Case wins 2nd Congressional District special election

Honolulu Star Bulletin ^ | 1/5/03

[Mensch]

Former state Rep. Ed Case defeated fellow Democrat Matt Matsunaga in a winner-take-all special election to fill the two-year term of the late U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink.

Case received 33,002 votes, or 43 percent of the vote, to 23,050 votes for former Sen. Matsunaga for the 2nd Congressional District seat. Sen. Colleen Hanabusa, also a Democrat, came in third with 6,046 votes.

Republican state Rep. Barbara Marumoto came in fourth with 4,497 votes.

Mink died Sept. 28, just after winning the primary on Sept. 21. Mink posthumously won re-election on Nov. 5.

Another special election, held Nov. 30, was to fill the five weeks remaining in her current term. That election, won by Democrat Ed Case, attracted a turnout of only about 13 percent of the 347,922 voters in the district, which covers Leeward, Windward and North Shore Oahu and the neighbor islands.

This election drew 76,328 voters, about 22 percent of the distgrict's 348,342 registered voters.

Here are the unofficial results:

CASE, Ed (D) 33,002, 43.2%

MATSUNAGA, Matt (D) 23,050, 30.2%

HANABUSA, Colleen (D) 6,046, 7.9%

MARUMOTO, Barbara C. (R) 4,497, 5.9%

McDERMOTT, Bob (R) 4,298, 5.6%

HALFORD, Chris (R) 728, 1.0%

KALOI, Kimo (R) 642, 0.8%

CARROLL, John (Mahina) (R) 521, 0.7%

FASI, Frank F. (R) 483, 0.6%

McNETT, Mark (N) 449, 0.6%

RATH, Jim (R) 414, 0.5%

HAAKE, Richard H. (R) 212, 0.3%

SECRETARIO, Nelson J. (R) 208, 0.3%

ANDERSON, Whitney T. (R) 201, 0.3%

KEAULANA-DYBALL, Moana (N) 91, 0.1%

NIKHILANANDA, Nick (G) 75, 0.1%

COLE, Brian G. (D) 69, 0.1%

KAAPU, Kekoa D. (D) 68, 0.1%

MALLAN, Jeff (L) 58, 0.1%

MATAAFA, Sophie (N) 52 0.1%

FAIRHURST, Doug (R) 38, 0.0%

GAGNE, Mike (D) 35, 0.0%

GOLOJUCH, Carolyn Mart (R) 29, 0.0%

GOODWIN, G. (Iimz) (G) 27, 0.0%

PAYNE, Richard (Rich) (R) 25, 0.0%

WEATHERWAX, Clarence H (R) 25, 0.0%

ANAND, Kabba (N) 24, 0.0%

VIERRA, Dan (N) 22, 0.0%

SABEY, John L. (R) 20, 0.0%

ROCCO, Pat (D) 19, 0.0%

RUSSELL, Bill (N) 18, 0.0%

SPARKS, Steve (N) 17, 0.0%

WONG, Solomon (N) 16, 0.0%REYES, Art P. (D) 15, 0.0%

BRITOS, Paul (D) 13, 0.0%

HARLAN, S.J. (N) 11, 0.0%

COLLINS, Charles (D) 10, 0.0%

RANDALL, John (Jack) (N) 9, 0.0%

TATAII, Steve (D) 9, 0.0%

RETHMAN, Mike (R) 8, 0.0%

TURNER, Marshall (N) 8, 0.0%

JENSEN, Herbert L. (D) 6 0.0%

GANO, Alan R. (N) 3, 0.0%

ROWLAND, Bartle Lee (N) 3, 0.0%

[Principled]

Dang. I didn't get my paperwork in on time or I'd have been in that list too.

[friendly]

A Magnificent Democrat Victory for Rep. Mink!!

Fraudulent Dead Voters elect a Fraudulent Dead Democrat!!

[OldFriend]

Mink, the one candidate slick willie campaigned for who won her seat.

[GeneD]

AP reports that the congressman-elect from Hawaii is a cousin of Steve Case, the head of AOL Time Warner!

AOL has a seat in Congress! Pffh-hh-hh!!

[holyscroller]

What a pathetically low turnout! I still think she was long dead well before the first election deadline and they could have avoided all this effort and expense.

[Timesink]

God, what an embarrassment, to be on the ballot and only get THREE votes.

[Darksheare]

You feel somewhat sorry for the guys that got only 3 votes....

[FreePaul]

You can be sure that AOL has bought/rented a lot of seats in congress. This one they probably got cheap.

[qam1]

What's party does the (N) stand for?

[fieldmarshaldj]

The GOP blew it big time in this race, not bothering to clear the field for one candidate. Shocking that State Rep. Barbara Marumoto came in ahead of Bob McDermott, or that no GOPer managed to crack 10% of the vote. Shameful. The GOP should be running Asian/Pacific Islanders for the House seats, especially since for the first time since pre-statehood, 2 Haoles occupy both House seats.

[tubebender]

I don't see your name here, aren't Native Americans living in Hawaii eligible ?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Non-partisan. After reviewing candidate info, most of those were leftist kooks who made Patsy Mink look like Jesse Helms.

[recalcitrant]

letsee... wife, mom, dad, and two kids, yourself... er huh... that makes six... NOT a good sign. Not at all.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

God, what an embarrassment, to be on the ballot and only get THREE votes.

Right. The minimum vote attainable should be four. The candidate. His wife. His dog. His mistress. Wonder who welshed?

[KQQL]

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[Torie]

It always shocks me what a Japanese American loses a political race in Hawaii to one who isn't. :)

[Torie]

I could say what I think of McDermott, but I think I annoyed you enough last year, and I trying to turn over a new leaf, at least for a week of two.

[KQQL]

This election period even the RAT GOV Nominee lost ..and she was Japanese American.....

I guess the Non-Japanese Asian American Hawaians...aren't voting for them

[fieldmarshaldj]

What's your beef with McDermott ? He struck me as a class act for staying out of that absurd November special in favor of the widower, John Mink. That being said, we should be running non-Haoles for HA Congressional seats. Quentin Kawananakoa ought be sitting in Abercrombie's seat. Barbara Marumoto needs to be the GOP nominee next time around, especially if a brutal Democrat primary breaks out next year between Case and Matsunaga. She can ride a wave into office like Pat Saiki did in 1990. This seat apparently is now more GOP than the 1st was then.