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06-18-2010 - YWCA LeaderLuncheon 2010

It was a truly and honor to attend the YWCA Oahu's LeaderLuncheon 2010 today. Five incredible women were honored for raising our community to new heights and growing our next generation of leaders. The honorees were: Violeta Arnobit, CEO, Ace Medical, Inc.; Faye Kennedy, Long-time Civil Rights Advocate; Nanci Kreidman, CEO, Domestic Violence Action Center; Nola Nahulu, Executive & Artistic Director, Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus; and Leslie Wilcox, CEO, PBS Hawaii.

Click here to learn more about each of the honorees. And click here to see videos about each of the honorees, produced for YWCA in partnership with Hawaii News Now.

06-17-2010 - My word is “trust”

by Josh Levinson, Field Organizer

What’s your word?

Is it education? Is it work? Or energy? How about healthcare...housing...food?

With a little more than 90 days until the primary election on September 18, now is the time to decide what you believe is the most important issue in this election--not according to the candidates, not according to the media--according to you.

Is your word family? Is it aloha? Is it equality?

I started working on Neil’s campaign because, for me, the word is trust. My feeling is that each of our problems is pressing and important. I want to be confident that the person I vote for to be Hawaii’s next Governor will work tirelessly on behalf of the public interest--not just my problem, or yours, but all of the wide and varied challenges facing Hawaii.

Neil is the only one candidate I can trust with that responsibility.

Whatever issue you care about--be it literacy, poverty, keiki, or kupuna--you have to decide who you trust. Will that person govern based on personal ambition and be beholden to powerful special interests? Or is that person going to be a leader for all of us, no matter where we live, what we look like, and what matters to us most.

My word is trust.  And Neil Abercrombie is my candidate.

06-15-2010 - Statement from Neil Abercrombie on Mayor Hannemann’s Fundraiser in Pittsburgh

On June 10, Ron Mizutani from KHON2 reported a story about questions that had surfaced about the Honolulu Mayor's large campaign fundraiser in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hosted by a rail consultant.

Later, in a follow-up story, KHON2 reported that Mayor Hannemann was going to return all money taken from the $500 to $5000 per person event.

Neil Abercrombie released the following statement today on Mayor Hannemann’s June 9 fundraiser hosted by a rail transit consultant:
    “The people of Hawaii are tired of politics-as-usual. Mayor Hannemann’s fundraiser in Pittsburgh is typical of the politics that will be rejected this September by the voters. It was not a meet and greet session. It was a fundraiser organized and run by a rail transit consultant. But why would money collected be returned if it were a legitimate event as the mayor claimed?

    “The people deserve answers to many questions including: Was the trip to D.C. necessary or was it designed just to get to Pittsburgh while piggybacking on official city business? Why was there no proper notice to the Campaign Spending Commission? Why was the wrong date listed in the fundraiser’s filing? Why did an official city release say the mayor was meeting in D.C. when he was actually campaigning in Pittsburgh?

    “Having talked to people across Hawaii for over a year, I can tell you that this fundraising scheme is exactly the kind of politics they want to change. People want leadership that puts the public interest first.”

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