And our super-duper Dem gov candidate is... Harry Kim (R-Big Island)?!

[KamaAina]

I read in Eddie Sherman's MidWeek column that "you'll be surprised who the Dems are considering", but, jeepers, a turncoat repuke?

http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/08/news/index3.html

After initially rejecting the idea, Big Island Mayor Harry Kim says he is now thinking about running for governor as a Democrat next year....

Kim, who ran and won the Hawaii County mayorship in 2000 as a Republican, says he was glad to run for re-election last year as a nonpartisan. In 2000 he did not have a campaign organization to coordinate his bid and accepted donations only up to $10 a person....

"I have never been a Republican," Kim said, adding that he had to pick a party when he first ran in 2000, and the GOP seemed more palatable than the Democrats....

"I didn't know about it. Harry Kim has been an independent Republican, but he ran as a Republican and declared himself a Republican. I am a bit surprised he would do something like that," Sam Aiona, GOP chairman, said. Aren't we all.

Great. Five years ago, he thought "the GOP seemed more palatable than the Democrats", and now he wants to lead our party out of the sere Lingle desert?!

Do we stand a chance with a sort of reverse Zell Miller or Michael Bloomberg? Would it even be worth it? Would he just be the ultimate DINO? Plus, any Neighbor Island candidate (who does not have access to big mainland $$$ the way Lingle did) starts off at a disadvantage in terms of name recognition.

Then again, we just had a Honolulu mayoral race with basically two DINOs, so why not a governor's race between two repukes? :sarcasm:

[zbdent]

1. Insert standard "Star Trek: Voyager" joke

now . . .

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Okay, here goes.......Harry Kim is dead?.........Again?!?!?!?!

[The Sushi Bandit]

3. Mo betta than a Oahu politician!

If he wants to turn Democrat.. thats OK with me.
He does know how to evacuate from tsunamis and volcanoes!

[Cha]

5. That's right!

And I'll be living right next to The Volcano!

[Cha]

4. Could harry kim have meant..

"more palatable" in Hawaii?

Weren't the dems in disaray in Hawaiian politics with Gov Cayetano?

I have no idea..just suppositioning.

"Kim, who ran and won the Hawaii County mayorship in 2000 as a Republican, says he was glad to run for re-election last year as a nonpartisan. In 2000 he did not have a campaign organization to coordinate his bid and accepted donations only up to $10 a person."

That's where I'm moving in a couple of years..The Big Island.