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Shan Tsutsui Sign Waving

Wednesday, 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, September 25, 2010: 12:00pm-2:00pm, Ka'ahumanu Mal

Saturday, October 2, 2010: 5:30pm-8:30pm Campaign Dinner, Lana'i
Friday, October 8, 2010: AM/PM sign waving, Molokai
Saturday, October 9, 2010: Canvass, Molokai
Friday, October 15, 2010: AM/PM sign waving, Hana Highway
Saturday, October 16, 2010: Canvass, Hana
Thursday, October, 21, 2010: PM sign waving, Lahaina
Friday, October 22, 2010: AM/PM sign waving, Wailuku
Saturday, October 23, 2010: 10:00am-12:00pm, Costco
Thursday, October 28, 2010: PM sign waving, Lahaina
Friday, October 29, 2010: AM/PM sign waving, Kihei
Saturday, October 30, 2010: Canvass, Kihei

Sign Waving for Angus McKelvey (State House – District 10)

Every Friday from Aug 6^th to Oct 29^th (except Aug 20^th and Oct 18^th) -- Lahaina Cannery Mall: 3:30PM – 6:00PM
Aug 20^th & Oct 18^th – Napili (Across from Napili Market on Honoapiilani Hwy near old ML&P truck yard): : 3:30PM – 6:00PM
Every Monday from Sept 20^th to Nov 1^st – Lahainaluna Rd (across from MauiGrown Coffee/Pioneer Mill Smokestack):6:30AM –8:30AM
Every Friday from September 24^th to October 29^th – Lahainaluna Road (across from MauiGrown Coffee/Pioneer Mill Smokestack): : 6:30AM –8:30AM

Neil Abercrombie

We 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
Thursday, September 16 – Papa Avenue and Kaahumanu Avenue on Kaiser side of the street straight across from the park
Friday, September 17 – Hana Highway, by the Hansen Road Exit
Saturday, September 18 – In front of Kaahumanu Center

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
Saturday, September 11 – Kahului Shopping Center, Asian Cuisine parking lot
Saturday, September 18 – Kahului Shopping Center, Asian Cuisine parking lot

Ongoing phone banking efforts to Get Out The Vote:

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 10^th, 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        
AM & PM   Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010    Paukukalo Hawaiian Homes (mauka)    
AM & PM    Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010    Mokuhau Rd. & N. Market (Happy Valley)    
AM  & PM  Friday, Sept. 10, 2010        Kaahumanu  Ave. (Across of Stillwell’s Bakery)
AM & PM   Monday, Sept. 13, 2010    Waikapu Tropical Plantation (mauka)
AM & PM   Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010    Kahului Harbor (mauka        
AM & PM   Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010    Paukukalo Hawaiian Homes (mauka)    
AM  & PM   Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010    Mokuhau Rd. & N. Market (Happy Valley)    
AM & PM   Friday, Sept. 17, 2010        Kaahumanu  Ave. (Across of Stillwell’s Bakery)

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.

Joe Souki

Joe Souki Sign Waving

Tue., Sep. 7    6:00-8:00 am    Waiale Road Prison
Wed., Sep. 8    4:00-6:00 pm    Sack n Save Bridge
Thu., Sep. 9    6:00-8:00 am    Happy Valley (Frmr. TK Mkt.)
Fri., Sep. 10    4:00-6:00 pm    Sack n Save Bridge
Mon., Sep. 13    6:00-8:00 am    Beach Road
Tue., Sep. 14    6:00-8:00 am    Happy Valley (Frmr. TK Mkt.)
Wed., Sep. 15    4:00-6:00 pm    Beach Road
Thu., Sep. 16    6:00-8:00 am    Sack n Save Bridge
Fri., Sep. 17    4:00-6:00 pm    Sack n Save Bridge
Mon., Sep. 20    6:00-8:00 am    THANK YOU! Waiale Road Prison
Tue., Sep. 28    6:00-8:00 am    Beach Road
Thu., Sep. 30    4:15-6:00 pm    Sack n Save Bridge

Justin Hughey.  Call 358.5679 for sign waving schedule.

Ballot 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.
DO NOT VOTE in the “Free Energy” “Nonpartison” or “Republican” boxes or they won’t count your ballot.

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!!!

Recently, 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
Kula

Hawaii 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

There 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.

The 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.

Nearly 900 delegates, alternates, and other guests from all across the state gathered in Waikiki this Memorial Day weekend for the Democratic Party of Hawai`i State Convention.  But OMG, nobody was prepared for the shocking announcement made on the convention floor Sunday afternoon as former congressman Ed Case, in a stunning display of magnanimity, withdrew from the primary race for the First Congressional District.  Philmund Lee gallantly followed suit to endorse fellow Democratic candidate Colleen Hanabusa as well.  Though two doors may have closed, many more have definitely opened as Hawai`i moves back toward complete democratic representation in congress.

On behalf of the Democratic Party of Hawai`i, I would like to thank you for your hard work in organizing and executing our March 3^rd caucus meetings.  Without your efforts, Maui County would not have been fully represented at our convention.  As it was, Maui County was able to send 83 out of a total 132 delegates allotted to our state convention to have their voices heard.  This is an excellent turn out and we appreciate everything you’ve done to make this convention a success.

As the new chair of the Democratic party of Hawai`i, it is a pleasure to witness the people of Maui county voice their ideas and address the issues we face in the State of Hawai`i.  It is heartening to know that I am able to rely on people like you to make sure that everyone is given the opportunity to participate in making Hawai`i a place where the people have the power!

Mahalo Nui Loa,

Dante K. Carpenter

Chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawai`i

by Rep. Alan Grayson

Next week, there is going to be a “debate” in Congress on yet another war funding bill. The bill is supposed to pass without debate, so no one will notice.

What George Orwell wrote about in 1984 has come true. What Eisenhower warned us about concerning the “military-industrial complex” has come true. War is a permanent feature of our societal landscape, so much so that no one notices it anymore.

But we’re going to change this. Today, we’re introducing a bill called ‘The War Is Making You Poor Act’. The purpose of this bill is to connect the dots, and to show people in a real and concrete way the cost of these endless wars.

Next year’s budget allocates $159,000,000,000 extra (above the already budgeted war funds) to perpetuate the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s enough money to eliminate federal income taxes for the first $35,000 of every American’s income. Beyond that, leaves over $15 billion to cut the deficit.

And that’s what this bill does. It eliminates separate funding for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and eliminates federal income taxes for everyone’s first $35,000 of income ($70,000 for couples). Plus it pays down the national debt.

You must be registered by August 19 to vote in the primary.  And the primary is where all the action is happening this election

http://hawaii.gov/elections/forms/voter_application.pdf

Primary is on a Saturday – Sept 18th.  You can vote absentee (e.g. vote by mail) and get an absentee ballot here:

http://hawaii.gov/elections/voters/voteabsentee.htm

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.