Hawaii RINOs Join Hawaii Climate Accord with Paris–AUWE!

This past Sunday, just two short days before her 1st month-a-versary of taking over as Miriam Hellreich and Pat Saiki's handpicked chairperson for the Hawaii GOP, Shirlene Ostrov used her Kam Day e-mail message to attack the legislature's really stupid 'feel good'global warming bill becauseSenate Bill 559 "would subject the state of Hawaii to the same job-killing regulations found in theParis Accord, just days after President Trump wisely withdrew our nation from that flawed agreement."

But back here in Hawaii, in a desperate cry for attention, Hawaii Democrats introduced their "Paris Agreement" legislation mandating alignment of Hawaii's official state goals with the bogus Paris climate accord.  Former Republicans turned Democrats Willie Espero, Mike Gabbard, and Gil Riviere along with progressive Slom-slayer Stanley Chang plus a host of liberal Democrat state senators introduced their nutty bill on January 20th, the very firstday of the 2017 session of the state legislature.

In the midst of the months-long RINO civil war for control of our Hawaii GOP between Team Hellreich's candidate Shirlene Ostrov and Team Rohlfing's candidate Andria Tupola, the Hawaii Republican Party's leadership and the House GOP minority caucus (home to the only remaining 5 elected Republicans in Hawaii) were totally silent and disengaged.  Nothing was said or done by Republican leaders to stop or fight or even expose this global warming bill or any other bad legislation.  Zero mobilization of our 30,000+ members.  Zero anything.

All that mattered over the past six months was recruiting and flying willing delegates to Kauai for a go-through-the-motions state convention while Democrats and progressives laughed at our increasing irrelevance.

Since Kauai, the newly-installed Hellreich/Saiki leadership of the Hawaii GOP (fronted by Ostrov) has made zero attempt to educate and persuade the public at large — let alone Republicans — to get engaged and help urge Ige to veto this bill . . . or any other bad bill (and there were plenty of them).

Now, don't get the wrong idea.  The Tupola vs. Ostrov campaign is not the reason our party leaders were 'too busy' to fight with Democrats.  Let's face it, the Hawaii GOP never fights with Democrats.  But that long intra-party struggle for empty supremacy happened to coincide perfectly with the 2017 legislative session when our GOP was deader than dead.  As Star-Advertiser David Shapirocandidly pointed out yesterday in his story about former Republican Kym Pine-Ryglowski and closet Democrat Bob McDermott, it's impossible to ignore "the irrelevance of the Hawaii GOP as an opposition party."

So, in other words, most elected Republicans in HawaiiFAVOR what Ostrov belatedly decried as "job-killing regulations",including Beth Fukumoto's replacement as minority leader Andria Tupola.  Somewhere, Beth Fukumoto is laughing at the party of Miriam Hellreich and Pat Saiki, who have typically refused to even allow or encourage the Hawai'i GOP to wage a public campaign against any Democrat policies.  Why? Because issues don't matter, they say.

It's decision time, folks.  Our party's soul-searching can either come todaywhile we still have FIVE Republicans left in office. Or we can wait until we'redown to ZERO.

Even if you were one of those who placed hope in Shirlene Ostrov, you gotta be honest with yourself.  She is under a LOT of pressure from liberals Hellreich and Saiki to ignore issues and just wait on the sidelines until it's time to hand out Charles Djou bumperstickers or signwave for Duke Aiona or await the return of Linda Lingle from the political desert.  But WE are the residents of Hawaii who have to endurethese horrible, failed Democrat policies.  So we must make sure that leaders of our party know we're onto the game they're playing.

Everybody knows that Ostrov's liberal pals Hellreich and Saiki are asdetermined as ever tokeep the Hawaii GOP worthless and weak and on the sidelines.  [Though they do want our money so they can finish buying a fancy suite of offices for theprivately-run Oahu League of RINO Women (OLRW), whose executive officers are nearly identical to the current Hawaii GOP executive officers.]  With Ostrov transparently manipulating Republicans with a belated critique of the Democrats' global warming bill that it's now too late to do anything about, this cynical maneuver only serves to wake up Republicans statewide that our party is as committed as ever to electing RINO's to office who will vote for such crappy bills; many of which HIRA has publicly criticized in 2017.