Voter Recommendations for Hawaii Primary Election August 9, 2014

Aloha Hawaii voters,

Despite Hawaii's reputation as a place where all racial groups are minorities living together harmoniously in a spirit of aloha, the most important issues in Hawaii are racial. There are more than 850 racially exclusionary programs for the benefit of ethnic Hawaiians, but no corresponding programs for other ethnicities. A project is underway to assemble a list of ethnic Hawaiians for the purpose of creating a race-based government which will then divide the lands and people of Hawaii along racial lines and will seek federal recognition as an Indian tribe. The Obama administration is doing rule-making in the Department of Interior to help create a Hawaiian tribe and to give it federal recognition. And OHA, a branch of the state government, is cooperating with secessionist groups who want to reinvent Hawaii as the independent nation they say it legally still remains. To understand the threat read the book "Hawaiian Apartheid: Racial Separatism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Aloha State" available in the library, especially Chapter 1 which is also available for free at http://tinyurl.com/2a9fqa

All the recommendations below for voting in 2014 are focused on supporting defenders of unity, equality, and aloha for all, or defeating candidates who promote racial favoritism, racial separatism or ethnic nationalism. Many more details about the reasons for my recommendations are on a webpage at
http://tinyurl.com/k7ynxjc

Remember that the first thing you are required to do on your primary election ballot is to choose one political party, because the purpose of a primary election is for each party to choose who will be its nominee in the general election. Having filled in the oval for one political party, then all of your votes for candidates must be inside that one party (except for candidates who do not declare a party on the ballot because they are running for the non-partisan seats for OHA trustee). Your ballot will be rejected if you vote across party lines, but you can get another ballot and try again.

Remember, all voters regardless of race can vote for OHA trustees. In February 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 to enforce in Hawaii the 15th Amendment of the Constitution which says "the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race", and ordered Hawaii to stop racial segregation in voting for OHA trustees. OHA is a state government agency, and spends money that comes from all Hawaii's people; therefore we all have a right to participate in electing its board of directors.

Two candidates have my strong support in the primary election and will have it again if they survive to the general election:

1. Please vote for Keli'i Akina for OHA trustee in the at-large (no island residency) contest. In the primary election there are 16 candidates for three at-large seats. The top 6 will advance to the general election, where the top three vote-getters will win seats on the OHA board. Although a voter can vote for 1 or 2 or 3 candidates in the OHA at-large contest, I strongly recommend you cast only one vote, for Keli'i Akina, and do not vote for any other candidate in the at-large contest. We don't want other candidates to get more votes than Keli'i Akina. Dr. Akina is the only candidate who publicly proclaims he is proud to be an American (the rest are toying with secession) and Akina is the only candidate who opposes creating a race-based government and opposes racially exclusionary entitlement programs.

2. If you live in Congressional District 2 (rural Oahu and the neighbor islands), please choose a Republican ballot and vote for Marissa Capelouto (against David "Kawika" Crowley). Ms. Capelouto came to Hawaii from the Philippines about 20 years ago, became a U.S. citizen, and is a small business owner (trucking). For several years she has been a member of the Kapolei Neighborhood Board. She opposes the Akaka bill, the OHA nation-building project, and racial entitlement programs. Her campaign webpage is
http://www.votemarissa.com
By contrast Mr. Crowley is homeless, has never held public office, and worst of all he favors secession of Hawaii from the U.S. and favors the Hawaiian racial entitlement programs.

Here are my recommendations for other contests.

U.S. Senate: If you chose a Republican ballot then vote for Cam Cavasso, who has always opposed the Akaka bill and has legislative experience. John Roco is mushy. And Harry Friel came across as a bleeding-heart liberal strongly supporting federal recognition. If you chose a Democrat ballot then please vote for Colleen Hanabusa (against Brian Schatz). Both Hanabusa and Schatz strongly support the Akaka bill, OHA's nation-building project, and Hawaiian racial entitlements. But Schatz is a far-left radical whereas Hanabusa is slightly less leftist. Schatz is already serving on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. He chose June 11, 2013 -- Kamehameha Day -- as the date for his high-profile once-in-a-lifetime maiden speech on the Senate floor, and devoted the speech entirely to push propaganda for federal recognition for a Hawaiian tribe, even though there was no Akaka bill for his colleagues to support and there still is no Akaka bill after a year and a half of the 113th Congress. See my critique of Schatz' maiden speech at
http://tinyurl.com/m3azruz

U.S. House District 1: If you chose a Republican ballot, vote for Allan Levene (against Charles Djou). Djou loudly and publicly supported the Akaka bill and Hawaiian racial entitlements. He proclaimed that as a Republican he could be more effective than a Democrat in persuading his Republican colleagues to support the Akaka bill and racial entitlements. For details about Djou and a transcript of his radio interview about Akaka bill and Hawaiian racial entitlements, see
http://tinyurl.com/9299363
If you chose a Democrat ballot vote for either Mark Takai or Donna Mercado Kim (NOT Ikaika Anderson). Both Takai and Kim have been mostly silent about OHA's nation-building and racial entitlement programs, going along to get along but not pushing those things as enthusiastically as other candidates. Keli'i Akina has not exactly endorsed Mark Takai, but interviewed him for 50 minutes indicating Akina views Takai as a future leader. See http://tinyurl.com/nx73va8
Do NOT vote for Ikaika Anderson who as a city councilman strongly supported the Akaka bill. See video at http://tinyurl.com/nvledok

U.S. House District 2: Hopefully you chose the Republican ballot, and if so, then please vote for Marissa Capelouto (against David "Kawika" Crowley); see point # 2 near the top of this essay.

