GOP Aims To Field Candidates in Most Local Races

Chad Blair/Civil Beat

They are young, middle-aged and approaching senior status. They are brown and white, male and female.

They are the Hawaii Republican Party, and they want your vote.

With just six work days before the July 20 candidate filing deadline, the party held a photo op Monday at the Hawaii Office of Elections in Pearl City.

The event was billed as "exemplifying unity," and that it did. The party is betting some of its candidates will defeat their Democratic opponents, perhaps by channeling anger over issues like Hawaii civil unions and education.

Maybe they will. But sure numerical superiority and the advantage of incumbency suggests it will be difficult.

Barring major scandal, a political tsunami or bubonic plague, the Democratic Party of Hawaii is likely to firmly retain its overwhelming dominance.

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