HIRA News: Which Lt. Gov. Candidate Still Lives At Home with Mommy?

The Hawaiian Islands Republican Assembly strikes again!

I had been missing their eblasts and updates, but I am glad to see them striking out against RINOs, Democrats, and liberals of all kinds of perverse sorts!

TALK IS CHEAP: With so much at stake in our elections, shouldn’t fast-talking politicians who promise to make Hawaii residents more prosperous prove by their actions that they ACTUALLY know how to be successful rather than stalling out way, way below the poverty line and making less than a part-timer in a fast food restaurant at the age of 43 . . . if they’re not hiding taxable income and compensation, that is?  Something’s not right here.

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John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania, was bad enough. He was still sponging off his parents into his 40s, and yet somehow that freak got elected Lieutenant Governor in the Commonwealth ..

Here we are now with more adult children, used to living off the parents and not standing up for themselves, and they want to govern an entire state, too. This is a pretty disturbing trend, one which I think will only get worse as more young adults entere middle age. For the last twenty years, we have seen a growing trend of young people not grow up. They have been allowed to stay irresponsible children, even as their bodies grow up and then grow old.

This dynamic is all wrong. Millennials got trophies just for participating, their parents pulled strings to make sure they got better grades and better positions in different school events and functions. And now those children are entitled adults who expect someone else to pay for everything else in their lives.

No wonder candidates like John Fetterman are socialists, and very soon we will find out which of the two Lt. Gov. candidates in Hawaii is a socialist, too.

MassResistance Helps Hawaii Group Stop Bad Anti-Family Bills in State Legislature

 

MassResistance helps Hawaii parents stop terrible anti-family bills in State Legislature

Bills that would (1) push extreme LGBT agenda in schools and (2) criminally punish parents who complain

Plus a bizarre pro-LGBT school resolution dies in the Hawaii House of Representatives

The right strategies from MassResistance made the difference, says local leader!

April 4, 2022

 There were continuous protests by parents in downtown Honolulu near the State Capitol.

Two of the most radical bills we’ve ever seen were introduced in the Hawaii legislature this past January. Quickly gaining momentum, both quietly passed in the House in early March. They needed to be stopped in the State Senate!

• Bill HB 1697 would have required public schools to teach children that homosexuality, transgenderism, etc., are normal and positive behaviors. Schools must “destigmatize” and include “positive representations” of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, other sexual orientation and gender identities.”
  
  It would also have required the Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) to train teachers how to instruct children on LGBT topics.
• Bill HB 2125 would have criminalized parents who complain to teachers or their School Board. Its intent was to silence parents who object to Critical Race Theory, graphic LGBT topics, Covid mask requirements for children, etc. It would have created a new criminal offense: “Harassment of an education worker” with punishments of fines and jail time.

It would have dovetailed with existing statutes to include “harassing or insulting electronic communications.” Thus, sending “insulting” emails to your School Board member (or posting criticisms on social media) could get a parent in legal trouble.

These bills were heavily pushed by the Hawaii Department of Education, other leftist government agencies, special interest groups, various radical teachers, and left-wing activists.

Outrage across the state – parents organize

The outrage against these bills across the state was fierce. Two parents, Art and Peggy, formed a fast-growing statewide group, Fathers and Mothers for Children, to mobilize people against these two bills.

On March 7, 2022, the group held a rally against HB 1697 at the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu. Over 100 people attended. It was a rousing event, and included speeches by prominent pro-family leaders and a State Representative.

 State Rep Bob McDermott, a pro-family fighter in the legislature, addresses the parents' rally.

A week later, on March 14, the group organized a march through the streets of Honolulu to the State Capitol. Hundreds of people participated. When they reached the Capitol, there was another rally with several local speakers.

 Protesters march through Honolulu to the State Capitol on March 14.

 A family makes a statement outside the Capitol.

They continued holding protests every few days.

MassResistance gets involved

MassResistance is no stranger to Hawaii. Back in 2009, we helped stop a “civil unions” bill in the Hawaii Senate. (Even the Boston “gay” newspaper complained about MassResistance’s involvement there!)

In 2013, MassResistance worked with Hawaii activists in a huge battle to attempt to stop “gay marriage” from being imposed by the Legislature.

We are still in touch with many of the activists we worked with back then. So on March 10, 2022, one of them – Susan – contacted us for some strategic help.

