Lifestyles

Eddie London, editor

Election 2006 Hawai‘i style: ‘Last hurrah’ or ‘beginning of a new era’

Editor’s note: Hawai‘i voters select party candidates in the Sept. 23 primary for a number of key elections across the state. Two democratic party races are receiving the most attention: the contest between incumebent U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka and challenger, U.S. Rep. Ed Case, and the 10-way contest to run for Case’s House seat. Kalamalama has put together, for your voting convenience, short bios on Akaka, Case, eight of the Democrat contenters for Case’s House seat, and the issues on which they stand.

Depending on who wins the Senate primary, one political commentator, Dr. Jack Hart, HPU professor of communication, has already called the election: “Either the last hurrah for the old Democratic Party or the beginning of a new era for Hawai‘i’s young Democrats.” And that’s the focus of Rep. Case’s challenge of incumbent Senator Akaka.

Daniel Akaka

Many political observers were surprised when Ed Case challenged Hawai‘i’s popular and enduring Senator Daniel Akaka, 81. [More]

Daniel Akaka

Many political observers were surprised when Ed Case challenged Hawai‘i’s popular and enduring Senator Daniel Akaka, 81. [More]

Garcia and Hirono

City Council member Nestor Garcia, 45, the vice president of corporate communications at City Bank, is married with two children. He has been a state representative and a TV news reporter. [More]

Hee and Hooser

Clayton Hee served as a state representative for Molokai, Lanai, and West Maui and as chairman of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs before being elected to represent windward O‘ahu in the State Senate. [More]

Hanabusa, Matsunaga

Colleen Hanabusa represents Leeward O‘ahu in the Hawai‘i State Senate. The oldest of three children, she was raised in Waianae and attended public schools in the area, until the seventh grade. She graduated from St. Andrews Priory with honors. At UH-Manoa she majored in economics and sociology and graduated with an M.A. in 1975 and a law degree in 1977. [More]

Schatz and Menor

Brian Schatz has represented Makiki, Manoa, and Tantalus in the State House for the past eight years. He is the only candidate in the Second Congressional District race who has given up his seat in the legislature to run for Congress. [More]