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Know Your Maui County 2016 Election Candidate: Alan Kaufman
So this year MauiTime has emailed 2016 election questionnaires to nearly every candidate* running for office that’s relevant to Maui County voters. For the next few months–until the Primary and...
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Know Your 2016 Maui County Election Candidate: John Carroll
John Carroll is a Honolulu Republican running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Brian Schatz. A former state senator, Carroll previously ran in 2012 for the Senate seat then held by...
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Know Your Maui County 2016 Election Candidate: Eric Hafner
Eric Hafner is from Mountain View on the Big Island. He’s one of four challengers trying to unseat U.S. Congressional Representative Tulsi Gabbard, D–2nd District. Though Hafner is running as a...
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Know Your 2016 Maui County Election Candidate: Gil Keith-Agaran
Though state Senator Gil Keith-Agaran, D–Kahului, Waihee and Wailuku, is running for reelection this year, he has no challengers. Still, he’ll be on the ballot and we wanted to know his thoughts on...
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Know Your 2016 Maui County Election candidate: Richard Turner
There are five people running to represent the 2nd Congressional District. Two Democrats (incumbent Tulsi Gabbard and Shay Chan Hodges), two Republicans (Eric Hafner and Angela Aulani Kaaihu) and...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Trinette Furtado
This year, there are three people running for the Maui County Council seat representing Makawao, Haiku and Paia. Mike White, the current Chairperson of the County Council, is running for reelection,...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Keith Regan
Keith Regan is the County of Maui’s Managing Director. He’s held the job for nearly eight years. Though he’s one of Mayor Alan Arakawa’s top advisers and aides, Regan’s post doesn’t actually include...
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Drew Toonz tunes into Mexican Shark Week
Illustration: Andrew Miller The post Drew Toonz tunes into Mexican Shark Week appeared first on Maui Time.
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Shay Chan Hodges
Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. Congressional Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd District, is enormously popular. In the 2014 election, she won reelection with nearly 76 percent of the vote. But she’s...
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Know your Maui County 2016 election candidate: Stacey Moniz
Stacey Moniz is one of four candidates running this year for the Maui County Council seat representing Upcountry.Gladys Baisa, who was first elected in 2006, is termed out this year. Though a...
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Know your Maui County 2016 election candidate: Dain Kane
From 1998 to 2006, Dain Kane represented Wailuku on the Maui County Council. He ran for mayor in 2006, lost, then did a bunch of political odd jobs around the county. Now he wants his own seat back,...
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Know your Maui County 2016 election candidate: John Roco
This year, there are four Republicans running for the pleasure of losing to incumbent U.S. Senator Brian Schatz, D–Hawaii (okay, I’m kidding, though given the immense power the Democratic Party holds...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Kelly King
Kelly King is one of four candidates running for the Maui County Council seat representing South Maui (which is currently held by Don Couch, who is running for reelection). King and her husband Robert...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Deidre Tegarden
There are two Democrats running for the 11th District state representative seat. One of them is Kaniela Ing, the incumbent, and the other is Deidre Tegarden. When Neil Abercrombie was governor,...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Kaniela Ing
First elected in 2012, Democrat Kaniela Ing represents South Maui in the Hawaii state Legislature. He defeated incumbent Republican George Fontaine that year (a very rare feat in any Maui County...
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Drew Toonz: So that’s why Melania Trump is still playing with My Little Pony
Illustration: Andrew Miller The post Drew Toonz: So that’s why Melania Trump is still playing with My Little Pony appeared first on Maui Time.
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Miles Shiratori
Back in 2014, Miles Shiratori ran in the Democratic Primary to be state lieutenant governor (in fact, his website Milesshiratori.com hasn’t yet been updated since that race). He lost to Shan Tsutsui...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Makani Christensen
Makani Christensen is another of the four Democrats challenging incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (click here for Miles Shiratori’s questionnaire). He’s relatively young (36), a Marine...
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UPDATED: Here’s why the Hawaii LGBT Caucus doesn’t support Rep. Tulsi...
[NOTE: A few hours after this story went live we finally received comment from Rep. Gabbard’s campaign. The story has been updated to include it.] Back in the summer of 2012, while preparing our...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Alex Haller
Back in 2014, Alex Haller–a landscaper with a business finance degree from Cal State San Luis Obispo watched the council deliberate over Launiupoko development. After concluding that the...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Eric Molina
Eric Molina works as an event manager at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center and as the vice president of an advertising firm. He’s also been appointed to a couple County of Maui boards, like the...
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UPDATED: South Maui Rep. Kaniela Ing deals with traffic bench warrant after...
State Representative Kaniela Ing, D–South Maui, is only now dealing with a bench warrant dating Feb. 18 of this year, after MauiTime inquired on the matter. The $250 warrant was issued by the Second...
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Quizunderstood: What do you know about Maui County Councilman Don Couch’s...
1. On July 25, Planned Parenthood announced their candidate endorsements for Hawaii. Which of the following candidates for state office in Maui County did NOT receive a Planned Parenthood endorsement?...
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South Maui Rep. Kaniela Ing releases statement on arrest; MPD releases...
Last night, state Representative Kaniela Ing, D–South Maui, released a statement on his July 26 arrest on a $250 traffic infraction bench warrant issued back in February of this year. Here’s Ing’s...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Alika Atay
Alika Atay is one of five candidates for the Maui County Council seat representing Wailuku, Waihee and Waikapu. As a measure of the competitiveness of the race, all five candidates filled out and...