After studying the situation, including the fact that both bills were now in the State Senate, we advised Susan that the group should immediately: (1) get politicians who are currently running for office to show up and publicly support the parents; and (2) target the districts of the Senators who are pushing the bad bills.

They took our advice. Here’s what Susan told us on March 25:

We used those two suggestions. We got politicians involved and I think that is what helped get the word out to a larger group. Candidates running for office did come and they participated in our events. We had a candidate for Governor and a very popular candidate for Lt. Governor show up and both spoke. And we singled out three districts that we targeted for rallies and sign waving.

Victory: Both bills were stopped in the Senate!

And everyone’s hard work paid off! On March 24, both bills failed to move forward in the Senate and are now dead. It happened very quietly. The parents had to call the Capitol to get the official word. “I imagine that there will be efforts to resurrect these bills next year but we'll be watching,” Susan told us.

A bizarre House resolution also dies

There was also a bizarre resolution in the House of Representatives that almost passed. It had no legal implications, but it still promoted a very dangerous policy.

HCR 138 stated that Hawaii’s “educational materials and practices do not reflect the range of gender expressions and sexual identities that exist” and that “teachers do not understand diverse gender and sexual orientations.”

Therefore, to fix this “problem” the resolution requested that the Hawaii Department of Education create a “student-led working group” to find ways to push LGBT subjects more directly in Hawaii’s schools. That would include “peer to peer sexual health” – which usually means homosexuals grooming other children.

Since the House had earlier passed the two anti-family bills, our side was not confident we could stop this, either. But it seems that the resolution got tripped up by the growing parental outrage. Though it had already passed one House committee, on April 1 it quietly died in another House committee.

Final thoughts

A big contribution that MassResistance makes around the country is to help parents with an aggressive and effective strategy to achieve their goals. Most parents have a lot of great energy for fighting the Left’s horrible attacks on their children, but little experience in the right way to go about it. The Left usually comes in with a wealth of experience and tactics. We help to bridge that gap!

   

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AUWE! Hawaii RINOs and Their Deep State Corruption

