible leadership, not a rubber stamp."
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Friday, October 15, 2010 |
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AUDIO: CD2 candidate Willoughby on Dennis Prager show
By Audio @ 7:24 PM :: 7788 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii CD2 Congressional Candidate featured on Dennis Praeger show.
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Friday, October 15, 2010 |
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National, International media: All eyes on Hawaii as voting begins
By Selected News Articles @ 6:55 PM :: 9903 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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UK Daily Mail, National Journal, Atlanta Journal Constitution, MSNBC First Read, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Daily KOS . . . .
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Friday, October 15, 2010 |
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Democrat Pat Caddell hammers “hypocrisy” of Obama’s “naive idiots” for focus on campaign spending
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 7055 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“These are naive idiots who’ve come out of academia and have never done anything real in their lives, and they are actually in power,” he said. “These are the people we never let in the room when we had serious business to do. Now they’re running the country.”
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Friday, October 15, 2010 |
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A Legal Victory on the Road to Repeal
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:10 AM :: 5862 Views :: National News, Ethics
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On October 23, 2009, a reporter asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): "Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?" Speaker Pelosi shook her head dismissing the question: "Are you serious? Are you serious?" Pressed for a more substantive response later, Pelosi's press spokesman admonished the reporter: "You can put this on the record. That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question."
Yesterday, Roger Vinson, senior federal judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, found it to be a very serious question indeed.
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Friday, October 15, 2010 |
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Abercrombie Pays Off Campaign Supporters with Taxpayers Dollars
By News Release @ 10:41 AM :: 7631 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Citizens Against Government Waste named him “Porker of the Month” in August of 2009 for his constant reach into pockets of hard working Americans to fund useless, ineffective and sometimes even radical programs and ideas.”
Worst of all, Abercrombie has consistently provided large taxpayer funded contracts to his friends in companies like Pacific Biodiesel, which also donate to Abercrombie’s campaigns.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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NTU: Two measures on Hawaii ballot will increase tax burden
By News Release @ 3:22 PM :: 9823 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Taxpayer’s Perspective highlights two ballot measures in Hawaii, including a statewide measure that would give the legislature discretion to use property tax rebates intended for taxpayers and a local measure in Oahu that would create a transit authority to oversee a rail project.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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Djou: The future is not going to come from a bureaucrat
By News Release @ 1:57 PM :: 9319 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"I do not believe the future of our economy is going to come from a bureaucrat," Djou said. "The future of our economy is going to come from an individual, an individual American who takes a chance, goes into the marketplace and creates a job."
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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WSJ: Aloha Republicans?
By John H. Fund @ 12:54 PM :: 10243 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Democratic Governors Association is fighting back with a new ad framing a vote for Mr. Aiona as a vote against President Obama. The ad quotes Mr. Aiona himself saying electing a GOP governor would be a "knock-out punch" against Hawaii's favorite son in the White House.
However, this may not be a risk-free strategy for Democrats. The Republican Governors Association has its own ad up that gently chides Mr. Abercrombie for being out-of-touch with the state. The ad doesn't clobber Mr. Obama, but says: "Maybe people in Washington don't care how you handle the federal budget -- by printing money, raising taxes, and increasing the deficit -- but in Hawaii, we do care."
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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What we see, Hanabusa: What we get, Higher Taxes
By News Release @ 12:33 PM :: 7142 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In her own words, Colleen Hanabusa said in one of her recent advertisements that she is the kind of politician that, “What you see is what you’ll get.” Since she asked for it, let’s take a look at her record…
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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The Tea Party Is Here to Stay
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:53 AM :: 5069 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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At one time, social obligations and services were carried out by community groups, family networks and even local governments. Now, an ever growing and ever more unaccountable federal bureaucracy undermines our spirit of self-reliance and self-improvement by making more and more Americans dependent on Big Government. In 2010, we witnessed a record-breaking surge in American dependence on the federal government including....
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
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Chamber of Commerce rebuts Obama deceit on Foreign Money and Political Spending
By News Release @ 8:28 PM :: 5842 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Myth: The U.S. Chamber is spending foreign money on political activities.
