HIRA Vote Guide for Hawaii GOP Leadership--Vote for David Hamman!

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 STRATEGY We 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     2019 Convention Voter Guide provided as a service of the Hawaii Republican Assembly (HIRA)

ICYMI: California Democrats Were Falling Apart During Election 2016

The California Democratic Party is not the unified, monolithic whole which the media portrays it to be most of the time.

In fact, the stark and breaking divisions within the Democratic National Committee reveal how corrupt the national organization has become. They colluded with the media to make Hillary Clinton the chosen candidate over Bernie Sanders.

Progressives, the hard-core leftists in the Democratic Party, were cheated many time throughout the whole primary as Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and the DNC team were pulling strings and tipping their hand to ensure that their hand-picked Hillary would be the nominee and the next President.

San Jose Mercury News published the following write-up in February 2016, during the California Democratic Party Convention:

“Whoever wins in November, it will be a Democrat,” Smith, a Daly City delegate holding two pro-Hillary Clinton signs, told Clark McCartney, a retired teacher from Riverside County. “Not if she’s indicted first,” he barked.

Wrong! President Trump! BAM!

Even as party bigwigs assure the more than 3,000 Democratic activists gathered at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center that the Republican presidential candidates’ “food fight” will virtually guarantee that a Democrat stays in the White House, some of the rank-and-file don’t seem so sure as they watch the Dem-on-Dem spats on the convention floor.

Part of the reason I am looking over this article is to expose how deeply delusional the Democratic Party was across the country. Even though California went deeper for Hillary than Obama had won in 2008 and 2012, it was a hollow victory with no results.

NONE.

Indeed, with the traditionally decisive Super Tuesday nominating contests just two days away — and Clinton romping to victory in Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic Primary — many convention-goers appear to have more in common with their Republican counterparts than they might want to admit.

There is already discussion in Sacramento about moving California's primary ... again. It should take place earlier in the year. California remains a delegate rich state, and more candidates should be visiting and fighting for delegates here. California keeps getting treated like the old and backward child from the first marriage of a mixed family.

We loom large in the backroom or at the kids' table during Thanksgiving, but no one listens to us or takes us seriously.

This passage was particularly welcome:

They remain hesitant to unite behind their party’s front-runner. They’re anxious about their prospects of winning the White House in November. And they’re more and more bewildered by Donald Trump’s success each passing day.

The Democrats in California did not want Crooked Hillary. Who can blame then,

Notice how Trump was slowly succeeding in the primary process, and how those results were setting liberals on edge. I further recall John Burton acknowledging that Trump win 30% of Bernie voters, because they wanted a populist, anti-Establishment candidate

“His ability to say anything he wants to say and not slip in the polls is utterly amazing,” said Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison, a former Republican who thinks Vice President Joe Biden, the convention’s keynote speaker, would have made the strongest Democratic candidate.

Harrison seemed sure of only one thing: “It’s going to be an ugly election.”

Yes, it was. The dirty tricks from the Hillary Clinton campaign combined with the Wikileaks drops which exposed how corrupt the DNC had become, along with Hillary Clinton's two-faced proposals on just about everything.

Check out what individual delegates had to say about Crooked Hillary:

“I would have a very hard time voting for corruption,” Nadia Nouri, a Sanders supporter from San Jose, said about the prospect of voting for Clinton in November.

Ruth Hull, a delegate from Orange County, said she is thinking about writing in Edward Snowden — who is living in exile in Russia for releasing classified information from the National Security Agency — if Clinton is her party’s nominee.

“You can’t have the insiders ordering the rest of the Democrats how to vote,” Hull said.

How about that?!

Smith, whose signs read “I’ve been waiting since 1789” for a female president, was stunned by how many Sanders backers have been “rude and insulting” to her. “It makes me wonder what kind of Democrats these people are,” she said.

The infighting was fierce and unprecedented. Consider the verbal jousting!

Still, some Democratic delegates in San Jose said they were worried that Trump could actually win the presidency.

Gary Singh, a mechanic from Union City, is concerned that Clinton appeared “so mild” compared to Trump.

She was not mild, she was VILE!

“He will go after the email record. He will hammer her on Wall Street,” said Singh, a Clinton supporter. “And people believe what he says. He makes a lie the truth. I fear that.”

Trump did all of that and more. The emails, Benghazi, the lies, the corruption, the cheating, the open borders -- all of it snowballed against Crooked Hillary.

Check out this video for more California Democratic voters' take on Hillary Clinton:

Here's more:

And more:

Here's a video connecting the Associated Press to an early announce for Hillary Clinton's primary victory ahead of the California primary.

This is the kind of news that  more people needed to know about in California ...

Republicans, Go For Brokered

The Republican Party Convention will not have a clear winner in July. 

There will be floor fights. There will be blood, perhaps. 

But at the end of the convention, someone is going to be drinking someone else’s milkshake. 

Deal with it. 

