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U.S. Senate
*Denotes incumbent
Daniel K. Akaka*
DEMOCRAT
Age: 76
Job: Senator
Years here: 76What are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
I am proud of my work to boost education, increase opportunities for all our children, strengthen our economy and help parents balance work and family. ... I have taken the lead in promoting renewable energy research and development; park and wildlife issues; tropical agriculture and coral reef conservation; ocean sciences and technology; aquaculture research; and marine protection.
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
Economy: Trade with China and the rest of Asia, and new business prospects require a strong commitment to critical national priorities: education and job training. Security: I also want to see Congress act to fix Social Security and Medicare for the long-term, add a voluntary prescription drug benefit to Medicare, pass long-term care insurance coverage ... Energy: I am working to promote a multifaceted energy strategy. ...
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
I am working to build a better future for all the people of Hawaii, including ... native Hawaiians. We have taken steps forward in the process of reconciliation between the United States and native Hawaiians. We are working to clarify the political relationship between native Hawaiians and the federal government and establish a process for native Hawaiians to determine what relationship they want.
John Carroll
REPUBLICAN
Age: 70
Job: Attorney/pilot/chairman of the Board of Hawaii Aviation Contract Services
Years here: 51What are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
First, a combination of diverse career backgrounds. Lived in Hawaii for over 50 years. Member of the state Legislature for five terms, four in House, one in Senate, 34-year military career, Korean War jet fighter pilot, staff Judge Advocate. Involved in aviation law and international business over the past 25 years.
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
1) Depressed economy, unemployment and underemployment. 2) Education system generally failed (50th among states in almost all critiques), teacher's pay, student/teacher ratio, and the results of the SATs. 3) Coastal shipping rules strain Hawaii's businesses and people.
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
The federal government's role in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue is a very complex issue. I have attached a proposal published in the Honolulu Advertiser on July 23, 2000, and reparations from Aug. 9, 2000.
Lauri A. Clegg
NATURAL LAW
Age: 49
Job: None given
Years here: 17What are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
Committed to restoring democracy through the elimination of PACs and soft money. Common sense, effective solutions to our nation's problems such as preventative health care, use of renewable energy, sustainable agricultural practices, education reform, proven crime prevention programs etc. are not being implemented due to special interest control.
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
a) Education reform that develops full mental potential through curriculum innovations proven to increase intelligence and academic performance. b) Ensuring a strong economy by harnessing our greatest resource -- the unlimited creativity and intelligence of our citizens. c) The release of genetically engineered organisms into our delicate ecosystem and into our food supply.
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
To uphold the constitutional rights of all citizens. The Natural Law Party recognizes that it is the responsibility of every citizen to take advantage of the knowledge and programs of natural law as the only way for life to be lived in full dignity of individual, community and cosmic values.
James R. Deluze
REPUBLICAN
Age: 51
Job: Primary care physician
Years here: 37What are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
As a Christian primary care physician, I'm trained with skills. Ability to sift through complex, sometimes contradictory, information to discern relevant truth (diagnosis), communicate complex ideas in laymen's terminology and honor truth and justice. The dedication and skill to do what is right because it's right rather than politically expedient.
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
Legal, political reform and rule of law with equal access and justice. Lawyers, judges, politicians answer to no one, mocking justice. Health care reform, Hillary's plan passed piecemeal becoming law and insurance gets over 50 percent. Free and independent media, ending censorship. Media's bias usurps citizens right to sovereignty, self-government.
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
A resource facilitating thorough examination of historical records, fairly discerning whom are the kingdom's children. Education regarding the complete history, so Hawaii's children can make a knowledgeable, thoughtful decision regarding Hawaii's future. There's no room for racist, carpetbagger politicians bringing anger and divisiveness by abusing this process for political gain.
Eugene F. Douglass
REPUBLICAN
Age: 42
Job: Science teacher at St. Francis School of Kauai
Years here: 3What are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
I believe that my beliefs about education, taxes, government control of business, and the place of the federal government in our lives are more consistent with the majority of Hawaii's people. The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate needs more scientists/teachers. I have a bachelor's in chemistry and math, a master's degree in polymer chemistry, a master's of divinity in theology.
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
The top three issues are: a) Taxes on both the federal and state level are too high and the code is too complicated. They need to be reduced and the tax code simplified. b) Federal and state regulations on small businesses need to be minimized and duplication ended. c) Control, and responsibility for public education needs to be brought back to the local level.