Fact: The U.S. Chamber fully complies with all applicable laws and regulations. No foreign money is used to fund political activities.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
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Blowback: Obama attacks boost funds for pro-Djou commercials
By Selected News Articles @ 8:16 PM :: 9374 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Attacks by the White House and the Democratic National Committee on outside groups like Crossroads and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Collegio said, have helped energize their base and bring in more donations.
The first eight races in which Crossroads will run ads include two for incumbents — Dan Lungren in California’s Third Congressional District and Charles Djou in Hawaii’s First Congressional District.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
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Accretions: Cato Institute jumps into Hawaii beach ‘takings’ case
By Selected News Articles @ 7:35 PM :: 7256 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In 2003, Hawaii passed Act 73, which took past and future title to accretions (the slow build-up of sediment on beaches) from landowners and gave it to the State, changing a 120-year-old rule. While waterlines are unpredictable, the original rule — common to most waterfront jurisdictions — helped establish legal consistency. Indeed, without such a rule, beachfront property becomes beachview property in just a few years.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
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Roll Call: With Djou on Appropriations, Hawaii could have outsized influence
By Selected News Articles @ 4:07 PM :: 9108 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii Rep. Charles Djou may be getting the biggest prize: Boehner said Djou will get a seat on the Appropriations Committee if he wins re-election next month after winning the special election in May to replace Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D). Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye (D) chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, so the appointment would give the island state an outsized influence on Appropriations.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
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Hill Poll: Djou ahead 45-41
By Selected News Articles @ 12:28 PM :: 9522 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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New numbers out Wednesday from The Hill's midterm poll give Djou a four-point lead over Democrat Colleen Hanabusa, despite an Obama endorsement for the Democratic nominee. Djou leads 45 percent to 41, with 12 percent of likely voters undecided.
The poll, conducted for The Hill by Penn Schoen Berland, surveyed 406 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
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Obama admits he looks like “same old tax and spend Democrat” – but Hanabusa wants more of the same
By News Release @ 12:06 PM :: 7218 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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To make matters even worse for Democrat candidates like Hanabusa, President Obama recently admitted in an interview that he realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects,” confirming once and for all that the stimulus was a policy disaster. After leaving small businesses and hard-working families to suffer from Washington’s egregious miscalculations – how can Hanabusa possibly defend the failed trillion-dollar stimulus now?
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
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OHA debate Fact Check: Truth vs Abercrombie
By News Release @ 12:25 AM :: 7663 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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MYTH: Our opponent said that the failure of Congress to pass the Akaka Bill was the fault of Republican Senators.
FACT: Our opponent didn't explain the fact that the 2009-10 Democrat Senate - part of the time with a super majority - has not only failed to pass the Akaka Bill, but has also failed to even bring it to the floor for a vote.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
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Navy, Hunt Corp break promises to Save Ewa Dec 7 battlefield
By News Release @ 9:03 PM :: 9464 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Never has there been a more gross example of the nation's heritage being mismanaged than at the Ewa Field battlefield, where US Marines died in defense of their country on a December 7 Sunday morning, where Navy Region Hawaii allowed this hallowed ground to became a totally forgotten GARBAGE DUMP - until Save Ewa Field brought this gross mismanagement to local and national attention.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
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“Gall, spin, and breathtakingly misleading information”: Hanabusa on GM bailout debts
By Andrew Walden @ 6:38 PM :: 9250 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The April 26 Denver Post agrees:
Exhibiting quite a lot of gall, General Motors is trying to spin the public with an ad campaign launched last week based on breathtakingly misleading information.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
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Abercrombie voted against Hawaii on tax hikes
By News Release @ 3:53 PM :: 6013 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Abercrombie’s record as Congressman for more than twenty years unveils a troublesome pattern. Abercrombie has voted consistently in favor of raising taxes, which hurt local businesses and contribute to the rise of unemployment. Here are just a few....