Governor: If you chose a Republican ballot, please vote for Duke Aiona who has the most experience and is the most likely Republican to be able to defeat the Democrat nominee in November. It's true that Aiona favors the Akaka bill, the Kana'iolowalu tribe-building process, and racial entitlements from which he and his family benefit; however, what makes him different from Djou is that Aiona is running for the state office of Governor whereas Djou is running for Congress. Former Governor Lingle, who was also a Republican, aggressively lobbied Congress for the Akaka bill, but as state Governor she was not there with them every day in their caucuses and they could dismiss her lobbying as something any Hawaii governor would do to for pork-barrel reasons. So it's safer to have Aiona as governor than to have Djou as a Congressman. If you chose a Democrat ballot, please vote for David Ige. Neil Abercrombie served in Congress for 20 years, and successfully pushed the Akaka bill through the House on three occasions. Ige has voted for racial entitlements, but has been fairly quiet about it. See a detailed analysis about Abercrombie at http://tinyurl.com/koeo5p2

Lieutenant Governor: If you chose a Republican ballot, please vote for Warner Kimo Sutton (against Elwin Ahu). Unfortunately both Republican candidates are likely to support Hawaiian sovereignty and racial entitlement programs. However, Sutton is a respected businessman and has been endorsed by the only Republican state senator, Sam Slom who has fought valiantly against the Akaka bill and personally went to Washington to lobby the Senators against it at a crucial moment in 2006. If you chose a Democrat ballot, please vote for Shan Tsutsui (against Clayton Hee). Mr. Tsutsui's views are nearly unknown, but he has served honorably and has experience in the office where he seeks (re)election. Clayton Hee should never be entrusted with statewide office. He was OHA trustee for many years, and chairman for most of that time. He sued the State on behalf of OHA. He used claims that Mauna Kea is sacred to Hawaiians to oppose construction of a telescope on the summit, but then tried to extort the state by saying that if NASA would give $20 Million for Native Hawaiian programs, the issue of sacred land would go away. Hee is a racial partisan above all else.

State Senate District 4: If you chose a Democrat ballot, please vote for Lorraine Inouye. Her opponent Malama Solomon was the primary pusher of Act 195 (2011) which set in motion the Kana'iolowalu process to create a racial registry expected to lead to establishment of a race-based government which will seek federal recognition as an Indian tribe; and she is chair of the Senate Committee which deals with Hawaiian affairs. Solomon is also holder of a Department of Hawaiian Homelands lease which she has illegally subdivided and which has been a focus of news reports about DHHL corruption and mismanagement.

State Senate District 23: If you choose a Republican ballot please vote for Colleen Meyer (against Richard Fale). Mr. Fale has a record of voting with the Democrats in favor of Hawaiian racial entitlements and Hawaiian history-twisting resolutions. See details of his voting record in 3013 at
http://tinyurl.com/aza37f8 Colleen Meyer formerly served in the legislature where she generally voted for racial entitlements, but she seemed less far to the left than Richard Fale.

State House District 13: If you chose a Democrat ballot, please vote for Barbara Haniliak against Mele Carroll who has spent most of her several years in the legislature sponsoring and supporting all manner of ridiculous history-twisting resolutions and racial entitlement bills.

OHA seat representing O'ahu.

There are four candidates. All voters in Hawaii can vote in all OHA contests; the seat is labeled "O'ahu" only because the candidates are required to be residents of O'ahu. Voters in the primary can vote for only one of these O'ahu candidates. The top two vote-getters will then advance to the general election in November. All four of them are racialists, strongly supporting racial entitlement programs. Chris Lum Lee is the best candidate, with a strong background in public service, and a masters degree in business administration in 2009. He thinks OHA should be run more like a business. See his impressive candidate website at
http://www.chrislumlee.com
Peter Apo is the incumbent running for reelection. He formerly served in the legislature. During the tumultuous month of May he said OHA has wasted a lot of money on nationbuilding that could better be spent helping OHA's beneficiaries, and he supported delaying nationbuilding while taking time to provide more education and get more feedback. But he has waffled on disclosing what his views really are; and at one point he removed a position paper from his website. He seems a bit slippery, disingenuous and vague, like the stereotype of a politician.
The other two candidates have little to offer. I predict Lum Lee and Apo with be the two top vote-getters and will then campaign against each other for the November final, forcing each to be more explicit about their priorities. I will reassess my recommendation for the November final election based on what they say after the primary.