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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 :: 8353 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 :: 10542 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 :: 7604 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 :: 6301 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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Poll: Majority of Voters Back Appointed Board of Education
By Selected News Articles @ 11:02 AM :: 6492 Views :: Energy, Environment
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An amendment that would replace the elected board with one appointed by the governor has the support of 54.2 percent of likely voters, according to the automated telephone poll. The survey of 1,151 likely voters was conducted Oct. 11 by Aloha Vote, a Hawaii subsidiary of Merriman River Group.
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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 :: 8141 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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Friday, October 15, 2010 |
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Rasmussen: Aiona, Abercrombie statistically tied
By News Release @ 1:28 AM :: 7083 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Former Democratic Congressman Neil Abercrombie and Republican Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona are now virtually tied in the race to be Hawaii’s next governor.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Aloha State shows Abercrombie picking up 49% of the vote, while Aiona earns 47% support.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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Abercrombie’s missing $190 million
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 6183 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"Mr. Abercrombie was asked point blank how he would find the $190 million he promised to government workers, but once again ducked the answer.
"This is consistent with our opponent's long-standing inability to specifically explain how he would fund his book of promises."
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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Abercrombie comes out against appointed BoE
By News Release @ 11:11 PM :: 6665 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Abercrombie admitted that he does not support an appointed Board of Education, stating that it would not make a difference.
Duke Aiona, Governor Lingle and each of Hawai'i’s past living Governors - Governor Ariyoshi, Governor Waihee and Governor Cayetano - have voiced support for an appointed Board of Education. This bipartisan support for an appointed Board of Education shows that those who have been held responsible for education in Hawai‘i believe it would be a step in the right direction to improve accountability in our education system.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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Honolulu ranks 30th of top 200 US cities in job growth
By News Release @ 7:56 PM :: 9584 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The Milken Institute rankings of 200 largest US metro areas shows that Honolulu has risen from 100th to 55th overall in the combined rankings based on eight measures of job growth used by Milken. The brightest spot for Honolulu is its ranking of 30th in “short term job growth” comparing employment numbers for April 2009 with April 2010.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
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Smart Business Hawaii PAC releases endorsement list
By News Release @ 3:56 PM :: 6761 Views :: Energy, Environment
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PAYCHECKS HAWAII, the private, independent, non-partisan political action affiliate of Smart Business Hawaii (SBH) announced the following federal and state pro business candidate endorsements for the November 2, 2010 Hawaii General Election
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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 :: 10480 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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Kauai’s Baptiste family endorses Aiona-Finnegan
By News Release @ 3:08 PM :: 10161 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Energy, Environment
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"I am endorsing Duke Aiona and Lynn Finnegan because they will provide a hopeful, balanced vision for our island and citizens," said Annette Baptiste. "My family is fully supportive of their campaign for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. At this critical point, I feel that, under their leadership, Duke and Lynn are best suited to address the big issues facing the people of Hawai‘i."
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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 :: 10001 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 :: 10929 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 :: 7650 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 :: 5379 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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Court declines to expand meaning of "preserve in place" in Naue burial case final disposition
By Selected News Articles @ 8:59 PM :: 10093 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Energy, Environment
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...in a hearing on the State’s motion for summary judgment, the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. argued that the court should interpret “preserve in place” as used in the State burial law and administrative rules as prohibiting building over burials. There is no such prohibition explicit in the statutory language and the Court declined to impose such a meaning....
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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 :: 6249 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 :: 10035 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 :: 7802 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 :: 9707 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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Merriman Robo Poll: Abercrombie, Aiona statistically tied
By Selected News Articles @ 12:49 PM :: 6792 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Abercrombie leads 47.2 percent to 44.3 percent (that is a 2.9% margin, which is the margin of error), with 8.5 percent undecided, an automated telephone poll of 1,151 likely voters found.
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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 :: 10180 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 :: 7706 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 :: 8122 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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Maui Hotel & Lodging Association Endorses Duke Aiona and Lynn Finnegan
By News Release @ 9:25 PM :: 9774 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
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“I am pleased that MHLA’s Board of Directors has taken this action to publicly endorse Duke Aiona and Lynn Finnegan,” said MHLA Executive Director Carol Reimann. “The visitor industry is the largest employer of Maui County residents and we must have government cognizant of the industry’s needs.”
