CANDIDATE #1: Pat Saiki(dropped out for health reasons):
SAIKI: TAKING ON THE DEMOCRATS"I feel today, it is imperative that we become again a viable opposition party, respected and acknowledged by the community. In Hawaii, where Democrats control every level of government, we must be the LOYAL OPPOSITION to be sure the minority is heard loud and clear. I will do my best to resurrect what we once were – an opposition Party we can all be proud of and one that receives respect for our fundamental principles." SAIKI: FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AT HAWAII GOP“Our Party has gone astray in many ways these past few years. Today, we do not have a Finance Chairman or a working Finance Committee, we don’t have the funds to afford paid staff, including an Executive Director, and our financial reserves are low and there is no ongoing direct mail finance program. We need funds to more effectively communicate our positions on the issues and express our concerns for better government. Our current Chairman is not engaged in regular major donor solicitations or programs. To make matters worse, the annual traditional major fundraising events such as the “Lincoln Day Dinner” have been rescheduled so many times and postponed to the point where the net returns have been minimal. SAIKI: COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS AT HAWAII GOP"Without messaging and effective communication to the general public as to what our Party stands for with hopes and plans for the future, it is understandable that we can be effectively dismissed and ignored. THIS CANNOT CONTINUE!"SAIKI: LACK OF INTEREST IN POORLY MANAGED HAWAII GOP"Unfortunately, this very headquarters is not being used to its capacity for lack of activities. Meetings are not being held as scheduled according to our Party Rules and decisions are being made “top down”. This must be changed! Our Party members must be involved and encouraged to participate in decision making." SAIKI: FAILURE HAS BEEN OSTROV’S STRATEGYWe now have only FIVE Republican state legislators in the State House of FIFTY-ONE, and only ONE Republican Senator of TWENTY-FIVE. The real shocker is that in the 2018 election, we failed to compete in THIRTY-TWO House Seats and EIGHT Senate seats. That’s a total of FORTY seats in the Legislature which we conceded to Democrats! This cannot continue, we have the re-election of President Donald J. Trump at stake in 2020! We must be better prepared to support him. For these and many other reasons, I am asking for your support and assistance. We must work together to face the many challenges before us and address Hawaii’s need for good governance.”CANDIDATE #2: Shirlene Ostrov
CANDIDATE #3: Dave Hamman
I am David R Hamman, and I am running for the State Chair position of the Hawaii Republican Party on May 11, 2019.
I have lived in Hawaii 30 years.
As well, I have been around the HRP for quite a number of years. I know the issues and the players.
The following is the essence of why I am running.
We have a responsibility to take a stand for righteousness in our society.
The political and governmental arena in this state has been an overwhelming pathetic display of the absence of Divine conscience and righteousness for decades.
We have lived in a state overwhelmingly controlled by one party for decades.
That party has encouraged out of control spending [actually bankrupting the state with $25 Billion in unfunded liabilities - state workers will end up retiring only to find there is no money to pay them], providing no sensible solutions for the homeless, providing no sensible solutions for housing for the working class, over bearing individuals and businesses with the highest tax burden in the country - including on food and medicine.
To say the least, these positions and results do not align with a Divine righteous viewpoint of economics.
As well, let us observe the positions, environment, and overall tone this controlling party has set and enacted into law regarding specific behavior relating to individuals and family.
We see a welfare system that generously supports sex out of marriage and children being born out of marriage - including for those who actively engage in serious patterns of irresponsible behavior and drug use. In fact the welfare system in Hawaii is more generous to those who are not married than to those who are.
We watched this state go from violating Divine principles of sexual behavior and the Divine principles of marriage and family by observing this state go to formal civil unions [which only allowed the same civil rights that existed on the books already] to same sex marriages and the glorification of such behavior in the public arena - an open out right act of defiance against God and His design.
Following that, we observed the acceleration of homosexual, transgender, multi-gender indoctrination [all doctrines that conflict with our Creator and His design] of the weakest and most potentially vulnerable of our society, our children. They began being inundated with curriculum and material attempting to influence them with the idea that unrighteous behavior is acceptable, and to take it to an extreme, actually righteous - a grand perversion. Yes, they had the audacity to call it "Pono" Choices. If that isn't the epitome of out right deceit, perversion, and evil, I don't know what is.
