In the Primary Election thread, Kamuelakea said:
How do you explain, then, that John Mizuno beat Terry Visperas in District 30, which is Kalihi Valley, the heart of Filipino Honolulu? Seems to me that all those Democratic voters liked their departing incumbent, Dennis Arakaki, and they decided that since Mizuno was Arakaki's right-hand man, he'd be a good replacement. It wasn't their ethnicity that got Arakaki elected and re-elected so many times, and Mizuno elected to replace him -- it was their politics.
We could have skipped all the vote counts and just gone on demographics once again. Political party means nothing, political philosophy means nothing. Its all about ethnicity. Oh, and don't forget the time honored tradition of Hawaiis plantation Asian Democrats last minute smear whisper campaigns. Wouldn't be a Hawaii election without one of those.
Okay, everybody back to what you've been doing the past 50 years. Nothing's changed.
Okay, everybody back to what you've been doing the past 50 years. Nothing's changed.
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