Some quick impressions of the Mufi Hannemann/Neil Abercrombie debate: The “showdown” hype, razzmatazz and cheering that Hawaii News Now favors in its debates is distracting and creates an annoying WWE atmosphere. Allowing booing and jeering by partisans in the audience without trying to control it until it was too late was unconscionable. Hannemann’s delivery was [...]
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Mufi and Neil make their case
August 30, 2010Governor’s race goes to church
August 29, 2010Republican Chairman Jonah Ka’auwai has launched an aggressive push to counter Mufi Hannemann’s courtship of Christian conservatives who support Republican James “Duke” Aiona. In a lengthy message to the Hawai’i Christian Coalition, endorsed by coalition state chairman Garret Hashimoto, Ka’auwai accused the Hannemann campaign of acting “unethically, immorally, and far below reproach” in its efforts [...]
Abercrombie enters mailer wars
August 26, 2010Neil Abercrombie’s latest campaign mailer landed in the box yesterday and it couldn’t be more different from opponent Mufi Hannemann’s controversial “Compare and Decide” shot at Abercrombie’s mainland birth, haole wife, UH degrees and record in Congress. Abercrombie’s piece makes no mention of his opponent. It features a picture of him in a nice suit [...]
Caldwell, Hannemann smarting from Kalihi tax flap
August 24, 2010Acting Mayor Kirk Caldwell is struggling to get on top of the stealth rezonings that have raised the property taxes of 250 O’ahu residents, mostly in Kalihi, by more than 300 percent. The outcry could affect the Sept. 18 election chances of both Caldwell and former Mayor Mufi Hannemann, who handed his former managing director [...]
Compare and Decide II
August 20, 2010A couple of days ago I raised the question of whether Mufi Hannemann blundered with his “Compare and Decide” mailer that denigrated Neil Abercrombie’s mainland birth, haole wife, UH education and congresstional record — and the answer appears to be a clear yes. Hannemann spent much of tonight’s televised debate, which may be the most [...]
Compare and Decide: Did Mufi blunder?
August 18, 2010A political candidate should be concerned about the effectiveness of his campaign mailers when his opponent is circulating them as heavily as he is. That’s the case with Mufi Hannemann’s “Compare and Decide” sheet that landed in local mailboxes over the weekend. I received three in the mail for each of the registered voters in [...]
Hannemann still dogged by Pittsburgh
August 13, 2010Now that the Campaign Spending Commission has ruled on the infractions involved in Mufi Hannemann’s Pittsburgh fundraiser, fining the campaign $225 and a campaign worker $100, I’m still having trouble getting too bothered by what the commission said were relatively minor paperwork violations. While traveling to Washington on city business, the former mayor took a [...]
Mufi embraces Superferry
July 27, 2010An intriguing part of Mufi Hannemann’s economic plan in his campaign for governor is a proposal to bring the Superferry back to Hawai’i. He didn’t flesh out the idea, saying only, “Restore the Superferry. Do it right with environmental protections and an EIS. Don’t waste the taxpayers’ investment.” As appealing as it may seem 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 [...]
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