Kindergartners have been confronted and forced to deal with questions and issues like which gender they identify with [potentially other than what they were physically born], which gender bathroom they would prefer to use, why does so and so have two mommies or two daddies, and why is it better that way? This is the type of intense indoctrination the children endure in the public school system in Hawaii.
This last legislative session we watched as the obviously out of control Honolulu Rail project advanced with no real accountability. A project that has screamed out the appearance of out right theft, political corruption, and graft with an estimated expenditure of $1 billion per mile - absolute insanity - I used to be involved in heavy construction and was the project manager a short time in CA for the construction of bridges. If you research the average cost of one mile of bridge, you will find Caltrans estimates $30 million. If you estimate every bell and whistle into that bridge, you are potentially at $60 million per mile. Okay, let's just throw in an extra $40 million for Hawaiian waste. You would be at an excessive $100 million per one mile of bridge. The Honolulu authority is telling us they spent 10 times that amount per mile, and they cannot tell us where the money went. They have constructed 11 miles of such rail at this outrageously [you would have to get insanely creative to spend that amount of money per mile] purported expense and have been approved by the legislature to continue at the same rate with no accountability, no defined deadline, and no defined final cost.
They have indebted the entire state taking whatever limited valuable resources once existed for outer islands, have indebted our grandchildren’s grandchildren for decades to come, and are now attempting to create new taxes to cover up for the $ Billions they have pocketed.
Beyond that, we have seen the assisted suicide bill pass the legislature. Here we have a major conflict with God - [assisted murder?]. First of all, I think there is a major moral issue based upon God's text in the act of suicide. It violates numerous Divine principles. But now, on top of that the legislature supposedly legally empowered doctors [who ironically took a Hippocratic oath] to now assist in taking a life. We are headed into pure evil. [I can empathize with pain but not with violation of Divine law.] How do we know Johnny and Mary don't want to receive their inheritance early? We have entered into the realm of major sin and the Pandora’s box effect of multiplied varieties of sin that exponentially accelerate off a faulty premise.
As well, we had the gender-counseling bill that basically forbids counselors from counseling gender-disturbed children to stabilize them in the gender they were born. Thus no parent would be allowed to receive the assistance from a counselor to assist in such counseling.
But the bill does allow the counselor to provide sex change counseling - [outrageous].
Not only is this a perverted attempt to indoctrinate and thrust an anti-God agenda on us, this is an absolute violation of our first amendment rights to freedom of speech as well as to freedom of religion and the basic principle that a parent maintains the sovereign guardianship rights of decisions to the health and well being of his or her child.
So, to every person cares about righteousness in the state of Hawaii, where were you? And where are you?
Where was and where is your voice?
We know the party that promotes and caters to this type of evil. We know the party that supports failed liberal policies.
It is obviously the Democrat party.
In the midst of all this evil, there has been the bewildering eerie silence.
The HRP under Shirlene Ostrov as chair has failed miserably to provide us a voice relating to the matters in the public arena that we care about and that affect us, our family, our friends, and our neighbors on a daily basis.
When you look at all the major issues addressed this last session, there was no clear message of opposition to this unrighteous insanity being expressed on TV, Radio, Newspaper, or social media to the voting public.
The Hawaii Republican Party under Shirlene Ostrov has become an indifferent silent entity failing to put out a strong message to the general voting public.
The HRP under Shirlene Ostrov is plagued with duplicity and internal corruption, as well as a lack of resources, personnel, a lack of a functioning teleconference system, and numerous other logistical deficiencies.
I aim to change that. I aim to create an effective political action organization that goes after failed liberal policies and turns this state around to what is in the best interests for those who live here [rather than to exist as a “party” characterized as a social club.
I need your vote. Thank you!
