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M, Nov 29, 7 - 8 pm, Honolulu City Council District 1 candidate debate on KIPO FM 89.3. The 8 candidates with websites have been invited. Details.

M, Nov 29, 2010-Voter registration deadline for Honolulu City Council District 1 special election. How to register.

Th, Dec 9, 2010-Ballots for Honolulu City Council District 1 special election mailed no later than this day. More details on where, when and how to vote. (pdf)

W, Dec 22, 2010-Last day to request absentee ballot (if voter is unable to receive ballot at their residence) for HNL City Council Dist 1 special election

W, Dec 29, 2010, 6:00 p.m.-Deadline for receipt of Honolulu City Council District 1 ballots

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Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

Ronald Reagan Click for audio

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In a war, while one side may ultimately be able to claim victory, both sides lose.

Anonymous

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We are not going to war over a bunch of dead [American] sailors.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, ordering Admiral Lawrence Geis to recall Sixth Fleet aircraft that were on their way to drive off Israeli military forces who were attempting to murder the entire crew of the minimally armed surveillance ship USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), 6th President of the United States

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

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Send an email, make a call, write a letter. We [Hawaii state legislators] need to know what you think and the system works much better if you are involved.

Hawaii state representative Karl Rhoads, District 28 (Palama, Downtown, Chinatown, Sheridan)

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I'd rather be in jail in America than free anywhere else.

Former communist & Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver shortly after he voluntarily returned to the U.S. as a prisoner from seven years as a free man, but an exile, abroad

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. . . . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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He who fears criticism is hopeless. Only those who do things are criticized. To hesitate for fear of criticism is cowardly. If our cause is right be not afraid of criticism, advocate it, expound it, and, if need be, fight for it. Critics always have been and always will be, but to the strong minded they are a help rather than a hindrance. Take your part in life’s stage and play your part to the end.

Thomas Jefferson

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I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal [sic] Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger [All three are retired from government service, but are Council on Foreign Relations members]

James L. Jones, U.S. National Security Advisor, Feb 18, 2009

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Rafael (Del) del Castillo

Rafael (Del) del Castillo

Democrat Running for U.S. Representative (District 1 - urban Honolulu)

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Introduction to following YouTube video:

“DelCastilloHawaii — April 04, 2010 — http://www.rafaeldelcastillo.org - Rafael del Castillo, Obama Health Care Reform, Medicare and Hawaii, Expectations & Challenges - IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT MEDICARE: History does not support the arguments of politicians, such as Charles Djou, that free competition among health insurance companies will reduce the number or uninsured. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, 44 percent of those 65 years of age or older had no health insurance because unbridled competition between commercial insurers had done away with the community rating system that kept premiums down for higher risk patients such as the elderly. That means that if Medicare opponents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Barry Goldwater, and Robert Dole had had their way, chances are you would be paying for your parents' medical care out of pocket.”

Introduction to the following YouTube video:

“March 22, 2010 — Howard Dicus KGMB, KHNL News Now talks to Hawaii Health Care Advocate Rafael Del Castillo about current issues - Hawaii Coalition of Health Lawsuit against Hawaii State.

“Rafael Del Castillo also running for Neil Abercrombie's congressional seat against Republican Charles Djou and Democrats Ed Case and Colleen Hanabusa, Charles Amsterdam and Philmund Lee.

“Del Castillo received his Juris Doctor from the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, May 1997. Del Castillo began his law career at Bays, Deaver, Hiatt, Lung & Rose in October 1997. He assisted the Hawaii Coalition for Health to negotiate consumer-negative terms out of health insurance provider agreements[3]. In May 2001, Del Castillo left Bays, Deaver to carry on the defense of an anti-trust suit.

“In 2002, Del Castillo formed a law firm with Arleen Jouxson-Meyers, M.D. to fight for health care reform in Hawai?i. Del Castillos partnership with Dr. Jouxson-Meyers began with a case against Kaiser Permanente on behalf of a severely brain damaged infant under the Hawai?i Patient Bill of Rights and Responsibilities[4]. Meyers spearheaded the enactment of the bill of rights in 1997 to provide patients an independent expert forum in which to challenge wrongful denials of benefits by health insurance companies.”

del Castillo, Rafael (Del) [Disappeared News] (scroll down Disappeared News page to see del Castillo entry)

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