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Republican Wins in Blue Hawaii
newyorktimes ^ | May 23, 2010, 1:13 am | SARAH WHEATON

Posted on 05/23/2010 4:17:38 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo

A Republican candidate has prevailed over a crowded special election to represent President Obama’s Hawaiian birthplace in the House of Representatives. The victory of Charles Djou, a Honolulu city councilman, was not a surprise, but it served to bolster his party as it seeks to chip away at the Democratic majority.

The special election was called after Representative Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat, announced last year that he would resign before completing his 10th term in order to focus on his candidacy for governor.

Mr. Djou beat out 13 other candidates with 39.5 percent of the vote in Hawaii’s First Congressional District, which encompasses the Honolulu metropolitan area and gave Mr. Obama 70 percent of its vote in 2008.

“Charles’s victory is evidence his conservative message of lowering the tax burden, job creation and government accountability knows no party lines,” said Michael Steele, the Republican Party chairman, in a statement.

But Democrats hoped to restore the seat in the November general election. If he runs for a full term, Mr. Djou could face either Colleen Hanabusa, the State Senate president, or former Representative Ed Case, who previously

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: djou; election; gop; gopcomeback; goppickups; hawaii; hi2010

1 posted on 05/23/2010 4:17:39 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
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To: Bad~Rodeo
Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii:

Night and you
And, Blue Hawaii
The night is heavenly
And, Djou are heaven to me....

2 posted on 05/23/2010 4:25:44 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Bad~Rodeo; MestaMachine; hennie pennie; mojitojoe
"President Obama’s Hawaiian birthplace in the House of Representatives....">>>>>>>>>>>

Nice try but no cigar for the New York SLIMES!

TANK SLIMES, TANK. I will dance at your bankruptcy hearing!

NO ONE knows where Obama was in fact born, Obama has made sure of that.

LIES, LIES, LIES

3 posted on 05/23/2010 4:29:15 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is a fascist... ...He meets everydiagnostic of history)
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To: Bad~Rodeo
The RATS certainly won't let *that* happen again in November.
4 posted on 05/23/2010 4:40:09 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: Candor7

Good catch...

Instead of saying Hawaiian “home-state” like they do with every other politician..... the media made sure to put Hawaiian “Birthplace”.


5 posted on 05/23/2010 4:44:18 AM PDT by jerry557
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To: Gay State Conservative; Bad~Rodeo
I don’t give Djou much chance of holding on to his seat in November. The top two Dims together got 58% of the vote.

Five months isn’t enough time to show the voting public you deserve a full term when they are dedicated Dims.

The good thing about it though is that the DNC will dump a bunch of money in to Hawaii to reclaim the seat. It leaves them less money to spend in districts where we really have a chance of winning.

6 posted on 05/23/2010 4:46:14 AM PDT by Pontiac
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To: Bad~Rodeo

when Charles comes to DC from Honolou naybe he can bring the disputed alleged birth certificate that is so elusive to the American People. Lets exhume Grandmother Dunham, maybe it was buried with her. By the way Obozo who is your daddy? Answer the question my mother gave birth to me in which hospital in kenya and my grandmaother forged the signatures in Hawaii to grant me some type of citizenship. I Obozo do solmenly swear that I was born in Kenya, and that I am not a natural citizen and I will from this day forward renounce my throne from the Obozo regime. Thanks Charlie for bringing us this unexpected windfall. In America we can finally get rid of of Obozo the Clown


7 posted on 05/23/2010 4:56:07 AM PDT by hondact200 ( Lincoln Freed the Enslaved. Obama Enslaves the Free. Obama is Americas Greatest Threat)
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To: All


Hey, RATS - Charles is going to DC and YOU AREN'T!
8 posted on 05/23/2010 4:57:19 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Bad~Rodeo
“...Obama’s Hawaiian birthplace.”

Maybe. Maybe not.

9 posted on 05/23/2010 5:04:03 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Candor7
"...NO ONE knows where Obama was in fact born..."

His grandma (not the typical white one, the other one). She says 0 was born in Kenya and that she was there.

That's good enough for me.

10 posted on 05/23/2010 5:07:38 AM PDT by skimbell (A vote for a democrat is a vote against America.)
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To: Bad~Rodeo

so, only the people of PA 12 and NY 23 are stupid enough...


11 posted on 05/23/2010 5:08:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Bad~Rodeo
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12 posted on 05/23/2010 5:08:57 AM PDT by mkjessup (*** It's SUNDAY Lord, how 'bout a big ol' Jesus-sized LIGHTNING bolt aimed at 0bama's AZZ?!? ***)
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To: skimbell
Yes, well, the Slimes seems to be very selectivem but the poinnt is the Obama is doing all he can to obscure the fact of his birth location, and the SLines doesn;t chose top , "knonw about it."

New York Slimes at its "best".

You can't pick up a copy without ropes of mucus sliming your hands.

13 posted on 05/23/2010 5:43:43 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is a fascist... ...He meets everydiagnostic of history)
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To: Bad~Rodeo
Geeze, the darn rats took over and infiltrated the most beautiful places in this country. Maybe the tides are changing.
14 posted on 05/23/2010 5:54:16 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-3-10!)
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To: Bad~Rodeo
"Republican Wins in Blue Hawaii: A Republican candidate has prevailed over a crowded special election to represent President Obama’s Hawaiian birthplace."

Obama? Born in Hawaii? I wonder who his doctor was?

15 posted on 05/23/2010 6:03:29 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Bad~Rodeo

Blue is really Red (Leftist Red) and Red is Blue. It changed in the 2000 presidential election.


16 posted on 05/23/2010 6:10:29 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: mkjessup

Shame on you. I just lost my lunch. (He he he)


17 posted on 05/23/2010 12:20:13 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: BigEdLB

First Lady Sasquatch would kill for thighs like that, lol


18 posted on 05/23/2010 12:47:18 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
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