David R Hamman
So, with most Democrat seats already going UNCHALLENGED for decades, prepare for things to get worse for the Hawaii GOP. Democrats at the big square building on Punchbowl Street see an opening right now to change election law so that only the top two vote-getters from ANY party will be the ones competing in on the General Election. NOT the Democrat versus the Republican, but more likely TWO DEMOCRATS on the General Election ballot. With Hawaii Republicans averaging little more than 20% of the vote against Democrats in past elections, and with Hawaii cursed with the WEAKEST REPUBLICAN PARTY in all 50 States (one which is run by closet Democrats like Gene Ward and Andria Tupola), this legislation is now poised to eliminate any guarantee that Republican candidates will appear on the General Election ballot.
Earlier this year, state GOP chair Shirlene Ostrov promised "historic gains" in the 2018 Election. Yet today, as has been the case for months and months, she avoids fellow party officers like the plague
The 2018 Election has been two years in the planning. But disaster in just a few short weeks is now certain. As HIRA has warned so many times before, brave Republican candidates are being thrown to the wolves in 2018 by RINO party leaders who simply don't care that the GOP keeps losing. Even worse, these RINO's don't care that the failed policies of the Democrats go unchallenged year after year. 
Early this morning, Mark Blackburn suddenly and without warning resigned in disgust as the Hawaii Republican Party's Finance Committee Chairman and openly admitted that the Hawaii Republican Party is nosediving in 2018 under Ostrov's failed leadership. Quitting this close to Election Day reveals that political neophyte and full-blown RINO Ostrov mistakenly surrounded herself with amateurs and nincompoops like Blackburn who know even less about how to win elections than Ostrov herself.
As far as "canvassing" is concerned, Ostrov and Blackburn wasted 16 valuable months by failing to start canvassing of Hawaii's 700,000 voters on Day One of their "coregency" in running the party together like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. A couple of weeks ago, in an effort to lay blame on others, they desperately brainstormed an impossible plan to put some old ladies in charge of walking and calling to 700,000 registered voters in 30 days in order to identify potential Republican-leaning voters. Since the party only has 29,000 card-carrying members, the party and its candidates only know this teeny-tiny fraction of the electorate's voting preferences. Without any canvassing data collected by the Hawaii GOP over 18 months or more from the rest of the voters across the state, there's absolutely no way for the party to do its job of helping candidates know which voters to focus on (to add up enough votes for victory against a targeted Democrat candidate). Blackburn fruitlessly tries to blame others for Ostrov's many serious blunders -- including procrastinating until a few short weeks before the General Election to finally get started on a task which other state parties across the country perform all-year-round.
The blame game really got a shot of steroids when Ostrov and Blackburn obtained the not-so-secret help of an intensely disliked mainland political consultant named Dennis Lennox and a reportedly shady Honolulu lawyer named Ann Correa to help Ostrov to devise a strategy to 
A seemingly credible rumor suggests another reason Blackburn is resigning. He might have gotten the Hawaii GOP into legal trouble. Records show that Blackburn has tried to offset his failure as a Finance 'Committee' Chairman by spending his own money to help Ostrov. The rumors abound that NOT all of his spending on Hawaii Republican Party related matters has been fully reported to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) and the State Campaign Spending Commission (CSC). Rumors abound that he paid substantial sums of money for the services of controversial party-wrecking consultant 
Then Lennox is suddenly back in town for a secret Republican event on the Big Island at a fancy hotel where Trump-hating Michael Steele was helping to promote the progressive candidacies of RINO's Andria Tupola and Val Okimoto. The timing of this special event (still unreported to the FEC and CSC) happened to be when Ostrov continued refusing to hold official meetings with other party officers and when Ostrov demanded that the same party officers she emasculated with her coup d'etat accept new job descriptions and embrace the fool's errand of trying to reach 700,000+ voters in the span of a few weeks rather than the few years it normally takes.
In addition to Blackburn's FAILURE to recruit any members for his finance committee (which never met and never did anything), Blackburn didn't do jack squat in his other position as district chairman for the Hawaii GOP. No district canvassing. No voter identification. No voter persuasion. Yes, career Democrat legislator 