Also bound for Denver, originally uploaded by ilind. Rep. Mark Takai wandered by. He’s on a flight to Denver via San Francisco. He’ll get there before I will, but this flight saved me $300.
Entries from August 23rd, 2008
All aboard!
August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · General
All aboard!, originally uploaded by ilind. They’re getting ready to board our flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles. I don’t get to walk on United’s “Red carpet”, in reality sort of a small red bath mat. And they just announced that the movie may not work. No “Kung Fu Panda” for us. At least the [...]
Making sense of seemingly contradictory City Charter provisions on initiative petitions
August 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Campaigns, Politics
How many signatures does it take to put a question on the ballot by initiative? The anti-rail initiative petition and rival claims about what the law says have caused a lot of confusion. Yesterday I quoted section 3-402 of the Honolulu City Charter, which seems to clearly set the threshold at 10 percent of voters [...]
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Media Matters criticizes reporting of Biden plagiarism claims
August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · General
Media Matters for America sent out a quick response regarding current reporting of supposed plagiarism by VP pick Joe Biden two decades ago. Here’s a link to the full response, and a summary follows: Summary: The Los Angeles Times reported that when Sen. Joe Biden ran for president in 1987, he “was accused of plagiarism [...]
Biden drops off Hawaii delegation’s list of breakfast speakers
August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Campaigns, Politics
Not surprisingly, Senator and now VP candidate Joe Biden of Delaware disappeared from the Hawaii delegations list of breakfast speakers in the latest schedule update for next week. Denver’s mayor also fell off the schedule. The latest lineup of breakfast speakers are Denver City Council President Jeannie Robb and Jamie Van Leeuwen on Monday, Arkansas [...]
Saturday…initiative signature requirement, ‘Tiser contract, Obama profile in Washington Post, UHM outsources towing, and now off to Denver
August 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · Campaigns, Media, Politics
According to a S-B story this morning, the Stop Rail Now folks say they’re going back to court to argue against the city’s requirement that they have about 44,000 signatures to get their question on the ballot. Stop Rail Now contends it needs about 30,000 signatures, an amount equal to 10 percent of the number [...]