** DEEP STATE PARTY CORRUPTION:  Kauai GOP Ousts Cheating County Chair and Fake Delegates ** THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK:  Shirlene Ostrov Responds with Even More Lying & Cheating to Save Crooked Steve Yoder (and his illegitimate pro-Ostrov delegates) Aloha Republicans: Many of you have witnessed the dramatic fighting back and forth over the election fraud and delegate disenfranchisement (a.k.a. cheating) inside Kauai's GOP; pitting Crooked 2015-2019 county chair Steve Yoder against conservative challenger Honest Dave Hamman for the 2019-2021 county chairmanship on the Garden Isle, a place where ZERO elected Republicans have held office during Yoder's entire sad tenure in office. BREAKING NEWS:  Here is the very latest in the shocking cheating scandal which casts considerable doubt on the legitimacy of this weekend's state GOP convention on Maui, where widespread cheating has produced illegitimate delegates who are now on their way to Maui to choose new state party leaders. An overwhelming vote of the Kauai GOP's rules committee and executive committee have reviewed the fraud perpetrated by Steve Yoder in order to facilitate his reelection back in March.  Their verdict?  Yoder is out, the county convention results have been tossed out, a new convention has been called for June, and Dave Hamman has been named the interim county chair. Well, that was enough to cause Shirlene Ostrov to reveal her inner cheater, since she's done a lousy job of disguising her desire for Yoder to remain in that position -- a position which holds a crucial vote on the state party's executive committee -- and she's done an even lousier job containing her intention of letting Yoder's phony convention delegates travel to Maui this weekend and vote for her re-election. And so, this past Monday, desperate Ostrov sent Dave Hamman the most ridiculous 'cease and desist' letter you'll ever read.  In summary, Ostrov ordered Hamman to ignore the cheating, accept defeat, let Yoder be county chair, and get excited about helping these cheating leaders by enthusiastically licking their stamps and stuffing their envelopes despite having been robbed of certain victory. But the most noteworthy aspect of Ostrov's letter to Hamman is her willingness as the current leader of the Hawaii Republican Party to completely invent some facts and completely ignore other facts to reach her phony conclusion. Check out Ostrov's phony reasoning and false timeline upon which she relies for her fraudulent conclusions.  Though the letter was actually authored by Elvie Leming (legal secretary at the Carlsmith Ball law firm) and then modified by Ann Correa Kemp (HRP state rules chair) for Shirlene Ostrov's signature, here's what Ostrov 'wrote' in her letter to Hamman to protect her boy Yoder . . . "On the County level, to have challenged the election of Chair Yoder, you should have submitted your challenge in writing to the Kauai Rules Committee within 10 days so that the Kauai Rules Committee could make a recommendation to Kauai County Executive Committee, who would decide the election challenge." What Ostrov pretends never happened is precisely what did happen.  Within days of the March 23rd county convention at which Yoder squeaked by with just enough votes (thanks to his replacing two dozen or more legitimate delegates with illegitimate ones), a dozen or more official complaints were filed in a timely fashion by Kauai Republicans with that island’s county rules committee headed by Dave Hamman -- the same committee which Ostrov refers to.  These same timely complaints (like this one which the KRP rules committee entitled "Exhibit 27" and was filed just 48 hours after the fraudulent county convention) led directly to rulings by the Kauai rules committee and then the Kauai GOP executive committee that the county convention was bogus, that cheating was rampant, that a new convention would be scheduled in June, and that Steve Yoder was out. As if Ostrov didn't think she had lied enough, she doubled down on her lies . . . "The key point to remember is that the Kauai County Convention elected officers for 2019-2021 and no challenge to their election has been timely filed with the Kauai County Committee." Again, Ostrov is lying because a challenge to that rigged election of Yoder and his fellow KRP officers is EXACTLY what happened.  The Kauai Rules Committee acted on these timely complaints by voting to overturn Yoder's phony and rigged county convention and the legitimate members of the Kauai GOP Committee (the ones who didn't cheat) voted overwhelmingly to toss out the election results because Steve Yoder and his cronies had flagrantly broken party rules to retain power and disenfranchise legitimate delegates. In fact, for weeks prior to the ill-fated March 2019 county convention on Kauai, Dave Hamman dutifully challenged the cheating by Yoder, Ostrov, Correa, and other top party officers who were trying to manipulate the outcome by crossing off the names of pro-Hamman delegates who were legitimately credentialed by the three district chairman on Kauai and REPLACING legitimate delegates with Yoder's cronies based on encouragement to cheat by Ostrov and Correa. Anyone following the antics of HRP's Ostrov and Kauai's Steve Yoder over the past two months knows that these two crooked RINO's have been desperately trying to squelch the conservative uprising by Kauai Republicans disgusted with sorry leadership from both Yoder and Ostrov. Ostrov simply wants rule-abiding conservative Republicans to accept her lies as the final word on the subject as if it's too late to do the right thing. Interim KRP Chair, Dave Hamman, replied to Ostrov's insane 'cease and desist' rantings this way:  "Shirlene, it is sad that you continue to persist in misrepresenting the facts.  