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GOP senatorial
Winners & Losers By Rod Thompson
candidate flaunts
rightist conspiracy
Big Island correspondentHILO -- Eugene Douglass of Hilo is a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. He is also a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, he says.
A visit to his Web site, http:// www.douglass2000.org, tells how you, too, can join the conspiracy. Benefits include the ability to read a "Message to Conspiracy Members" using a "decoder ring."
Laugh if you will, but Douglass, 42, is serious about his candidacy. In 1998 he came in third in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate.
His wife, Carol, 37, won the 1998 Republican primary for Hawaii's 2nd District in the U.S. House but lost in the general election to Patsy Mink.
Both have filed to run again. Former football star Russ Francis has taken out papers to run as a Republican but has not filed yet in the 2nd District. So far, Carol Douglass faces James Donovan of Waimea in the GOP primary.
Eugene Douglass says, "I'm kind of a fed-up college teacher."
His resume shows he taught college chemistry and is now a high school substitute teacher. He also holds a Master of Divinity degree.
Carol Douglass is an art student at the University of Hawaii-Hilo.
Douglass says the professor in him comes out when he talks politics. He cannot stop lecturing on what he views as the mistaken ideas of Sen. Daniel Akaka ("a very likable man, but ...") and Rep. Patsy Mink ("stuck in the 1960s").
For more details and more fun with the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, go to Douglass' Web site.
Trying clicking on "Hate email: Communications from the left-wing whackos," actually written by the Conspiracy creators.
The "hate email" suggests Vice President Al Gore likes to make love to trees. Check for yourself what it says about Monica Lewinsky.
LINGLE: Linda Lingle, Hawaii's Republican Party chairwoman and unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1998, went to the nation's capital this week to receive the Evelyn McPhail Award from the national Republican Women Leaders Forum.
The late Evelyn McPhail was co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee from 1994 to 1997.
"Linda Lingle embodies Evelyn McPhail's belief in the power of the individual and their ability to effect changes," said Miriam Hellreich, national committeewoman for Hawaii.
BURNS: History professor and political commentator Dan Boylan will speak on former Hawaii Gov. John A. Burns and the democratization of the Hawaii Judiciary tomorrow at the Judiciary History Center.
The 4:30 p.m. lecture is part of the annual meeting of Friends of the Judiciary History Center.
Boylan is the author of a recently published book, "John A. Burns, The Man and His Times."
WINNERS ...
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... & LOSERS
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