SPEECH by Brett Kulbis, Honolulu GOP County Chair

Ladies and Gentlemen, distinguished guests, Happy Kuhio Day!  Mahalo for being here

tonight. My name is Brett Kulbis and I'm asking for your vote for County Chairman!

Last year Republicans across the Nation came out in droves and we saw the Republican red

wave engulf the country, while we stood on the beach watching from afar wondering what

happened here!

To understand what happened in Hawaii we must think back to around 1999, when a small

group of relatively powerful insiders centralized inherent county responsibilities under one

State leadership.  Responsibilities like organizing county precincts and districts, recruiting

county and state candidates, fundraising with candidates and messaging on the issues.

Over the years we have forsaken our county grassroots and moved to an oligarchy - a small

group of self-selected insiders making decisions for the rest of us.

A very select “good ‘ole boy (and girl)” cabal that tells us when and where to hold

caucuses with little input from the precinct and district chairs; that decides which

candidates are worthy of our support while good candidates such as Kathryn Henski, Eric

Ching, and my personal friend Bryan Jeremiah are left un-supported to battle the Democrat

machine; fearful insiders who withhold vital tools which precinct and district chairs need to

be successful and communicate with their members; an oligarchy that has disenfranchised

many of our members because they have been silent on the most important issues affecting

our County and State, and have failed to stand on our Republican principles and values.

I am not going to be critical of how we got to where we are - We all read or heard how our

party is “irrelevant”.  My focus is on today and on this election cycle.  I am running

because we cannot afford another two years of the same failed leadership that we have

had for the last two years.  This is your choice tonight.  Continue to lose, or change our

direction.

Now I’m not saying I have all the answers nor do I believe that only I can fix our problems.

IT TAKES A TEAM.  I learned from 26 years in the Navy...our ships don’t go to sea to protect

our great nation without teamwork.  I also learned that you don’t succeed without a plan.

I have a plan, and it’s simple.  Get back to the basics -- organize our county precincts and

districts; give our county grassroot leaders and warriors the tools they need for success;

message about our Republican principles and values making a clear contrast between us

and the Democrat machine; and lay the groundwork to make it as easy as possible for our

brave candidates to win.

Michael Reagan said, “...people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan

probably doesn't become president of the United States of America…,” and that is what I

will begin to restore if elected County Chair.

We are the party of Lincoln, Reagan and Prince Kuhio.  We are the party that ended slavery

and passed the Civil Rights Act.  We are the party that believes in the inherent need and

desire of each and every individual to make their own way in the world, as free as possible

from the constraints of an overbearing government.

We are the party that has always had at its core a deep and abiding love and respect for

this state, the nation, our founding fathers, and for the divine inspiration that aided in the

drafting of our Constitution.

Republicans across the Nation came out in droves and you saw the red wave engulf the rest

of the country, while we stood on the beach watching from afar wondering what happened

here!

I sent you each my biography, so I won't repeat it here.  You know that I am the outsider to

the slate presented to you by the same folks who got us where we are today. I will bring a

balance, a conservative perspective to the Executive Committee, a perspective that has

been sorely absent for several years.  More importantly you’ll be sending a message to

leadership that it's time for change.

Ronald Reagan once said, “Our party must be based on the kind of leadership that grows

and takes its strength from the people. Any organization is in actuality only the lengthened

shadow of its members. A political party is a mechanical structure created to further a

cause. The cause, not the mechanism, brings and holds the members together.”

For too long we have ignored the cause!

Today you have a chance to change the status quo and begin rebuilding our team and

making our party great again!  My name is Brett Kulbis, and I humbly ask for your vote for

County Chairman.

We can win elections.  We can make Hawaii a better place to live. My name is Brett Kulbis,

and I humbly ask for your vote for county chairman.

God bless you, God bless Hawaii, God bless President Trump and God bless the United

States of America, mahalo!!

Mahalo Nui Loa!!