Hawaii GOP internal fight over Akaka bill
This HR article
by Eric Ryan and blog
post by Mel tell of a schism in the Hawaii GOP over the Akaka bill.
The district-elected platform committee attempted to change the platform from
supporting to opposing the Akaka Bill, along with numerous other unrelated
changes, but instead Lingle's operatives stacked the committee at the last
minute and shut it down, simply re-adopting the 2006 platform and rejecting all
of the other proposed changes just to keep the anti-Akaka bill plank from being
adopted. The GOP grassroots aren't happy with Lingle or their party at the
moment, to put it mildly. (The blog post has an audio file of the
meeting.) Update 4/21: Doug at
Poinography has more on this "entertaining (and public!)" internal dispute, with
links to several posts/articles from different participants and points of view.
But it all started with the proposed platform change on the Akaka
bill.
Posted: Thu - April 17, 2008 at 10:37 AM