Of course, the Vain-scream media will go on about the impending demise of the Republican Party, for the fourth time this week in this month. The destruction of the conservative movement, coupled with the propping up and promotion of every illiberal cause under the sun, is the clear and convincing modus operandi  of the press. 

They finally stopped trying to hide their eminent disdain for Republicans. Of course, none of this matters. 

Republicans faced a contested convention in 1976. The campaigns up to the eleventh hour did not make or break the Republican Party then, and they were not responsible for incumbent appointed President Gerald Ford’s unsettling loss later than year. Let’s not forget that the national nightmare had ended two years prior, with the first resignation of America’s chief executive ever. 

Ford did the unpopular—yet principled thing—in the long run, pardoned Richard Nixon. The Republican brand was hurting badly. Conservatives were trying to bring fiscal restraint back into play. Former Governor Reagan had pushed a strong primary game. Then he took on a pro-union liberal Republican as running mate, and solidified Ford’s nomination—and nominal victory. 

Twenty plus years before that, Republicans had another brokered convention, with the final battle between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Robert Taft. Despite the ruminations of the press dissecting Republican conflicts and losses, the convention was an open, heated process. The delegates ended up liking Ike, and so did the rest of the country in 1952 and 1956. A consummate general and fiscal conservative, Eisenhower sparked a conservative revolution in his own right.

So, Republicans and conservative leading Independents and Democrats (yes, they are out there, and growing) should not fear a brokered GOP convention. 

In fact, I say “Go for brokered!” since seventeen candidates, all qualified and well-connected, had launched their respective bids. Even the weakest or most implausible of the bunch would serve as better commanders-in-chief than four more years of failed Obamanomics and Apology Tour foreign policies. 

I am not a bit worried about a brokered convention. Not one bit. 

Whoever takes the nomination will be taking back the Republic from the evil empire of special interests, cultural cronyism, and the Big Business-Big Labor phalanx, which has been looking out for itself and at the expense of the  law-abiding American body politick. 

Yes, even Donald Trump would suffice as the standard-bearer, however below the standard he may fall for conservatives across the country. 

And yet … 

Donald Trump the supposedly inevitable nominee is stalling in the middle of the primary cycle. On the Democratic side, so is Hillary Clinton, to everyone’s amazement. 

What’s wrong, Donald? I thought you had mastered the art of the deal? He has not shown himself to be much of a winner over the last series of primary contests. 

He lost Wisconsin, and he will lose Indiana. If Cruz connects with the conservative grassroots in Upstate New York, and Kasich makes his case to a plurality of voters in liberal, urban regions, Cruz keeps trump from a Big Apple sweep and ensures a convention fight. 

The Donald, the one who hates losers, has turned into quite the whiner. 

For the past week, he exclaims that the convention rules, the RNC, anyone who has done better than he this far is stacking the deck against him. 

Let’s take Colorado. 

The Trumpsters all over the blogosphere have fired at the Republican Party leaders in the Colorful State. Allegations of backroom deals and outright denials of the right to vote are dragging down the outcome. Now let’s consider those who have won elections there. Cory  Gardner, the junior US Senator from Colorado, set the record straight. The rules were laid out well in advance for all candidates to learn and follow. The right ground game and organization would have benefited any candidate who took the time to reach out and work the different delegations to get the delegates. Why? The state GOP decided to reorganize their primary process to better ensure their influence in the nomination process. 

Lo and behold, Lyin-in-wait Ted Cruz followed the rules, and swept the Colorado representatives. He is working hard to line up potential second ballot supporters in other states, too. It’s called “working”. It’s called “the art of making the deal when you know how to play.” Gardner offered two pithy insights of his own: a dark-horse Darryl Glenn, US Senate candidate to replace Michael Bennett, leapt into the Top spot, followed by two others. The well-monied Colorado Establishment picks tanked. Oh, Gardner also pointed out the following: if a presidential candidate cannot navigate the simple delegate rules for one state convention, what makes anyone think he can lead an army or develop a plan for a balanced budget? 

Gardner is worth listening to. His operations halted the left-wing takeover of his state, and his ongoing efforts will ensure blue Colorado goes to purple and red again. 

As for Donald Trump: Sorry, Mr. Apprentice, but you’re fired! After the Colorado conniption, one California conservative told me that he now supports Cruz. Why? Donald’s Trumper-tantrum. Boo hoo! 

The same Ted Cruz pattern of strategy and direct targeting worked in his favor again at the end of the week, this time in Wyoming. Major conservative sites outlined that Trump was all but giving up those delegates, anyway. 

A brokered convention is coming, Republicans. Why should anyone be surprised? It’s not as if any one candidate has scored a decisive majority of delegates, or ever could with the large crowd and diverse body of Republicans in play. 

In the meantime, two old, white socialists are climbing over each other for the Democratic nomination, and one of them will lose the other’s voting bloc in the general. Republicans are going for brokered, but the Democrats will be broke—and broken—come November.