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Anti-Trump Republican eyes party switch in deep-blue Hawaii
Associated Press ^ | Feb 1, 2017 8:48 PM EST | Cathy Bussewitz

Posted on 02/01/2017 7:26:51 PM PST by Olog-hai

A Republican lawmaker in deep-blue Hawaii is considering switching parties to become a Democrat after she was pressured to give up her leadership role for criticizing President Donald Trump.

Rep. Beth Fukumoto said Republican Party members asked her to resign as Minority Floor Leader after she spoke at the Women’s March in Hawaii. In her speech she called Trump a bully and said his remarks were racist and sexist and had no place in the Republican Party. […]

In Hawaii, there are only six Republican representatives in the House — including Fukumoto — and the state Senate is all Democratic after the lone Republican was voted out of office this year.

The House approved a resolution removing Fukumoto from leadership and naming Rep. Andria Tupola as the new minority leader on a voice vote Wednesday. …

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 115th; antitrump; bluestates; democrats; fukumoto; rino; trump45; womensmarch
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AP scrambling for headlines and found a RINO who went to the Women’s March and not the March for Life. Sayonara, baka.
1 posted on 02/01/2017 7:26:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Let the name puns begin.


2 posted on 02/01/2017 7:29:08 PM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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To: Proyecto Anonimo

Fuku moto


3 posted on 02/01/2017 7:30:21 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Proyecto Anonimo

Anybody in the GOP got stones?


4 posted on 02/01/2017 7:30:45 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Imagine that)
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To: Olog-hai

Well Beth Fuku you too. One more RINO exposed.


5 posted on 02/01/2017 7:30:48 PM PST by GunHoardingCapitalist (Join me in the world of next Tuesday!)
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To: Olog-hai

The Left is desperate for anything positive (from their point of view) to trumpet loudly. As if this is gonna draw people to them. Ha!


6 posted on 02/01/2017 7:30:48 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: Olog-hai

This idiot woman absolutely sounds like she was going by the heavily biased and false talking points promulgated by the skillful manipulators driving the Womens March, which included CAIR and therefore HAMAS. She obviously did not do her due diligence to research whether, in fact, Trump actually said anything even remotely like that which is attributed to him. What kind of a legislator is she then? A mighty careless one. Go ahead, let the RATs have one of such feeble quality as her. I only feel sorry for her constituents, but only a little sorry, because they did not do THEIR due diligence before electing her.


7 posted on 02/01/2017 7:31:23 PM PST by EinNYC
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Adios, Rep Fukumofo.
8 posted on 02/01/2017 7:32:01 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: EinNYC

She may be a Republican but after reading the rhetoric she was spewing, I would venture to say she has always voted with the Dems.


9 posted on 02/01/2017 7:33:28 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Olog-hai

The Democrat Party is aiding a Terrorist group out of Mexico. They are operating in Texas and New MEXICO AT the present. THE Democrats are trying to slow Trump down so that this group won’t get exposed. A Number of these terrorist are running these groups that are demonstrating across America. THEY ARE JUST laying low until they are ready to attack their targets. Watch and see what I tell you. THEY HAVE Plenty of money that has been funneled from our government.


10 posted on 02/01/2017 7:33:47 PM PST by Herman Ball
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To: Olog-hai

Wait — if this happens the GOP may never again get electoral college votes from Hawaii!!!!!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 02/01/2017 7:34:04 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Olog-hai

Goodbye, Moto


12 posted on 02/01/2017 7:34:26 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Maudeen

Fu ku, moto.


13 posted on 02/01/2017 7:35:02 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Olog-hai

“In Hawaii, there are only six Republican representatives in the House”

I’m surprised it’s there is even 6.


14 posted on 02/01/2017 7:38:08 PM PST by Angels27
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To: Proyecto Anonimo

Well, bye


15 posted on 02/01/2017 7:39:06 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the 4Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s see. We are now finding out that the Muslims ran the “women’s vagina march” in D.C. and it also appears that the Muslims have taken over the so called ACLU. It looks like the freaks on the left have gone from worshipping sexual deviants to worshipping ISIS and Sharia. This is what happens when people don’t have to work to survive so they don’t have jobs. Their miserable little lives are boring so they join the nearest freak show. It’s time to cut off all welfare. If they want to eat, they can trade their “smart” phone in for an alarm clock.


16 posted on 02/01/2017 7:39:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Olog-hai

The whole state is one big welfare system operating on tourism dollars.


17 posted on 02/01/2017 7:40:13 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Olog-hai

I really wouldn’t call getting fired as “eyeing” going over to the Dark Side.


18 posted on 02/01/2017 7:42:46 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Not hard for Muslims to take over a communist-started organization, especially when they are merely two types of socialists working together against their perceived common enemy.


19 posted on 02/01/2017 7:43:09 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe Hawaii will secede and then they can install 0bama as Queen.


20 posted on 02/01/2017 7:45:22 PM PST by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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