U.S. Rep. Charles Djou has gotten a “return to sender” on his proposal to name the Makiki Post Office after one of his predecessors, the late U.S. Rep. Cec Heftel. Heftel’s widow, Rebecca Glass Heftel, objected to the idea in a sharply worded letter to Djou: News of your initiative to name the Makiki Post [...]
Archive for July 2010
Mrs. Heftel to Djou: No thanks
July 21, 2010Mr. Djou conquers Washington
July 20, 2010I received a release trumpeting a national leader of historic importance. “Few members of Congress, let alone a freshman, have had as much impact on the national policies of our country,” it declared. Who was this legislative wonder? Sam Rayburn? Henry Clay? Millicent Fenwick? Tip O’Neill? Shirley Chisolm? “Fighting Bob” La Follette? No, it was [...]
UH sports fee wakes up students
July 18, 2010Having grown up in the golden age of college protests, I’ve found the current student body at the University of Hawai’i to be a pretty apathetic bunch. When protesters got national attention for taking over an administration building at Manoa a few years ago, I was on campus to speak to a class and the [...]
flASHback alert
July 17, 2010Today’s “flASHback” column in the Star-Advertiser: “Hannemann and Manahan make good-sounding ticket”
Carlisle gets SHOPO’ed
July 16, 2010The police union SHOPO’s endorsement of Kirk Caldwell for mayor is a blow to city Prosecutor Peter Carlise, the assumed frontrunner in the September special election to replace Mufi Hannemann after he resigns to run for governor. Carlisle’s main asset is his popularity as a law enforcer during his 14 years as prosecutors, and voters [...]
A timely idea on the homeless
July 15, 2010You never know where an excellent idea might come from, but I applaud Reps. Tom Brower, John Mizuno and Rida Cabanilla for their renewed push to create “safe zones” for homeless campers evicted from parks and beaches. We can’t keep telling the homeless where they can’t be without providing someplace they can be. According to [...]
Politics by cheap attack
July 13, 2010In a continuing attempt to discourage organized anonymous attack politics, I’ve been checking on a new group that’s popped up on Facebook called “Hawaii Residents Against Mufi.” It’s run by an anonymous creator who goes by the alias “Anyone But Mufi” and says it’s “dedicated to preventing Mufi Hannemann from becoming Governor in 2010.” It [...]
Some candidates for governor we can like
July 13, 2010Surprise, they’re the three leading contenders we already have — James “Duke” Aiona, Mufi Hannemann and Neil Abercrombie. So says David Thielen (son of Cynthia, brother of Laura), a Hawaii ex-pat now living in Colorado who did interviews with the three candidates for the Huffington Post that are interesting reading and listening. Distance often has [...]
Mufi’s Rock ‘n Rollman
July 12, 2010Keith Rollman has been a shadowy figure in local politics for much of the last 25 years, a behind-the-scenes operator whose job is to draw attention to his candidate, not himself. He worked mostly for Republican candidates before hooking up with Mufi Hannemann’s mayoral campaign in 2004, and when he’s surfaced publicly in the political [...]
flASHback alert
July 10, 2010Today’s “flASHback” column in the Star-Advertiser: “On civil unions, Neil’s a yes, Duke’s a no, Mufi’s a show.”
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