As well, what is even more egregious is that you disrespect the KRP Rules Committee and the KRP Executive Committee." Yes indeed, Ostrov just pulls 'shibai' out of her okole and presents them as facts. It's even sadder that neither the HRP state committee nor the HRP executive committee has intervened about Ostrov's and Yoder's conspiracy to defraud Kauai Republicans of a fair and free election of party officers.  But many of them are complicit in this scheme because they are aligned with the progressive, RINO Tupola-Ward-Ostrov faction that now holds power.  These corrupt party leaders SIMPLY DO NOT CARE that Ostrov invents facts to serve her purposes of saving Yoder (and his illegitimate pro-Ostrov delegates) and effectively flushes the remainder of her own integrity down the toilet in a desperate attempt to win at all costs . . . with zero regard for the damage Ostrov is doing to party unity. It’s time for Shirlene Ostrov and Steve Yoder to cease and desist.  The masquerade is over.  Yoder is yesterday’s news.  And it’s time for Ostrov to step aside.  In fact, HIRA believes that the time has come for her 2019-2021 slate of party officer wannabes to step up and dump that lying sleaze while they still have a shred of integrity.  Every single person running for party office this coming Saturday KNOWS what has transpired.  And the silence from 99% of them is what will be remembered after this weekend's state convention. They KNOW that far more delegates got elected and appointed who supported Yoder’s challenger Dave Hamman than support Yoder for another two years.  They KNOW that Yoder openly admitted that his days as county chair were numbered.  They KNOW that instead of losing gracefully, Yoder worked with Ostrov and her zero integrity rules chair Ann Correa Kemp to cook the books; with Yoder and his cronies improperly DELETING the names of eligible delegates for the contested Kauai GOP county convention while improperly ADDING pro-Yoder sycophants to the delegate roster.  They also KNOW that Yoder even admitted to more than a dozen witnesses before the State Rules Committee that he improperly changed the delegate lists from all three house districts on Kauai -- a clear violation of very clear rules.  Cheating, in other words. But that's not the outcome Ostrov and her Tupola-Ward RINO cabal wanted.  Ostrov and her RINO Cabal slate know the score.  But, thus far, they think she'll get away with even more cheating on Maui this weekend. Without question, Kauai Republicans led by Dave Hamman followed the rules and dealt with Steve Yoder’s (and Shirlene Ostrov’s) systematic cheating in a timely fashion by acting on many quickly submitted complaints about the fraudulent Kauai GOP county convention.  They did the right things.  Now, Ostrov continues to do the wrong things. As anyone can plainly see, Shirlene Ostrov's willingness to steal an election and cover up outright fraud makes her the biggest liar in Hawaii politics today.  Her entire regime at HRP is corrupt.  And the new slate which backs Ostrov appears to be as morally bankrupt as they come.*   (* more about this tomorrow). BE WARNED:   As you’ll hear tomorrow, those Ostrov-aligned wannabes have rallied around a likely criminal who is under investigation by the FBI, the FEC, the U.S. Attorney’s office, and several state agencies.  Ms. Ostrov hasn’t told you this because, well, she’s trying to cling to power and doesn't want you to worry about pesky things like big fines or prosecutions.  The further implosion of the Hawaii GOP in 2019 will be caused by the Ostrov-Tupola-Ward Gang.  THIS KIND OF SERIOUS LEGAL TROUBLE IS WHAT SHIRLENE OSTROV BRINGS TO THE HAWAII REPUBLICAN PARTY. IT'S THE KIND OF TROUBLE WHICH MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CONVINCE VOTERS TO EVER REPLACE DEMOCRATS WITH GOP CANDIDATES. Anyway folks, the entire state convention on Maui is a fraud.  Manipulated delegate lists are already in play thanks to the cheating on Kauai.  And such rulebreaking manipulations are just as likely from Maui and the Big Island, since each of these counties have been working in cahoots with Crooked Ostrov and Corrupt state rules chair Ann Correa to help secure Ostrov's unwarranted re-election. So now you know the real facts about the lying and cheating by the Democrat Party’s favorite GOP chair of all time -- the one whose corrupt actions and proud incompetence helps Democrats to sleep soundly every night.  That's our very own Cheatin' Shirlene Ostrov-Blackburn, the pride of Mililani's RINO's.  Auwe! Finally, don't pin any hopes on current party leaders to stop all this cheating.  They've been turning a blind eye for two months.  In addition to the many financial crimes of Ostrov and fellow officers, every member of the party's top leadership knows that the Ostrov-Tupola-Ward gang actively utilized cheating sanctioned by Ostrov and Ann Correa at the March 2019 Honolulu GOP convention by authorizing neighbor islanders to fly to Oahu and improperly vote for Henry Vincent.  That tactic was specifically requested by Maui GOP chair Greg Lussier for the benefit of Henry Vincent, while the cheating orchestrated by Yoder on Kauai in March 2019 was openly supported by the Ostrov-Tupola-Ward sycophants who were installed as county chairs in West Hawaii and East Hawaii. Folks, that's the dismal state of our party.  Even more disturbing information is coming from HIRA tomorrow.  Stay tuned and brace yourselves.   Stay tuned for more shocking information about what these RINO’s have been doing to destroy the Hawaii Republican Party from the inside, year after year after year.  They’ll say (e.g. lie) and do (e.g. steal) anything to retain that ability to sabotage the conservative agenda and keep the Democrat agenda moving forward with the help of the Hawaii GOP and the Republican caucus at the legislature.  ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. Auwe!! -------------------------------------------------   Donate to HIRA Action SuperPAC

