After the embarrassing drubbing former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann took from Neil Abercrombie in last year’s governor’s race, who would have thought he’d have a chance to climb back into one of the state’s top offices just two years later? But the 2nd Congressional District seat opened by Mazie Hirono’s run for retiring U.S. Sen. [...]
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The political gods smile on Mufi Hannemann
September 7, 2011A U.S. Senate race for the ages
July 26, 2011Somebody asked why I didn’t mention Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz yesterday when I ran down the list of possible candidates for Daniel Akaka’s U.S. Senate seat. Schatz has been included in the early speculation and he hasn’t said no, but a candidacy looks highly unlikely with initial polls showing that it would be an uphill [...]
Hanabusa looking like a House candidate
July 25, 2011U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa’s new fundraising missive seems a pretty clear sign that she’ll defend her House seat next year rather than jump into the cowded race for Daniel Akaka’s U.S. Senate seat. An e-mail soliciting funds for her 2012 campaign didn’t exactly specify what office Hanabusa is seeking and she’s said she won’t make [...]
Dueling ex-mayors
May 26, 2011Prominent politicians who lose their jobs can be forlorn figures while waiting for the next election opportunity. Honolulu’s most recent former mayors, Mufi Hannemann and Kirk Caldwell, have been gamely trying to keep their public personas alive on Twitter since September, when Hannemann lost badly to Neil Abercrombie for governor and Caldwell was edged out [...]
Don’t do it, Mufi
October 18, 2010I’m hearing more rumblings that former Mayor Mufi Hannemann has been asking supporters if they think he should run for the West O‘ahu City Council seat being vacated by Todd Apo. Most of those I’ve heard about have advised him not to run, and I hope he listens to them; it wouldn’t be good for [...]
Hannemann rolls the dice on GOP appeal
September 16, 2010Crossover voting has been an undercurrent in the governor’s race, with third-party groups aligned with Mufi Hannemann appealing to Republicans — especially religious conservatives — to pull Democratic ballots and vote for Hannemann. But Hannemann’s direct personal appeal this week to Republicans and religious voters raises the stakes — and the risks. It suggests that [...]
HVCA, HCVA, VCAH: Where’s my Excedrin?
September 9, 2010The Hawaii Venture Capital Association, which has endorsed Neil Abercrombie for governor, is officially accusing Mufi Hannemann supporters of “dirty tricks” for forming a rival Venture Capital Association of Hawaii to endorse Hannemann. HVCA president Bill Spencer sent a cease and desist letter to the rival group, saying it’s linked to Hannemann campaign committee member [...]
HGEA defends Hannemann endorsement
September 7, 2010There’s apparently some dissension in the HGEA ranks about the union’s endorsement of Mufi Hannemann over Neil Abercrombie in the Democratic primary for governor. In an unusual Aug. 30 letter to members, HGEA chief Randy Perreira said Hannemann and Abercrombie have both been good friends to the state’s largest public workers’ union, but that Hannemann [...]
Former GOP leader joins Hannemann campaign
September 4, 2010(Note: This was originally posted yesterday, but I somehow managed to delete it.) Word is that veteran local pol D.G. “Andy” Anderson has joined the upper echelon of Mufi Hannemann’s campaign for governor for the stretch run. Anderson, 80, is a former Hawai‘i Republican chief who was credited with engineering Frank Fasi’s comeback run for [...]
Dueling Christians
September 3, 2010After GOP Chairman Jonah Ka‘auwai sharply criticized the Mufi Hannemann campaign for urging Christian Republicans to pull Democratic ballots in the gubernatorial primary to vote for Hannemann over Neil Abercrombie, another prominent Christian is encouraging just that. Dennis Arakaki, formerly of the Hawai‘i Family Forum, recorded a spot for a group called Island Values saying [...]
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