My mom who
lived, breathed, and slept politics used to say that in Hawaii
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| Voting on Maui is often held at community centers. |
Hawaii, by the way, generally votes along Democratic lines, especially for Congress or President. But we have had a Republican governor, Linda Lingle, who is now running for US Senate. That's an interesting race, and may affect whether the Senate is Republican or Democratic.
So it’s
that time of year… Going to vote tomorrow, and mostly know who I’m voting for,
but realized there are a few candidates that I really didn’t know much
about…How to separate the hype from real stuff? The lies and stuff people say
to get elected versus what kind of people they are? So, I just spent all morning reading candidate bios, researching election guides, and reading about proposed Maui County
Also,
there are many people running for OHA trustee positions, including a friend of
ours, Carmen Hulu Lindsey. DH and I went to one of her events but I wanted to
check out her opposition. Strangely enough, any resident can vote for the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, even if he/she is not of Hawaiian descent.
Here’s a
short list of election guides, candidate information and endorsements from
left, right and center:
- From the Maui News, a 20 page election booklet with candidate platforms and proposedamendments to the county charter. Even if you still don’t know who to vote for, at least look at the charter amendments. It’s a little awkward manipulating the magnification and page up and down, but you’ll figure it out.
- From the independent and brash Maui Time, a list of election endorsements that is a lot shorter than 20 pages. It’s good if you have ADHD or have been taking the election too seriously.
- From the League of Women Voters Hawaii, an easy to read list of candidates and bios. This turned out to be very helpful.
- From the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, an election guide that includes other candidates besides the ones running for OHA. Again, you have to play with the magnification and page settings. It’s a lot of pages and rhetoric to dig through.
- CivilBeat has a list of candidates, and lots of other election reading.
I would
be negligent to not include the donkeys and the elephants, so here you go:
Some
candidates on Maui are shoe-ins… like Mike
Victorino will probably win for County Council again because he’s the dad of
Shane Victorino of Philadelphia Flyers fame. Others are running unopposed, or
have been in power so long…
One further note: I looked at the list of OHA
candidates really seriously for the first time just because I know someone who
is running. It’s a shame that both Rose Duley and Hulu Lindsey are
running for the Maui seat, because I checked
out Rose’s bio and like it, but my vote’s going to Hulu. Hulu is currently anOHA trustee, appointed by Governor Abercrombie when the OHA trustees couldn’t
agree upon a replacement for the retired Maui
trustee. The governor asked her not to run for OHA elections and she agreed,
but a group of other OHA trustees petitioned the governor to let her
run because she had been very helpful in some ceded land settlements because of
her real estate background. No one else
on OHA had a real estate background.
My experience is that she’s an honest person who says what she thinks
and doesn’t snake around, but I wish I could vote for Rose Duley too.
Oh, one other note: I really like Elle Cochran who's running for County Council. She sponsored the GMO labeling bill and I generally agree with her politics.
Oh, one other note: I really like Elle Cochran who's running for County Council. She sponsored the GMO labeling bill and I generally agree with her politics.
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