It is disgusting to see these two losers trying to bribe and coerce this primary.  Typical democrat tactic, offer "free" stuff to "help" the people, when in the bigger picture, it does not amount to much....

It is disgusting to see these two losers trying to bribe and coerce this primary.  Typical democrat tactic, offer "free" stuff to "help" the people, when in the bigger picture, it does not amount to much....

My question is/was, "where were you before the storm?"   I thought so.  I didn't notice Hanabusa this morning as there were tons of signs and people at the stop sign before the school where the poll was.  Tons of Hanabusa signs but didn't notice if she was actually there.  After I voted, I was heading to work and there he was, Schatz himself on the side of the road in the rain! 

As a note, the school where the polling was taking place is kind of in between the two precincts.  So residents of 04/01 come from one direction and residents from 04/02 come form the opposite direction.  There is only one road and the school is on that road.  So when you approach it, you only see one candidate's supporters depending on which direction you are coming from. 

Schatz has a twin.  He could appear on both sides of the road if he wanted to.   

Looks like Schatz won.

Whatever else it may be this will be interesting to watch. No one can replace Big Dan. And I know from folks I work with in D.C. that the vultures are already gorging themselves on bits of the monolithic political machine he assembled over the years. Schatz's win might (and I stress ~might~) indicate that attempts to hold most of that machine together will not work - which is typical in DC, anyway.. By 2016 it will probably be too late even if he gets voted out - the machine will be gone, the money under the influence of other people with more clout. Hanabusa couldn't have stopped that from happening but she might have slowed it some, sucking just a little longer at the teat of "more of the same" that has been the norm in Hawaii's politics for a looooong time - for better and worse. That was partly, probably largely, Big Dan's influence.

That's HUGE in terms of Hawaii politics. If the old guard is truly getting rotated out then that opens the possibility of something... new. It'll still take a while but it ~might~ mean openings for other things about Hawaii laws to change.

In any direction. So whatever else it may be this will be quite interesting to watch.