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Honolulu Civil Beat
April 20, 2018
KAHALUU BAY, Hawaii Island – A Big Island nonprofit isn't waiting for the Hawaii Legislature, which may soon ban the sale of sunscreen products ... our beaches and our parks on this island and throughout Hawaii,” said Liam Kernell, director of communications for the Kohala Center, which since 2006 hasÃâà...
KITV Honolulu
April 19, 2018
August 30, 2004 - Delivers a speech at the Republican National Convention in New York and later campaigns for President George W. Bush's re-election. March 2005 - Joins the Texas law firm of Bracewell & Patterson as a partner. The firm is then renamed Bracewell & Giuliani. 2006 - President BushÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
April 18, 2018
With Mike Pompeo's nomination to be secretary of state already uncertain, a Democratic group is launching a new ad campaign urging more senators to ... At least four other senators, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, both of Rhode Island,Ãâà...
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
April 17, 2018
The Washington Post also won the investigative reporting prize for revealing decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct against Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama. The Republican former judge denied the accusations, but they figured heavily in Doug Jones' victory as the first Democrat elected toÃâà...
KITV Honolulu
April 17, 2018
(CNN) -- The battle between the parties for control of the closely divided US Senate has become a contest between the exception and the rule. ... The result, as I have written, is that for congressional candidates, the name on the back of a candidate's jersey now usually matters less than the color on the frontÃâà...
Honolulu Civil Beat
April 13, 2018
Welcome to Ad Watch, a Civil Beat series in which we analyze campaign messages from Hawaii candidates and national spots aimed at Hawaii voters. There was a time when the name Kim Coco Iwamoto was fairly well known. In 2006, when she was elected to the Hawaii Board of Education, it made herÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
April 10, 2018
Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, asks if Facebook would cooperate with ICE, if ICE told Facebook someone was going to commit a crime. In general, Zuckerberg says it would not cooperate. Facebook can cooperate with law enforcement if presented with a subpoena but if the subpoena is too broad Facebook willÃâà...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
April 6, 2018
Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian to serve in the Senate, was a strong advocate for Native Hawaiians and veterans during a political career that started in the House of ... But Akaka, who enjoyed establishment and union support, finished the campaign strong and beat Saiki with 54 percent of the vote.
KITV Honolulu
April 4, 2018
One vote does matter in the US Senate. She voted against tax reform. She voted to fund sanctuary cities. She even voted to allow late-term abortions. These are not North Dakota's values." Heitkamp's campaign criticized the remarks, accusing Cramer of putting loyalty to Trump ahead of the state's interests.
Honolulu Civil Beat
March 30, 2018
It was at the Hawaii State Capitol the day after Trump's inauguration that Fukumoto garnered gobs of attention when she addressed the Honolulu .... Finally, it's still possible for other brand-name candidates to enter the CD1 free-for-all, although time is running short in terms of raising campaign cash.
The Providence Journal
March 8, 2018
Former Democratic Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown is “exploring the possibility” of running for governor as an independent, he announced Wednesday on a new campaign website. Brown, whose last campaign for public office was an abbreviated U.S. Senate bid in 2006, filed campaign financeÃâà...
KITV Honolulu
March 7, 2018
But there's also no way one can look at the results and think Democrats are going to win in Texas in 2018, which is not good news for Democratic candidates like Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who is hoping to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz in November. All of this, of course, depends on how indicative primary turnout is forÃâà...
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
March 6, 2018
WASHINGTON — A former Trump campaign aide promised to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller and unloaded on President Donald Trump ... Thad Cochran of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told The Associated Press on Monday that he will resign April 1Ãâà...
KITV Honolulu
March 6, 2018
In December, an attorney for David Kramer -- an associate to Sen. John McCain who had met with former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele -- sent a letter to the House Intelligence Committee accusing the committee's Republicans of leaking information about Kramer's December testimony to theÃâà...
KITV Honolulu
March 6, 2018
The Democratic Senate candidate, former Gov. Phil Bredesen, is also a former two-term mayor of Nashville, but comes from a far more centrist political tradition (for example, Bredesen supported a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in 2006, while Barry performed the state's first gayÃâà...
KITV Honolulu
March 6, 2018
The two surveys that have been released in the past three months have been from a Democratic-leaning outside group and Cruz's own campaign. ... Just remember that the January to June polling average before the election in Senate races from 2006 to 2014 had an average error of 6.8 percentage points,Ãâà...
KITV Honolulu
February 27, 2018
"Over the past several months, Senator Corker has been encouraged by people across Tennessee and in the Senate to reconsider his decision not to seek ... Corker, who was at one time among those considered a candidate to be President Donald Trump's secretary of state, was critical of the PresidentÃâà...
KITV Honolulu
February 10, 2018
But in the first public forum to bring together all five candidates, put on by the LGBT and Labor Caucuses, each candidate laid out their case as to why ... State Sen. Will Espero (D, 'Ewa Beach-portion of 'Ewa Villages): "I will be a strong advocate for Hawaii because it's the people of Hawaii who will elect me.
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
December 31, 1999
If Democrats had asked a Hollywood studio to supply a candidate for this time and place, it would have sent Lamb. He is 33, 6 foot 3, the nephew of Pittsburgh's controller and the grandson of a former majority leader of the state Senate. He has the polish of a former Marine officer and federal prosecutor, andÃâà...
KITV Honolulu
December 31, 1999
Receives 71% of the vote. 2013-2015 - Serves as chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. April 30, 2015 - Announces his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in an email to supporters and media. May 1, 2015 - Sanders' campaign raises more than $1.5 million in its first 24 hours.
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