Hawaii RINOs Cave Again: Silent and Motionless

Both Ostrov and Tupola frittered away the past two months — one as state chair, the other as GOP minority leader — knowing full well that the Democrats would be coming for our wallets with a special session.  Both made the same decision:  To follow the explicit instructions of Pat Saiki and Miriam Hellreich to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHINGto leverage the Hawaii GOP organization and membership to fight back against the threat of higher taxes.  Instead of leading the fight, these RINO's who hijacked our party gave the order to stand down and let taxpayers get screwed.

Even more tragically for potential Republican voters, donors, volunteers and candidates is the Saiki/Hellreich policy which prohibits your Hawaii GOP from even speaking out and/or organizing for battle over the issues which matter to all Republicans.  To those in denial, you can continue pretending to believe that Ostrov chose Saiki to be her running mate and vice chair for the next two years.  Nope, Saiki chose Ostrov to be the next facade puppet in line following Fritz Rohlfing and David Chang.  The reality of the past two months reveals how the next 16 months between now and Election Day 2018 will be a slow-motion trainwreck at the hands of Team Ostrov and Team Tupola.

There's no question that two long months have been completely squandered instead of exploited to advance a GOP agenda.  Today, as expected, Democrats launched their newest assault on taxpayer wallets.  Our party knew this attack was coming.  Our party leaders did nothing.  Shirlene Ostrov and Andria Tupola just did Democrats a HUGE favor.  Of course, the actual credit for selling Republicans down the river really goes to GOP vice chair Pat Saiki and longtime GOP committeewoman Miriam Hellreich.  They are the architects of our party's doom.  They have kept Republicans on the sidelines and they always will.