Advertisement - Click to support our sponsors.

Dole to Isle GOP:
You make a difference

PHILADELPHIA -- Hawaii delegates at the Republican National Convention were reminded by former Sen. Bob Dole that the state's four Electoral College votes for president do count.

Dole, speaking to delegates last week at a breakfast, noted that in 1976 when he was a vice-presidential candidate with Gerald Ford, they would have won over Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale if Hawaii and Ohio had gone to the GOP.

The margin of victory in the two states was slim. If 3,687 voters in Hawaii and 4,667 in Ohio had gone to the Republicans instead of the Democrats, Carter and Mondale would have lost the election by one Electoral College vote.

BARBOUR DUE:

Sen. Bob "Nighthorse" Campbell, R-Colo., chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, will be in Hawaii in December to meet with native Hawaiian groups. The visit, Campbell said, is being set up by Sen. Daniel Inouye's office.

Also coming to town is former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour. Barbour is widely credited with helping Republicans gain a majority in Congress in 1994.

He will be in town Aug. 28 and 29 for a $1,000 a person fund-raising dinner and a breakfast, said Howard Chong, who is organizing the visit. His talk will be on what will happen if George W. Bush gets elected to the White House.

GREEN DISPUTE:

Green Party officials on the Big Island said they plan to seek action in Kona Circuit Court today to decertify the candidacy of Daryl "Buck" Wheat as a Green candidate for Hawaii County mayor.

Green Party rules require candidates running as Greens to be party members and declare they support the party platform, said party co-chairman Ira Rohter.

Co-chairman Jeanne O'Brien said, "We know nothing about Mr. Wheat's background -- except that he runs a store called Buck's Firearms and Surplus."

Since 1994, the Greens have successfully decertified four other would-be Green candidates who failed to meet state laws and party bylaws, the officials said.

Unless his candidacy is decertified, Wheat will face Green mayoral candidate Keiko Bonk in the primary election.

---

Legislature Directory
Legislature Bills & Hawaii Revised Statutes