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Neil Abercrombie ignores Daniel Inouye’s dying wish, picks Brian Schatz for Hawaii Senate.
Just as a thought experiment: imagine what would happen if the following scenario played out…
- A minority Republican Senator passes away.
- Choosing a successor is the responsibility of his state’s (white) (Republican) governor.
- The late Senator in question had formally made a request to the governor that a particular qualified individual (who also happens to be a minority) succeed him.
- The governor then proceeds to ignore the dying wish of the late Senator, and instead chooses his (white) Lt. Governor.
The question before the board is, Just how big would the resulting media firestorm be, anyway? Large enough to detect from orbit?
Yes, probably. However, in this case all the players are Democrats: the state is Hawaii, the Governor is Neil Abercrombie (best-known for fumble-fingeringly extending birther fantasies for an extra two weeks or so), the Lt. Governor (and new Senator) is Brian Schatz (I never heard of him, either), the late Senator is Medal of Honor winner Daniel Inouye, and the slapped-in-the-face candidate that Inouye favored was Rep. Colleen Hanabusa. Basically, what happened was that Hawaii pretty much requires that since Inouye was a Democrat, any successor would be chosen from among a list of three people presented to Abercrombie by the Hawaii Democratic party*. Abercrombie and Inouye apparently had… issues with each other, given that the latter tried to torpedo the former when it came to the 2010 gubernatorial election; I also suspect that there was lingering bad blood over the 2010 special election for HI-01, which was an entertaining prelude to the general shellacking that was the 2010 Congressional midterms.
Anonymous
December 27th, 2012
I think the Governor Schatz all over Inouye…
srdem65
December 27th, 2012
Sorry, I’m on the Governor’s side; he picked someone that all of Hawaii has already voted into office. The late Senator’s seat was not his to assign, no matter how long he sat in it.
vangrungy
December 27th, 2012
Schatz
look him up. He’s a committed anti-American marxist.
hanoverfist
December 27th, 2012
The Party of the Rich White Male.
They probably hated having a dark skinned war hero
in their midst.
serfer62
December 27th, 2012
Its not Annoyues choice to continue the Japanese session into House/Senate.
As to anti-American what did you expect!?…the’re all Kommiecrats.
grayscape
December 27th, 2012
The Democrat party is returning to its roots as a party of old white men.
Hawaiian
December 27th, 2012
I wasn’t sure why Abercommie didn’t appoint Hanabusa either, she’s certainly corrupt enough. Then I remembered Schatz was DPH chair back when Barry was having trouble with certification:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-report-on-obamas-democratic-party.html
This one was likely a “mahalo” appointment for cleaning up that mess back in ’08.
MNHawk
December 27th, 2012
Does it really matter which leftist moron become Harry Reid’s new little bitch?