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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 :: 10062 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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Aiona Finnegan campaign unveils Policy Agenda for Native Hawaiian Issues
By News Release @ 6:57 PM :: 8576 Views :: DHHL, OHA, Republican Party
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HONOLULU - Duke Aiona and Lynn Finnegan today unveiled their policy agenda for Native Hawaiian issues. First as a judge, and later as Lieutenant Governor, Duke Aiona has been instrumental in advancing Hawaiian causes and tackling issues that disproportionately affect the Hawaiian community.
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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 :: 9915 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 :: 6363 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 :: 11419 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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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
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How the Obama Tax Hikes Affect You
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:09 PM :: 6353 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 :: 9605 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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Hawaii Chamber of Commerce backs Appointed BoE
By News Release @ 11:02 PM :: 7015 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...business leaders we all recognize there are some major challenges within in Hawaii’s public education system and it begins with who is accountable. Currently, there is a grass roots effort started by a wide cross section of people in Hawaii who are trying to make a fundamental change to public education in Hawaii. The group is called “Hawaii’s Children First,” and they support a ballot initiative in the November election to allow for an appointed school board....
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Monday, October 11, 2010 |
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Abercrombie campaigns to shield DoE from Audit
By Andrew Walden @ 10:20 PM :: 9326 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Hawai`i State Auditor Marion Higa's February, 2009 Procurement Audit of the Department of Education looked at only a small part of the DoE procurement budget and found millions of dollars wasted by what she termed "fraudulent unethical behavior." In a single $160 million project, Higa’s auditors identified $21 million in waste. But Neil Abercrombie doesn’t want anybody to dig any further.
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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 :: 10345 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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Post primary “flood of support” for Aiona-Finnegan
By News Release @ 6:55 PM :: 5620 Views :: Energy, Environment
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HONOLULU - Dutch Hanohano, campaign manager of the Friends of Duke Aiona, today announced that the grassroots campaign raised more than $65,000 over the last 14 days of the primary election, from Sept. 4 to Sept. 18, and began the general election campaign with more than $400,000 cash-on-hand.
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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 :: 4895 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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Monday, October 11, 2010 |
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Video: New Aiona-Finnegan TV commercial “Real solutions for all of Hawaii”
By Video @ 3:28 PM :: 6315 Views :: Energy, Environment
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HONOLULU - Duke Aiona and Lynn Finnegan today launched the second television ad of their general election campaign for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The new spot, "Retro," follows Duke and Lynn in a series of b-roll shots as they interact with a wide range of people, including small business owners and their respective families.
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Monday, October 11, 2010 |
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GLBT Democrats: “Abercrombie only candidate who will dismantle laws outlawing slavery”
By News Release @ 3:14 PM :: 5634 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"It took brave political leaders to dismantle laws outlawing slavery…. Neil Abercrombie is the only candidate who shows that kind of brave leadership.”
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Monday, October 11, 2010 |
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Kalihi: 2000 rally for Aiona Finnegan
By News Release @ 12:00 AM :: 7932 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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HONOLULU – More than 2,000 grassroots supporters today joined Duke Aiona and Lynn Finnegan and their families for a pa‘ina in the park at Bishop Museum. Prior to the event, more than 400 supporters lined School Street and Likelike Highway to sign wave for the event.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010 |
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Transformative Change Is Needed in Board of Education
By News Release @ 7:33 PM :: 5958 Views :: Energy, Environment
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- For 40+ years, we've had an elected Board of Education.
- The average term of office of the current elected Board is approximately 8 years.
- One member has been in office for 2 decades. Three members have been in office for more than 1 decade.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010 |
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Djou, volunteers adopt Mililani Waena School
By News Release @ 7:19 PM :: 10104 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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Sunday, October 10, 2010 |
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Aiona Video: Hawaii economy doesn't need more rhetoric
By Video @ 7:16 PM :: 6107 Views :: Energy, Environment
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HONOLULU - Duke Aiona and Lynn Finnegan today launched the third in a series of videos they are sharing online to discuss real solutions for all of Hawai‘i. The third spot, "Power," focuses on reducing the financial burden on Hawai‘i's working families and small businesses.
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