Brickwood: "We maybe took our eye off the ball a little bit"

[KamaAina]

Here, then, is our new state Dem chair, in his own words (as reported by the S-B):

http://starbulletin.com/2004/05/31/news/index6.html

Calling the delegates "new day Democrats," Galuteria, who was supported by many established Democratic Party leaders and elected politicians, acknowledged that Democrats previously had made mistakes.

"We are regretful that we missed some opportunities in the past years. We admit the fact that we made some mistakes," Galuteria said.

"We maybe took our eye off the ball a little bit," Galuteria said, noting that Lingle's 2002 victory was with 2,000 fewer votes than she compiled when she lost the same race in 1998 to incumbent Ben Cayetano.

"We obviously understand that we lost our base and we are now going to try to galvanize our base," Galuteria said. "Maybe they just don't trust the party right now, but we want to reframe it and give them something to come back to."

Oopsy-daisy! We took our eye off the ball a little bit! Silly us. Our bad. </sarcasm> As for me, I am "regretful" (to put it mildly!) that the state I just moved to less than four years ago has to roast in hell for another two and a half years because of it!! :grr:

[oasis]

1. We can't sulk, we must get busy taking names and kicking asses.

I was Brickwood's mailman in Kaneohe, BTW.