Hawaii Republican, Democratic parties issue joint statement calling for calm
In show of unity, state s Democratic, Republican leaders condemn U.S. Capitol attack By Allyson Blair | January 6, 2021 at 11:39 AM HST - Updated January 6 at 5:30 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - The chairs of the Hawaii Republican and Democratic parties issued a joint statement Wednesday condemning the violent mob that stormed the US Capitol.
Hawaii Republican Party Chair Shirlene Ostrov and Democratic Party of Hawaii Chair Tyler Dos Santos-Tam said âviolence, vandalism, intimidation and mob rule have no place in our republic.â
âWe strongly denounce todayâs storming of the U.S. Capitol, and call upon the protesters to stand down. We pray for a safe resolution and hope that aloha will prevail,â they said, in the statement.
The Hawaii County Democratic Party has selected three people to potentially fill the spot vacated by State Senator Kai Kahele. Kahele is now the United States Representative for the neighbor islands and rural O’ahu, having been elected on Nov. 3. The selection committee of 44, comprised of the party’s precinct officers and district council officers who reside in Senate District 1, met Wednesday evening to hear from the candidates who applied. The final selections:
Christopher Toshiro Todd, the State Representative for District 2, who has also worked as a football and basketball coach for Hilo students and as a manager for Hawaiʻi Paper Products;
By Julie Borowski
July 05, 2012
“The shocking verdict to uphold the entire ObamaCare law is one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in recent history. Chief Justice John Roberts joined Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor in the majority opinion stating that the individual mandate requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance is not valid under the Commerce Clause but it can survive as a tax.
This ruling officially turns ObamaCare into the largest tax hike in American history and sets a dangerous precedent of virtually unlimited federal power.”
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July 05, 2012
“A big reason for all the hypocrisies and paradoxes is that the 2,409-page health care act is a mess. Even its creators cannot agree whether it involves a mandate, tax or penalty. The public doesn’t like or want it at least the parts it must soon pay for. It was passed only on a strictly partisan vote and under shady means (remember th
Kai Kahele Resigns From Hawaii State Senate - Honolulu Civil Beat
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Less than three weeks before he will be sworn in as a U.S. representative, Kai Kahele on Wednesday stepped down from his state Senate seat.
Kahele, a Democrat who represents Hilo, was appointed in 2016 to fill the seat of his late father, Senator Gilbert Kahele.
On Nov. 3, Kahele was elected to represent Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District in Washington, D.C.
Hawaii state Sen. Kai Kahele at a legislative hearing in 2020. He will be sworn in to Congress in early January. Cory Lum/Civil Beat