I agree but I’d replace “cut a deal” with “impose a deal”. And by “deal” I mean the bases remain US sovereign territory like the UK bases on Cyprus and they get no say in the matter and nothing in return.
Alas this isn’t happening anytime soon so we have to try and win this seat.
To think it was a tropical GOP paradise until 1954. Damn unions.
Interesting to note that Inouye was a key player in that 1954 revolution that displaced the GOP majority in Hawaiian government. That’s when he was first elected to the Territorial House and he was then immediately made Majority Leader. There has never been a GOP majority since, and he served continuously in office for 58 years (Terr. House, 1954-58; Terr. Sen., 1958-59; U.S. House, 1959-63; U.S. Senate, 1963-2012).