Cash flows to Lingle (Repuke-HI) campaign (for 2006!!)

[KamaAina]

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Jul/31/ln/ln17a.html

Lingle's campaign raised nearly $669,000 in contributions and received about $50,000 in account refunds and loans. In comparison, former Gov. Ben Cayetano's campaign raised $2,500 in the first six months of the year following his 1994 election victory.

"This early in the campaign, it is kind of unusual," said state Campaign Spending Commission executive director Bob Watada. "But not that surprising because she said that she is going to be running (in 2006). And she's had several fund-raisers."...

...Lingle had spent a record $5.4 million in the past election — the most any candidate had spent in a Hawai'i governor's race — to become the state's first Republican governor in 40 years.

Wow! Only 5.4 mill for America's only Pacific state? I'd have to consider that a raging bargain -- then again, I don't exactly have the 5.4 mill...

It would hardly be noteworthy that a Cheap Labor Conservative is piling up the big campaign bucks -- except that she just got in office last December!! The engraver had hardly finished the nameplate for her desk before she got out there and started raising mo' money, mo' money, MO' money! to ensure that we have to endure four more years of Fascism Lite (TM). I'd consider heading to Cali, but they could be weeks away from reverting to Our Original Brand Fascism (TM)! What's a poor progressive boy, who can't deal with the cold, to do?

[The Sushi Bandit]

1. Who is going to beat her... the mayor of honolulu??

She won cause the current democrats on da islands is all corrupt!
Mayor Harris is always being investagated.. who you gona get??

June Jones for Gov!

[KamaAina]

2. All corrupt? Ed Case, corrupt?

the current democrats on da islands is all corrupt

Case may be many things (I'm still seething over his vote to weaken Federal special ed. law!), but corrupt? I don't think so.

What about Hirono? How, exactly, is she corrupt? That's just what Lingle, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bush*co, Ltd.) wanted you to think: that because a few top Dems were corrupt, that all must therefore be corrupt -- the old "guilt by association" trick. And enough of us fell for it (egged on by about 8,000 hours of nonstop political ads) so that we're stuck with a cheerleader for the evil, rotten Bush* regime. (Talk about corrupt? Hello! Enron! Halliburton!)

Mayor Harris is always being investagated

Did you happen to notice that the charges against Harris surfaced just as the campaign was starting to heat up? It's happened before: in my old hometown of Bridgeport, Conn., Dem mayor Joe Ganim was yanked out of office on similar charges; Ganim had been viewed as a potential rival to Cheap Labor Conservative Gov. John Rowland (R-May Have Stopped Beating His Wife).

[mndemocrat_29]

3. Lingle Race

I think that Mazie Hirono was brought down by Cayatano's unpopularity, much like KKT in Maryland.

I think that we have a FANTASTIC (I mean this, we have to start taking back more governorships. I mean, look at how many people call Ed Rendell and Jennifer Granholm the future of the party. The more Democratic governors, the better). And we have a real chance to take these seats: Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and Hawaii. All of theses states went overwhelming for Gore and should be held by Democrats, but aren't. In 2006, we need to change that.

(Also, I do think that Mazie Hirono would be a terrific candidate, and should run here or for the Senate in 2006. She just needs to run a far superior campaign this time.)