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
The federal government's role should be hands off, with a return of title of current federal and state land wrongfully appropriated when Hawaii was annexed, and appropriate rent paid on any further use, to a local Hawaiian entity set up by native Hawaiians for native Hawaiians. Another department in the Department of Interior is funda-mentally the wrong direction ...
Harry J. Friel
REPUBLICAN
Age: 33
Job: Former state Capitol office manager
Years here: 4What are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
Strong, faith-based, principled leader, working hard to give hope to Hawaii's poor and homeless with an exceptional focus on improving our children's education. Heavily influenced by blessed Damien of Molokai. Able to quickly overcome adversity and use it to steel my resolve. Advocate for nation-to-nation recognition.
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
Education: Its high price and poor results strangle the potential of our children and hurt our families. Sovereignty: An open wound being further agitated through the lukewarm effort of the Akaka bill. Quality of life: A general concern that our future generations may not enjoy a high level of aloha!
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
The federal government should undo the wrong and set aside land to restore the kingdom of Hawaii.
Lloyd Jeffrey Mallan
LIBERTARIANAge: 56
Job: Writer/photographer/Web developer
Years here: 14
What are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
A wide range of experiences that have been building understanding, spanning from receiving an B.A. from Penn State and MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University, being a Peace Corps volunteer in India, a social worker, a college professor of drama, a professional writer, photographer and businessperson.
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
The three top issues are the criminalization of Hawaiians with laws like drug prohibition, Hawaiian sovereignty and the need to stabilize our currency.
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
The federal government should sell its lands and give Hawaiians the first choice to buy them, either from auction or sales. It should not attempt to create another government for Hawaiians. If they decided, Hawaiians then could choose to form their own governance with these lands.
Paul Manner
CONSTITUTION
Age: 49
Job: Freelance news correspondent
Years here: 43What are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
No response
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
Only one issue: Vice President Al Gore is the third anti-Christ depicted in the Bible. He'll soon become America's next president and bring about World War III. Again, Al Gore is the third anti-Christ, he'll soon become our next president and he's going to kill us all. By electing Paul Manner to the U.S. Senate, the voters of Hawaii will put me in a position to take Gore down.
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
No response
David Porter
CONSTITUTION
Age: 56
Job: Financial planner for Integrated Financial GroupWhat are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
I am very familiar with the Constitution for the United States of America, and with its restrictions on the power and authority of our government. I have the rights of the people and the preservation of our great nation at the top of my priorities. I have been involved in the legislative process here in Hawaii for over a decade, testifying before legislative committees on a variety of issues.
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
1) Our paychecks, and the bankrupting of the people through layer on layer of illegal taxes. 2) The erosion of our rights under the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, through increased government invasion in every area of our lives. 3) The non-education of our children through federal government control and the direction education has been taking.
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
The United Nations is in the process of affirming a new U.N. Charter which will, if it is approved by the U.N. and Congress or by presidential executive order (an illegal assumption of power on his part), require all member nations to give up their national sovereignty, making the question of Hawaiian sovereignty irrelevant. That new U.N. Charter is the greatest issue facing the people ...
Art P. Reyes
DEMOCRAT
Age: 48
Job: Navy retiree
Years here: 22What are the unique qualifications you bring to this job?
Genuine public passion to serve. Master's degree, Central Michigan, 1996. BS, WBU, Plainview, Texas, 1983. AA, UCM, RP 1971. Over 25 years of federal service, serving in the Department of Justice, Veterans Administration, Commerce (NOAA), Navy, Army, Public Safety, U.S.M.C., Defense.
What are the top three issues facing Hawaii (from most pressing to least)?
Economics: Need good-paying jobs. Quality of education: Better resources and outsource our educational systems. High cost of living: Folks are working double/triple jobs, which leave the kids with inadequate parental supervision. I have a mission to solve these.
What role should the federal government have in the native Hawaiian sovereignty issue?
1) The federal courts are hearing case-works of these issues including the reclamation of lands. 2) To go back on the issue of sovereignty is like going back to Political Science 101. To have sovereignty, one must have people, nation, land, powers/jurisdiction/(constitutional mandate), then sovereignty. The U.S. is indivisible and it's hard to move Father Time backwards.
