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Post here!Candidates who have taken out papers can with photos and a paragraph or 2. Campaign managers, with instructions to pick up your candidate’s bumperstickers etc. The criteria for publishing is that it must somehow connect to Maui (photos of your candidate with Maui people etc.) or the person must be an already elected Maui official with news. Sign Waving Schedule
See the Kula Candidates Forum on Akaku - Schedule  Shan Tsutsui Sign WavingWednesday, 9/8 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Intersection of Papa Avenue and Kaahumanu Ave  Matt Mano (Maui County Council, Lana'i) Sign Waving:Friday, September 24, 2010: AM/PM sign waving, Kahului Saturday, October 2, 2010: 5:30pm-8:30pm Campaign Dinner, Lana'i  Sign Waving for Angus McKelvey (State House – District 10)Every Friday from Aug 6th to Oct 29th (except Aug 20th and Oct 18th) -- Lahaina Cannery Mall: 3:30PM – 6:00PM  Neil AbercrombieWe will have sign waving at 3:30-5:30PM on the following days. Thursday, September 9 – Wailuku, High Street on the sidewalk in front of the county building Canvassing We will be canvassing on the following days. We will meet at the following locations at 7:45AM, where we will be distributing maps of our assigned areas. Canvassing will end at 11:30AM. Saturday, September 4 – Kahului Shopping Center, Asian Cuisine parking lot Ongoing phone banking efforts to Get Out The Vote: - Mon/Wed @ the Rasmussen's 5:30 - 7:30 pm
- Tues/Thurs @ HQ 5:30 - 7:30 pm
- Please contact our Phone Banking Coordinator Traci Nunokawa at traci.nunokawa@gmail.com for more information
The co-chairs are Sheldon Biga, Nicanor Casumpang, and Karey Kapoi. You may contact them with your questions.  Sign wavings for Kai Nishiki (County Council)4:00 p.m. this Friday September 10th, to sign wave in front of Kahului Shopping Center  Sign Waving For Tasha Kama (House District 8 Wailuku etc.)AM = 6:00-8:00 AM (MORNINGS) PM = 3:00-6:00 PM (AFTERNOONS) AM & PM Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 Kahului Harbor (mauka  Sign Waving for Leona Bak Nomura (County Council) Sign Waving For Joe Bertram (House South Maui)
From 5:30-6:30 on the Pi'ilani across from Safeway on Pi'ikea. 9/7
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 Joe Souki Joe Souki Sign WavingTue., Sep. 7 6:00-8:00 am Waiale Road Prison  Justin Hughey. Call 358.5679 for sign waving schedule.
Labor Day has come to mean many things over the years: the unofficial end of summer, the start of football season, or even just a three-day weekend. Sometimes the real purpose of Labor Day gets lost. So, I wanted to pause on this Labor Day to thank the person this holiday is intended to honor: the American worker. On Labor Day, and every day, Hawaii’s working families are my priority. I often think of the time I was flying out of Lihue Airport late one night. I met a young man who had just started his night shift at the airport. He got to the airport after leaving his day shift at one of Kauai’s resort hotels. He worked like that, two shifts a day, six days a week, to provide for his family. He’s like so many of the people I talk with every day – hard working, persevering, hopeful for the future. So on this Labor Day, ‘mahalo’ to everyone in Hawaii, doing their very best at their job, working with pride, working to move Hawaii forward. AFL-CIO
Primary BallotBallot is Complicated. You need to do 4 areas and 2 sides:
You must choose “Democratic Party” and ALSO vote in ONLY the Democratic Party area on this side of the ballot. Then turn your ballot over and vote in the “Special Nonpartison Offices Ballot” and the “Maui County” area. Confusing isn’t it? You can vote for the school board which is labeled “nonpartisan” but if you vote in the other “Nonpartison” box YOUR BALLOT WILL NOT COUNT!!!
Send a MessageRecently, I sat in court and watched Honolulu attorney Kenneth Kupchak at work. He meticulously attempted to pervert truth and scrambled to weave a story out of tiny scraps of information in his latest attempt at a lawsuit against Council Member Sol Kaho’ohalahala. It’s an exercise in fabricating a case versus working with honest fact. Justice? It has nothing to do with justice. Real information? Nothing there either. Cold, hard cash? Influence with powerful people behind the scenes? Certainly. The unnamed money source behind this extraordinary several-year effort has yet to have a face. What is being perpetrated against Sol Kaho’ohalahala is nothing less than a strategic, slow and painful torture of a keiki o ka aina, one of the finest public servants Maui has ever seen. Inflicting undeserved and untold harm to his family as well as past generations of his Lanai kupuna. More than this, it’s aimed directly at every voter that elected Sol to our Maui County Council. Sol deserves our prayers and our support. If the powers that are playing this out cannot be stopped, then no one will be safe from such twisted attempts to usurp the Maui voters’ power to elect regular citizens to our local government. Sol’s extraordinary vision for our government must have a chance to see the light of day. You can help send a powerful message with a simple vote on Sept. 18 in the mayoral primary. Now that is democracy in action. Sean Lester Why I Won’t Vote for a RepublicanHawaii is in line for $1.1 billion in economic stimulus funds, of which $343 million had been received as of late July, according to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which operates Recovery.org. But Republican Congressional Rep (not for long!) Djou wants to cut these funds off. Most of them go to his district! So even when a Republican appears “nonpartisan” (and the two running for Maui Mayor who have held that office already are both Republicans), I’ve made up my mind to vote Democrat instead. Karen Chun Beware of Fake Phone SurveysThere is a technique called “push polling” which is considered to be dishonest. You get a call (often recorded) that claims to want you to participate in a survey. After a few innocuous questions, the survey questions will start sounding a little odd like: “Do you agree with [name of a candidate] spending all this money for this discredited program?” The question is usually filled with false or misleading information and the survey is not a survey at all but an attempt to get you to think that the candidate mentioned has done these bad things. Or that the good things the candidate has done are bad. If you receive one of these calls, try to get as much information as possible. It is a FCC requirement that the caller identify himself and the committee sponsoring the calls. Then contact the candidate who is being slandered and let him or her know you received such a call. If you receive a call and there is no identifying committee or person, report it to the FCC and the State Attorney. Remember – if the questions start with the assumption that the named candidate did something negative, then you are the victim of one of the scam polls that are considered to be dishonest. GOP: Phase out Medicare, Social SecurityThe GOP has once again blocked extending unemployment benefits as 1,000,000 lose their benefit. Additionally Republican minority leader Boehner said he’d favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70. Just before this GOP Rep Barton publicly apologized to British Petroleum (whose run-away gusher is covering the Gulf of Mexico with oil) for President Obama’s requirement that BP put aside $20 billion in escrow to pay for the oil cleanup and damages. Republican, Barton has received more than $1.5 million in campaign donations from the oil industry, according to Open Secrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. We see how Republicans who appear moderate are toeing the GOP line and blocking passage of unemployment benefits, bank reform, energy reform and so on. Sadly, they appear to be putting politics above the good of their voters. |
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