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James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer
and amongst other things lived in a tent outdoors for 7 years.
Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i
with his best friend and spiritual adviser Ivanka-Obama Da Dog!
consulting with Ivanka Obama Da Dog |
2018 elections- Let's make Kauai Great again
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| Mayor Carvalho with unidentified fan! ;-) |
Kaua'i will elect a new Mayor and at least 3 new County council members with Mel Rapozo and Derek Kawakami relinquishing their Council seats to run for Mayor , while JoAnn Yukimura's term limit's expire.
There is much speculation as to whom might run for Council, maybe another run for chief
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| County Council chairman Mel Rapozo is running in a cliffhanger race for Kauai Mayor against Derek Kawakami. |
I consider myself somewhat of a local political nerd and this is what I would like to see happen and change
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| Former State representative and current Kaua'i councilman Derek Kawakami one of the state's most popular politicians is running for the position of Kaua'i Mayor in what is said to be the most exciting Mayor's race ever, unless something changes? |
Mr. Kawakami running for Governor would secure the Mayor's race between the two Rapozo's, Mel Rapozo vs. Lenny Rapozo, although I believe that race would be a landslide in favor of Mel Rapozo.
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| Lenny Rapozo Director of parks and recreation announces his bid to run for Kaua'i mayor |
I highly recommend Mr. Lenny Rapozo change his game plan and run for County council, an almost slam dunk for the Director of parks and recreation. This would leave County chair, Mel Rapozo unopposed against an announced republican candidate yet to announce their candidacy. (Maybe me?) Had you worried, not really, nobody can win against Mel!
Everyone who reads the Garden Island forum page and especially all those being critical in the comments section now's your time to shine. There's never been a better time to run for politics, anything is possible, look what happened last presidential election! Now's the time to do something! If not now when? If not you, who?
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| We are hoping our friend Norma "Doctor" Sparks a first time contender in the 2016 County council race decides to take a shot at it again. We feel her chances are that much greater this time around, who knows? |
Candidates filing for the 2018 election runs from February 1, 2018 through June 5, 2018. The candidate filing process allows qualified individuals to have their names appear on the ballot. A nomination paper must be signed by a minimum number of 15 registered voters for both Council member and Mayor of properly registered voters.It is recommended you get 20 or more signatures because some people will say they are registered and are not.
The age requirements for County council are as follows; According to the County charter, a person must be a citizen of the United States and must have been a duly qualified elector of the county for at least two years immediately preceding such person’s election or appointment." (Which means voting age is 18, so if you are registered to vote at 18 years and stay a county and US citizen for two more years,you are eligible to run for county council at age 20.)
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| The current 2016-2018 Kauai county council; Mason Chock, Arthur Brun, Chair-Mel Rapozo, JoAnn Yukimura, Ross Kagawa, Derek Kawakami and Arryl Kanashiro |
Any citizen of the United States not less than thirty
years of age who has been a duly qualified resident elector of the county for at least three years immediately prior to the citizen’s election shall be eligible for election to the office of mayor.
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| Many are expecting former councilman Kipu Kai Kuulii to run again for county council, stay tuned? There's never been a better time for newcomers to get involved! |
You must live and be properly registered to vote in the district from which you seek office.
The filing fee for councilmember is $25.00 and $50.00 for Mayor.
The deadline to file a nomination paper is June 5, 2018, 4:30 pm.
For further Questions contact the office of elections at toll free 1-800-442-VOTE (8683) or email at; www.elections@hawaii.gov
The county charter can be read at;
http://www.kauai.gov/Portals/0/Boards_Commissions/Charter/Kauai%20Charter%20Codified%202016%20(Final).pdf?ver=2016-12-30-090727-520
Good luck. You can make a difference, that's right you, quit making all those hateful comments in the Garden island news online edition comments section and Facebook and do something, there's never been a better time! Let's Make Kaua'i great again and then some!
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| Councilman Arthur Brun James "Kimo" Rosen and Hawaii's future Lt. Governor Bernard Carvalho Jr. |
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| Are we blessed to live in Kaua'i or what? |
4 comments:
thinking a County Council seat may be close... dunno! Not a HUGE fan for ANY of the candidates.. my OVERALL OPINION... if there are "DARK SHADOWS/CLOUDS" hanging over ANY of the candidates heads it puts a HUGE HUGE QUESTION MARK over their OVERALL CREDIBILITY & ETHICS... "what we "allow" will continue"....
Thank you for your well thought out suggestions about governor and council members. I REALLY support Norma as she has incredible qualifications and would be breath of fresh air on that council. I also like Kipukai as I believe he did a great job on the council before and we need people like him. Hooser has always been a favorite of mine and new face, Matt could really shake the council up with his ideas.
You may be right that Derek could make it for governor but I have serious doubts about his being ready for that position.
And, for me, Mel would be the best candidate for Mayor and I would support him.
Unless we change our whole MO for running this Kauai government nothing is going to change. The stagnant system of 40 or more years of doing nothing creating our total messes (traffic, roads repairs, alternate routes, wider roads, low income and rental properties, solid waste, infrastructure repairs, permitting more buildout before making sure infrastructure is First put in place before building begins, AND THE STAGGERING VISITOR PROBLEM as outlined in todays GI.
Hopefully we can get at least 4 people on that council who will have guts enough to go after these problems with actions and not just more talk. AND a Mayor who will do the same and act as a team with the council and not as a detractor.
Interesting year ahead.
Your pal,
Glenn
Glenn, wish you would run for council. Your at every meeting , why not get paid for it? I'd vote for you and know many others would too!
Thanks for your vote of confidence for my being a council member, Kimo.
I am 87 now and even if I were 30 years younger I would not want to be on that table with those 6 other members.
As a citizen I can say what I want and send letters expressing my views with no need to worry about getting re=elected or being political. My views and opinions are like those of my friends, Walter Lewis and Ray Chuan just to make Kauai a better place for all of us.
Like I said, thanks for your support, I really appreciate it. Just try and support our views like not wanting an excise tax---people don't want it!! We take in about $17 million a year from taxes that are supposed to be paving our roads but as our auditor said, it is being co mingled with other needs and only about $1.2 is going to repaving the worst roads in Hawaii. Take care of that and so much other waste and there would be enough money to cut taxes, not raise them.
Your pal,
Glenn
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