Democratic Party

...we will have to keep a close eye on our election office to see if and when he or someone on his behalf picks up a packet containing the petitions that must be circulated....

Yesterday, Hawaii Democrats held their state convention and speaker after speaker made solemn promises to continue the status quo of one-party rule....

Turtle Bay vividly demonstrates the difference in problem solving between gubernatorial candidate Senator David Ige and Governor Neil Abercrombie....

"...we wrote to our congressional delegation and were told, in no uncertain terms, that we would not be able to secure it...."

State House Majority Whip Romy Cachola, D-Kalihi, has hired Honolulu criminal defense attorney Michael Green to represent him....

"Colleen Hanabusa has voted in support of the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles commission, which proposed cuts to Social Security benefits...."

The budget, which provides $6.189 billion in general funds and $12.147 billion in all means of financing, was characterized by House Finance Chair Sylvia Luke as measured and prudent....

...It wasn't the first time Schatz was forced to put some daylight between himself and his former boss....

A look back at Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie's first 4 years in office and why Hawaii can not afford another term with Abercrombie leading the state....

...Obama has inserted himself into local politics a number of times, most recently in December by endorsing Abercrombie in his race for a second gubernatorial term....

Because of the lack of transparency, it’s not totally clear who actually selected the three candidates from a field of nine....

...leading Democratic senators attended a fundraiser at billionaire Tom Steyer's San Francisco home. The event, for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, also featured former Vice President Al Gore....

This is the same worthless job Abercrombie gave to shut Gary Hooser up back in 2011....

On March 5th, The Democratic Party of Hawaii's Biennial Precinct Meeting is coming to a district near you ....

The poll further illustrates the high unfavorability ratings of Hawaii’s current administration....

...keep an eye on Hawaii, where a surprising poll result showed Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) trailing former Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona (R).....

Aiona's remarkably popular earning a 58-26 favorability score....

The poll, conducted by The Mellman Group, has Schatz leading by four percentage points....

All Recent Polls Consistently Show Unfavorability for Current Administration Remains High....

If he loses their August showdown, Schatz will be the first appointee spurned in a primary since 1996....

93 percent more liberal than the rest of the Senate on economic issues, 73 percent more liberal on social issues, and 71 percent more liberal on foreign policy issues....

We found no small irony in Gabbard quickly taking the seat Faleomavaega waited years to earn....

...Hanabusa is doing little to show she'll be able to close the gap....

Faleomavaega was one of Obama’s earliest backers while then Gov. Togiola Tulafono endorsed then-Sen. Clinton....

This past weekend, the Star-Advertiser's Richard Borreca used the Governor's State of the State as the opening trumpet call for the 2014 governor's race....

“This state would turn into a manufacturing state." -- Rep Rida Cabanilla

Sound financial management required making tough decisions and hard choices. All with NO furloughs** (this is a lie, Abercrombie continued Furloughs, renamed as DLWOP Days)....

This is the first combined House-Senate Majority package since 2008....

We thought the media had turned the corner on the issue of how to handle the disappearance of Faleomavaega....

...UPDATE: Hawaii County Democratic Party January 13, 2014 released the three names sent to Abercrombie by HD5 Democrats....

Yesterday we called on the media to take seriously the tuna content issue being fought out in the Farm Bill in Congress and Samoa News led with a page one story today....

...what remains of Inouye’s mostly Japanese American political machine is fighting for supremacy against a younger and whiter progressive wing that is trying to become Hawaii’s new ruling class....

"Last week Hanabusa accused Schatz of being supported by Democratic "kingmakers".  Ironic since she is claiming the senatorial mantle based on being anointed by the ultimate Democratic Kingmaker - Sen Daniel Inouye."

The names of the three nominees will be released by the Governor or the Chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. ...  (or not)

We had hoped our common sense prescriptions on how to handle questionable statements emanating from the office of Delegate Faleomavaega would have proved persuasive to Samoa News but apparently not....

...Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the first candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....

A key deadline on the election calendar passed with little notice December 3....

...the public is increasingly asking questions about his lengthy, apparent disappearance from public view....

Samoa News deserves credit for publishing a story in today's paper about the virtual disappearance of our delegate to Congress....

No reasons were given for his absence and he is still listed on the Committee's website as Ranking Member of the subcommittee....

We will be watching via internet to see if he shows up at his subcommittee session tomorrow....

HD5 Democrats are required to submit names of three HD5 Democrats to the Governor.  Abercrombie will pick one of the three....

It has been almost a month now since Delegate Faleomavaega was stricken with some unrevealed ailment after arriving on an evening flight from Honolulu to Pago Pago....

Although it dismissed the lawsuit -- the Party raised only a facial claim -- the court left open the possibility of an as-applied challenge....

The court upholds Hawaii’s open primary election against this facial constitutional challenge....

...our race is virtually tied, 38-36, with a little more than eight months to go before the start of early voting....

Brian Schatz just sent around an insulting memo...arguing that the ideology of a single group of voters will trump the broad coalition of interests that has made Hawaii the warm, inclusive place we all love....