RINO Alert for Kaui County, Hawaii Republican Party Convention

***** FRAUD ALERT:  Kauai RINO's Are Cheating Like Crazy on the Garden Island to Maintain Control of Dying Party Organization AT THIS SATURDAY'S COUNTY CONVENTION ***** Crooked Steve Yoder's Years of Political Failure Are Only Eclipsed by His Desperation and Corruption Aloha, Republicans: In a desperate move by RINO's to retain control over the dying Kauai GOP -- which had zero candidates for office in 2018 and zero membership growth during outgoing county chair Steve Yoder's failed term in office -- the miserable and ineffective RINO Steve Yoder has decided to ask for a crooked lifeline from failed state chair Shirlene Ostrov and her ZERO-INTEGRITY lawyer Ann "I have no scruples and no brains" Correa, who serves as the state party's Ostrov-appointed chairwoman of its rules committee. With frequently self-described “benevolent dictator” Yoder acknowledging that he's been completely outhustled by superior party organizer Dave Hamman in recruiting new party members on Kauai -- and with Hamman proving last month his ability to get district and precinct chairs elected at biennial caucus meetings on the Garden Isle -- Yoder refuses to see the writing on the wall.  In fact, Yoder was so flummoxed by Hamman and his REAL Republican cadre of supporters that on the morning after the Kauai precinct/district caucuses, Yoder sent a message expressing his self-pitying feelings to the entire state party leadership: "The delegates that were elected yesterday, will gladly vote for Dave in both conventions! I wish Dave and the new KRP the best and I hope they elect conservative Republicans to the Kauai County Council, Mayor, State House, State Senate, etc."  And Yoder's letter was signed, "Soon To Be Former Kauai GOP County Chair" But then Yoder (who is already up to his eyeballs in the corruption scandal consuming the Hawaii GOP, now being investigated by the FBI and the FEC) was quickly made to realize by his fellow RINO’s such as career politician and closet Democrat Gene Ward that the entire fate of continued progressive control of the Hawaii GOP rested with Yoder trying to undermine fellow party members and Dave Hamman (pictured here) at every turn, despite being outhustled.  So, if Yoder can’t win honestly, he’s now turned to cheating. And so, while Hamman's team managed to elect a big number of delegates to this weekend's county convention on Kauai (where new county officers will be elected), Yoder believes he has an ace up his sleeve. That 'ace' is the unethical and repugnant combination of crooked party bosses Correa and Ostrov.  The former has been looking the other way for years while the latter cheats and breaks rules, even making up rules by pulling them out of her okole; all while breaking the law left and right. Again, Hamman's superior organizing efforts yielded a new district chair team for the three state house districts on Democrat-dominated Kauai, as well as a plethora of delegates to the county convention to be held on Saturday.  But in the RINO's desperation to maintain the failed party status quo on Kauai, Ostrov and Correa have given lame duck county chair Yoder the phony authority (a non-existent and contradictory authority under state and county rules) to STACK THE DECK appoint whomever they want to be delegates to this increasingly fake county convention that Yoder and RINO party leaders are shamelessly and manipulating from the state HQ on Kapiolani Blvd. The RINO's who've joined Yoder for the ride in destroying the Kauai GOP are acting Yoder's witting accomplices in the cheating.  To counter the REAL Republicans recruited over many weeks by Dave Hamman, Yoder's minions are plumbing the depths of their Rolodexes looking for as many liberals and closet Democrats as they can herd onto flatbed trucks down to the Kauai county convention in order to cheat their way to victory using unqualified, illegally appointed delegates to tip the balance back in Yoder's favor. What Yoder, Ostrov, and Correa don't understand is that Hawaii voters will NEVER be willing to overthrow the Democrat political majority and replace it with a Republican majority if Republican party leaders are JUST AS CROOKED AS DEMOCRATS.  With Crooked Yoder, Crooked Ostrov, and Crooked Correa burning down the house through extensive cheating, they are doing the Democrats dirty work by making the Hawaii GOP totally offensive to the average voter. By the way, this is the same Crooked Ann Correa who actually issued an opinion as Ostrov's Rules Chair that the Executive Committee of the State Party was NEVER allowed to hold meetings unless Crooked Shirlene Ostrov called those meetings.  Indeed, Crooked Correa 'ruled' that she had invalidated meetings of the Executive Committee which were called during a time when Ostrov and her beau Blackburn didn't want to have anything to do with any other party leaders, so she made up a 'rule' (approved by Crooked Ann) which allowed Ostrov to "fire" party officers she didn't like.  By the way, all this dysfunction took place during the summer and fall of 2018, while the party was supposed to be firing on all four cylinders to get GOP candidates elected (and take advantage of having all the issues working against Democrats). But Shirlene and Ann were more committed to keeping power away from fellow party officers through subterfuge and manufacturing works of fiction in place of following party rules.  