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
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Leader Boehner Pledges Support to Secure Appropriations Seat for Charles Djou
By News Release @ 3:48 PM :: 10590 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Djou, a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, represents the First Congressional District, which is home to the U.S. Pacific Command, the U.S. Army Pacific, the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the U.S. Pacific Air Force, Pearl Harbor, Camp H.M. Smith, Fort Shafter and Tripler Army Medical Center. Ensuring that these bases and military installations have adequate funding is in the best interest of Hawaii and the United States.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
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How the Obama Tax Hikes Affect You
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:09 PM :: 5987 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Yesterday, Time Magazine senior political analyst Mark Halperin wrote:
"With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters."
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Monday, October 11, 2010 |
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VIDEO: New ad hits Hanabusa on tax hikes, legislative pay raise
By Video @ 11:12 PM :: 9039 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"The fact is Colleen Hanabusa's handlers on the mainland have decided to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to lie about Charles' record and district voters from her own troubling record," said Dylan Nonaka, Hawaii Republican Party Executive Director.
"In this difficult economy, the last thing voters in Hawaii's first Congressional district want is a politician who has voted for just about every tax increase and government regulation imaginable, killing local jobs and paying off her union cronies."
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Monday, October 11, 2010 |
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Democrat Poll: Silent on Gubernatorial race, claims Djou slipping behind Colleen “Broken Trust” Hanabusa
By Andrew Walden @ 8:18 PM :: 9636 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Democrats and the AFL-CIO have been flooding the airwaves and the mailboxes with debunked claims labeled “false” by FactCheck.org and mocked by the Washington Post. The leftist KOS poll and the Democrat poll would make up a polling trend which indicates that these Democrat lies are working. But neither poll is independent, so it is impossible to know whether these poll numbers are merely atmospherics to go along with the barrage of lies.
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Monday, October 11, 2010 |
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If You Cant Beat Them, Silence Them
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:51 PM :: 4586 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The Progressive Movement is desperate. The 2008 election was supposed to be the dawn of a new liberal era. An enlightened bureaucratic elite in Washington was supposed to enact a broad and transformative agenda that would save the economy, return the nation to prosperity, and legitimize big government for a generation. But only the enactment of the agenda occurred, without any of the promised benefits.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010 |
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Djou, volunteers adopt Mililani Waena School
By News Release @ 7:19 PM :: 9440 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Honolulu, HI — Congressman Charles K. Djou (HI-01) was joined by local Cub Scouts and volunteers at Mililani Waena Elementary School today to participate in the Hawaii Jaycees’ Third Annual “Adopt-A-School” Day, an annual day of statewide service to our local schools.
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Saturday, October 9, 2010 |
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WaPo: Spineless Congress’ school funding boondoggle looted food stamps to boost teachers’ union
By News Release @ 7:25 PM :: 9230 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Despite all the negative ads saying Charles Djou voted against funding for schools, we know that actually no Hawaii schools were ever in danger of closing, nor were any teacher jobs at risk. Consider the following from the Washington Post's editorial board. They call this bailout for states a "boondoggle" and that "With schools in session, it's even clearer now than it was then that the numbers were exaggerated and that the measure was in no small part intended to motivate the powerful teachers unions for this fall's midterm elections."
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Friday, October 8, 2010 |
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Djou: Adopt a School Mililani Waena Oct 10th
By News Release @ 7:56 PM :: 11523 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- WHO: Congressman Charles Djou and Honolulu Chinese Jaycees
- WHAT: Adopt-A-School Day at Mililani Waena Elementary School
- WHEN: Sunday, October 10, 2010, beginning at 9:00 AM
- WHERE: Mililani Waena Elementary School
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Friday, October 8, 2010 |
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Aiona: US unemployment numbers undermine availability of federal dollars
By Lt Gov Duke Aiona @ 5:19 PM :: 8102 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"The high unemployment rate at the federal level is a serious concern, especially because my opponent's plan for Hawai‘i depends on dwindling federal deficit-financed dollars."
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Friday, October 8, 2010 |
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GOP movers insulted: Hanabusa rejects “gesture of goodwill”
By Jonah Ka`auwai @ 4:01 PM :: 10080 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...she claimed that the Hawaii Republican Party's gesture of support and goodwill was simply a 'stunt'....
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