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CORRECTED: Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Richard Abbett
NOTE: This post originally mis-identified the location of Richard Abbett’s 2014 candidacy. It has been corrected. Two years ago, Richard Abbett was living on Oahu, and he ran for a Honolulu City...
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MauiTime 2016 Hawaii State Primary Election Endorsement Guide
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by...
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Longtime Bernie Sanders supporter Tulsi Gabbard endorses Hillary Clinton for...
Yeah kids, this morning’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser is true: U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, one of the highest-ranking Democrats to back Bernie Sanders, now says she’ll vote for Hillary Clinton for...
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Drew Toonz: Trump Deports Crying Baby To Day Care!
Illustration: Andrew Miller The post Drew Toonz: Trump Deports Crying Baby To Day Care! appeared first on Maui Time.
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Quizunderstood: Do you know who nominated Bernie Sanders at the DNC?
1. On July 29, we posted a story on MauiTime.com listing the names of every Maui County candidate who’s signed up for public financing, according to the League of Women Voters. Which of following Maui...
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Here’s some feedback we got on our 2016 Hawaii Primary Election Endorsement...
It hasn’t even been a week since we laid down the first of our 2016 minefields (otherwise known as election endorsement issues), and we’ve taken about as much incoming fire as I expected. Whenever you...
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UPDATED: Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Tulsi Gabbard
And in what will likely be the last of these Know Your Candidate posts we put up before the Aug. 13 Hawaii Primary Election, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D–Hawaii, just squeaks in under the deadline with...
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Our take on the 2016 Hawaii Primary Election results for Maui County
Well, we have another Primary Election under our belts–another day in the state’s history when we let a sliver of the population narrow our choices for political leadership. As expected, turnout...
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Danny Pekus
Ok, the Hawaii Primary Election is over! Time to start prepping for the General Election in November! And what better way than by getting to know a few of the candidates. Danny Pekus is one of them....
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Know your Maui County 2016 election candidate: Vanessa Medeiros
Vanessa Medeiros is running for the Maui County Council seat representing Kahului, which is currently held by Don Guzman. She owns Positive Pathways, a finishing school for young women. During...
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Quizunderstood: Do you know how much beer Maui Brewing Co. will make this year?
1. According to the Hawaii Office of Elections, turnout in Maui County for the 2016 Primary Election was 29.6 percent. That’s pretty low, but one recent primary saw a mere 25.6 percent of Maui County...
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West Maui Taxpayers Association 2016 Candidates Night at Lahaina Civic Center
The West Maui Taxpayers Association (WMTA) is presenting their 2016 Candidates Night on Thursday, Aug. 25. All candidates that will appear on the West Maui ballot have been invited to attend (though...
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Think about the late Hawaii Health Director Loretta Fuddy when lying Donald...
So this morning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump scammed the media yet again, with a sham press conference that was actually a big PR stunt for one of his new hotels (outraged at being...
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Drew Toonz: No More Scary Clowns!
Illustration: Andrew Miller The post Drew Toonz: No More Scary Clowns! appeared first on Maui Time.
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Republican 10th District Candidate Chayne Marten arrested on sex assault charges
The 10th District state House race (which spans from West Maui to North Kihei) got a whole lot more complicated with the Oct. 11 arrest of Republican Chayne Marten, who is once again challenging...
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MauiTime’s 2016 General Election Endorsements
Ideally, an election is more than simply filling in the square next to a party affiliation. It should be about more than simply articulating a person’s privileges or bigotries. It should achieve more...
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Journalist Kate Bradshaw breaks down the true meaning of a vote for Jill Stein
For the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about how best to approach the very thorny subject of Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein voters in Hawaii. Though there’s no real polling done out...
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UPDATED: Trump Wins, America Loses: How the 2016 Election looks from Maui
Though more people ended up voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton, it is Republican Donald Trump who will be the next President of the United States. For those of us who believe in civil rights, the...
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Here’s Drew Toonz’ plan for dealing with the 2016 Election
Illustration: Andrew Miller The post Here’s Drew Toonz’ plan for dealing with the 2016 Election appeared first on Maui Time.
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UPDATED: We mapped three crucial 2016 Maui County Council elections
[NOTE: thanks to new spreadsheets provided by Maui political analyst Dick Mayer, we’ve updated this post to map three important Maui County Council races, rather than just the South Maui race from...
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This is how Maui County voters compared to rest of Hawaii in 2016...
Yeah, yeah, I know the election’s over and Donald Trump won and we should all just stop crying into our kombucha and get over it so our new overlord and his white nationalist minions can have their...
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Quizunderstood: Which county in Hawaii was the least supportive of Donald Trump?
1. On Nov. 18, MauiTime posted a table online, compiled by Maui political analyst Dick Mayer using data from Politico, showing how each county in Hawaii voted in the 2016 Presidential Election....
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Tulsi Gabbard, the 2016 election and the only way to fight ‘fake news’
If you hold that faith comes from understanding, that reason is preferable to dogma and that facts are knowable, definable things that transcend faith and bias, then you already know that we live in...
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MauiTime 2016 Year In Review
Even without the election of Republican Donald Trump to be President of the United States, this was a monstrous year. We’ve had to deal with job losses, outrageous giveaways to big business and just a...
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What I learned as a body painting canvas for Rachel Deboer
Early this fall, I binge watched all the Skin Wars seasons on Hulu. Though I had never met Rachel Deboer in person, I definitely knew who she was and have some Maui friends in common with her. So,...
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