So, now you understand the ethically-challenged Ostrov-Correa method which is being applied in Kauai. Anyway, if you like the crappy and controversial job done by Ann Correa's boss Gary Grimmer whoran the 2018 GOP state convention in Kaneohewhich resembled a rolling dumpster fire fueled by bags of toxic fertilizer provided by Ostrov and her not-so-secret beau Mark Blackburn, then you'll just LOVE how Correa has laid the groundwork for a trainwreck this Saturday in Kauai at the deliberately sabotaged county convention. Yoder's abysmal record of failure is clear.  In 2018, there were no elected Republicans in the entire 25-member state senate.  But Yoder was content. That's why Yoder didn't have a single Republican running for state office from Kauai in 2018.  Not one. Not even when sitting on political ammunition like how the cost of housing exploded by 79% in just one year. Sadly, just like useless county chair Greg Lussier on Maui (who only had one GOP candidate running in 2018, an indicted sex offender now on trial), Yoder waved the white surrender flag LONG before Election Day. Yes, despite the exploding cost of living on Kauai (such as the 79% increase in the cost of housing, Kauai's GOP under Steve Yoder and his RINO enablers like Bob Hickling hasn't laid a glove on the Democrats.  The county party leadership is just a social club which meets for the occasional meal while inceeasing numbers of suffering victims of the Democrat Machine remain untouched and unreached by the dormant joke-of-a-GOP.  No Kauai candidates ran in 2018 as Republicans, leaving three state house Democrats COMPLETELY SAFE from challenge in 2018. In House District 14, Nadine Nakamura coasted to re-election. Same for James Tokioka of Lihue in HD 15 and Dee Morikawa in HD 16.  Only Democrats on Kauai bother to challenge Democrats in primary elections. NO REPUBLICANS IN GENERAL ELECTIONS. Auwe! Worst of all is how the Yoder Gang leaves Democrat state senator Ron Kouchi unscathed after all these years.  Kouchi is Hawaii's equivalent of Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. Except that the situation is even worse. The leftist president of the State Senate is reponsible for some of the worst policies imaginable -- all of which are directly connected to the worsening financial situation of local families.  But thanks to the chronic failure of longtime county GOP chair Steve Yoder, Kouchi is as safe as ever. Kouchi couldn't get better support from the Kauai GOP if he paid for it. Its a joke that hopeless RINO state chair Shirlene Ostrov recently described Yoder and the Kauai county GOP as “the model county party operation.”  In other words, Yoder has been a useful idiot and rubberstamper of Ostrov's failed managememt of HRP. indeed, Yoder only exists to do the bidding of the RINO's who have long controlled the dying Republican Party of Hawaii.  Yoder surrounds himself by idiots who know even less than he does about selling conservatism to voters on the Garden Island. Social clubbers who just hang out and watch the world go by and are content to let Democrats call the shots forever.  Yoder's anything BUT model county party has a grossly outdated website which has been a running joke of obsoleteness for years. It's social media is even more pathetic, with the county party's Facebook page having only 124 followers after YEARS of being online,non-promoted and seemingly abandoned by Team Yoder. Sloppy, reckless and feckless are Steve Yoder's operating principles.  The non-existent results speak for themselves. As the statistics about Hawaii's cost of living and economy get worse, Yoder does even less to capitalize on these bad headlines.    The best defense against failed Democrat policies is a strong offense by the state and county Republican organizations. But Yoder’s Gang has been dead in the water for years and years. THE BIG QUESTION FOR KAUAI REPUBLICANS:  When things have gone as badly as you can imagine for so long under RINO Steve Yoder and his bumbling RINO gang of fools -- leaving Democrats more in control of Kauai politics than ever before -- why would anyone stick with the failed leadership of Steve Yoder.  Take it from conservative Kauai Republican activist Alfred Sarmento, whose endorsement of Dave Hamman makes the case for change perfectly. LETTER HERE Stay tuned for more shocking information about what these RINO’s have been doing to destroy the Hawaii Republican Party from the inside, year after year after year.  They’ll say (e.g. lie) and do (e.g. steal) anything to retain that ability to sabotage the conservative agenda and keep the Democrat agenda moving forward with the help of the Hawaii GOP and the Republican caucus at the legislature.  ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. Auwe!! ------------------------------------------------- Donate to HIRA Action SuperPAC

Hawaii Freezes Over: Hypermajority Democratic State Rejects Sanctuary State Proposal

The state of Hawaii is the most Democratic, the most "progressive", i.e. the most corrupt, the state with the widest gap between rich and poor, the biggest difference between haves and have-nots.

