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This is going to be a close race when Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hanneman declares he is a candidate for Governor of Hawaii. The chances are that former congressman and party loyalist, Neil Abercrombie, might not be the easy winner a Democratic Party leadership connected good ol’ Hawaii boy might have once expected. In fact, just on the face of it Harvard educated Mr. Hanneman is a more attractive candidate. He has outer island appeal that he hasn’t even exploited and Neil has negatives that Mufi also hasn’t even exploited. Hanneman would do better against “Duke” Aiona if he is the Republican candidate in my opinion.

On the other hand, Mr. Abercrombie would look less appealing to many local voters against Aiona. And that doesn’t even take into account the group of older recent arrivals who tend to vote a little more conservatively. Yes, this is going to be an interesting race whether Mufi runs or if he doesn’t.

Mayor Mufi Hannemann’s likely bid to become governor picked up some early neighbor island support with yesterday’s endorsement by the ILWU, but his Democratic opponent, former U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, is urging Hannemann to stay put.

Go here to read the full story. http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20100310_ILWU_backs_Hannemann_in_likely_run_for_governor.html

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WAILUKU — Maui Land & Pineapple Co. has reported a net loss of $123.3 million for last year
That compares to a $79.4 million loss in 2008.

The losses include $20.9 million in costs in the fourth quarter related to the shutdown of pineapple operations at the end of the year, including severance and payments for canceling contracts. It also included a $47.2 million loss in equity on The Residences at Kapalua, and $14.3 million in losses from deferred development plans.

For the fourth quarter of 2009, the company lost $30.4 million, compared to a $70.6 million loss for the same period in 2008.

For more information, see Wednesday’s edition of The Maui News.

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A 300-pound green sea turtle was rescued Monday morning and will be flown to Oahu for diagnosis and treatment.
The female honu had apparently been taken by the high tide and moved to the shallow water nearer to Hanalei Bay some time last night. She had been resting on the beach of the St. Regis Princeville since early Friday, and had orginally come ashore near the Hanalei River last Wednesday.

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I’ve seen the contorted faces of the Republican haters and birthers and the Tea baggers on TeeVee, but until yesterday I had not had that hate directed specifically to me, in person. Now, I worked for more than two decades with law breakers, rapists, killers, serial killers, child molesters, etc. But yesterday, the vitriolic words and the hatred was as intense as any I have experienced over the years from my criminal “clients,” and it came at me from a “nice” Republican lady whom I met in the stacks at the Lihue Borders. At the Photoshop section, we started chatting about the difference between Photoshop Cj4 and Photoshop Elements.

Slow Saturday morning at Borders. It started quite innocently, she a pleasant appearing older caucasian lady, smiled and asked me, an older caucasian man, if I too was a Photoshop enthusiast. After a little conversation I could see she was quite proud of the artwork she showed me in a slideshow on her Ipod. When I complained about the price of the Photoshop Cj4 software, she waved a huge multi-carat diamond engagement ring (worn on her right hand) at me and told me boldly that there was a way to get it free and she knew how. I chuckled and asked what she meant by that.

Adobe, please be aware of this and fix it please. It pisses me off to pay for software that other folks steal. Basically, the short edited version is that she said there is a hole in the propriety schema of Photoshop Cj4 such that one can get the trial version, then get a patch available by directions posted at Utube, and then for Mac users to drop the trial version in the patch, and presto whammo you have a “legal” version. This, she said works with Mac but cautioned not to install any updates from Adobe since that would shut down the program.

I haven’t used pirate programs for many years for many reasons not the least that it is illegal and I wasn’t about to rush out and steal Adobe’s intellectual property. It is theft, pure and simple. But, as I continued to talk to this lady I mentioned that I had a web site, Aloha Politics that was online. I joked that it was lefty leaning. That was it.

This supposedly nice old lady’s face contorted into a corrosive expression of hatred and she spat out at me ” so you’re a socialist then! You must support Obama, he’s a socialist and he is ruining the country!” Her assault was so quick and so intense, that all I could think to say was, “you are a Republican are you?” She replied that she was a Republican with Libertarian underpinnings and since I denied being a socialist, then I must be a communist! She crouched in the fight and flight stance and moving closer she repeated in more vehement terms an assertion that Obama was a socialist and intent upon ruining the country. About this time I began to pivot on my heel and make it outa there for the exit. If a man had spoken to me with the same threatening and disrespectful manner I might have been inclined to hit him. I don’t hit women. I told her that we better not talk anymore and started to leave. As I turned my back to her, she said, “Yea you’d better leave, besides I gave you a free 700 dollar program!” Totally off the F’n wall!

To me this random encounter in Borders on a Saturday is illustrative of how Republican and conservative folks are able to sublimate and compartmentalize their motivations and thinking. A woman that declares herself a conservative Libertarian Republican; a breed of folk that place property and property rights above all else is willing to steal intellectual property from Adobe and to even offer to distribute these stolen goods to strangers. Not only is she fool and also a knave. Does she even know what a “socialist” is other than what the talk show haters tell her? She sure doen’t live by her Republican conservative values. If she did she would pay for property rather than steal it.

Hypocrisy, thy name is the Republican party.

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If someone made the statement, “well he sure doesn’t seem like a Democrat!” it would be a generalization that would immediately be met with admonishment. That person would have to answer interrogatives like “Oh really?! Tell me, exactly how DOES a Democrat seem” and “Obviously YOU don’t understand the intricacies of governing in highly conservative districts!”

He is a member of that ultra conservative religious hate group known as the “Family!” These are the same folks that foster hatred of gays and have the attitude that they are above the rules of ordinary folks.

And what if that so-called Democrat tried to cover up his involvement with “The Family”, the secret religious zealot hate group that has permeated C Street, and has recently been made infamous as the religious group from the US that has a dark and evil brand of “Missionary Work” – in that they go into countries like Uganda and help them to set up death penalties for gays laws.

Unfortunately for Bart Stupak, the man who has vowed to pull a Jim Bunning and sit on Health Care Reform until it suffocates, he’s already been outed as a member in good standing.

Full Story Here: Bart-Stupak-Has-Secrets-He-Doesnt-Want-You-Talking-About

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The debate will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Hawaii Public Radio’s Atherton Studio at 738 Kaheka St. in Honolulu. It will be held before a studio audience, broadcast live on KIPO 89.3 and streamed on www.hawaiipublicradio.org.

HPR political reporter Wayne Yoshioka will serve as moderator.

On Sunday, Abercrombie resigned from Congress to run for the Democratic nomination for governor. Former U.S. Rep. Ed Case, Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou and state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa are vying for the seat in a May 22 special election.

The event will also be recorded by HPR and Olelo Community Television for a later broadcast.

More here!

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The state Department of Transportation’s Harbors Division has awarded a $218,000 contract to Healy Tibbitts Builders Inc. to tow a state-owned barge, which had been used to load vehicles on and off the now-defunct interisland ferry, from Maui’s Kahului Harbor to Honolulu.

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