The political class is so out-of-touch, and they do not care. The "Republicans" are not just RINOs, they are full-on left-wing traitors who vote for every corrupt, big government, anti-family proposal imaginable along with the vast majority of Democrats in the state legislature.

In spite of the decidedly left-wing tilt of the Hawaii state legislature, and the Democratic dominance thorughout the state, Election 2018 was not as bad for the Hawaii GOP. Republicans managed to hold onto all their seats in the State House of Representatives (5 out of 46), and they even gained a state senate seat (one out of 25), while Republicans in California, Oregon, and other states lost more seats!

But here's the big news ...

Not only did Republicans do (ever so slight) better than other state Republicans in other states during a so-called "blue wave), but Hawaii's legislators actually rejected a proposal to turn Hawaii into a Sanctuary State!


I cannot make this up.

Check out the report below!

Hawaii immigrant sanctuary bill dies in state Legislature

State Rep. Gregg Takayama, the chairman of the House Public Safety Committee, said Tuesday he won’t be hearing the measure in his committee.

A bill that would have made Hawaii the third so-called sanctuary state for immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally has died at the state Legislature.

The state Senate passed the bill and sent it to the House. But Rep. Gregg Takayama, the chairman of the House Public Safety Committee, said Tuesday he won’t be hearing it in his committee. That effectively kills the bill.

Takayama said that because most law enforcement occurs at the county level, he believes it would be more appropriate for the counties and not the state to consider creating sanctuaries. He noted local jurisdictions on the mainland have done so.

“I didn’t think there is a compelling need for a state law in this area,” Takayama said.

Oregon was the first to become a sanctuary state in the 1980s. California followed in 2017.

Los Angeles and Philadelphia are among the dozens of U.S. cities, metro areas and counties that have implemented sanctuary laws. The measures aim to focus law enforcement officers on local crime rather than detaining people suspected of being in the country illegally.

The bill passed by the Senate said Hawaii law enforcement would have prevented law enforcement from stopping, questioning or interrogating an individual based solely on that person’s actual or suspected immigration or citizenship status.

Hawaii law enforcement officers would be prevented from inquiring about the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses and those who approach the police for help. Exceptions would be made to investigate potential criminal activity by the person.

Under the bill, Hawaii law enforcement would have been allowed to help federal immigration officials if presented with a warrant. They also would have assisted if the individual immigration officials were seeking information on had a felony conviction or had been convicted of a misdemeanor within the past five years. They would have helped if there was probable cause to believe the person was engaged in terrorist activity.

“It is essential to the public safety of all residents that there is a relationship of trust and cooperation among members of the immigrant community and state and local law enforcement agencies,” the bill said. This relationship is undermined when state and local law enforcement voluntarily act at the request of federal immigration officials, it said.

What is happening here?

The Chairman of the Hawaii House Judiciary Committee made the argument that these issues should be taken care of at the county and city level.

But let's cut the ōpiopio ("crap" in Hawaii). The votes in this hyperdemocratic legislature simply were not there. People do not want "sanctuary state".

Now, Hawaii is surrounded by water. How do illegal aliens break into Hawaii? The vast majority of them are VISA overstays, but those overstays are illegal aliens nonetheless and they are harming native Hawaiians, American citizens who want to work!

Still, how was this accomplished, that a liberal legislature caved and did not advance a terrible bill?

Just like in other deeply-blue states, there is a chapter of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies. Unlike the other state chapters, however, the Hawaiian Islands Republican Assembly fights back and spares no expense or reserve to go after bad lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

If a Democratic hypermajority legislature could not pass sanctuary state laws at this point, doesn't that bode better for us on the mainland who want to stop this immoral, illegal travesty?

For now, to the Hawaiian Islands Republican Assembly, I say:

CONGRATULATIONS!

And -- can you help us mainlanders out?