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Politics, Commentary Tuesday
28Aug
Higa gears up campaign blog
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 07:02PM I didn’t go to Councilman Stacy Higa’s free prime rib mayoral campaign kickoff last week and I’ve gotten wildly different accounts of the attendance.
One person I talked to heard it was like a ghost town inside Ken Fujiyama’s Naniloa Volcanoes Resort where the event was held. Another said it was packed with people scarfing up the beef on Higa’s tab. But the latter was a partisan account, and the former wasn’t there, so I really don’t have much to go on. Maybe somebody reading this went and could comment.
What I found interesting was the URL noted on the Higa banner hanging on the Naniloa golf course fence near the third green facing Wailoa boat harbor: www.stacyhiga.com.
Try it out. Click on the blog link and there’s a note saying, "Please check back soon to read Stacy's Blog!" There’s video promised, too, but be careful navigating around the new Web site. My computer locked up a couple of times today especially on the broken video links. But it’s all new and perhaps understandable that it may be a bit buggy.
Which would be like the campaign, somebody said. How cheeky.
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Reader Comments (6)
I was there. Maybe 100, ( 150 max ) were there. I had to wait like 20 minutes in line with 4 chef's cutting it up, it gives you an idea on how many people that would be.
Don't know if I'll vote for Mr. Higa, but there's still time to make up my mind & with so few qualified opponents facing him ..... Might be wise to back a sure thing like Mr. Higa early in the race, then a second place opponent like ?????
Who else is there ?
Kim
1] He wants to develop more roads in Kona, Waimea, and Puna. [now there’s an earth shaker]
2] He would like to send solid waste to the mainland for a period of 7 to 10 years so as to have time to think about it. [come on 7 to 10 years to make an intelligent decision, sounds like he is washing his hands of this one]
3] When it came to the stand on Big Box I didn’t see any statement [we will just have to wait on that one]
I will admit that I did not tune in on his video’s because I only have dial-up and it would take me all day. Well now at least we have a player out there and if he fills up his blog with some real answers to some real questions we may be getting somewhere.
The Lack
It really was my intent to get off my lazy okole for a free prime rib ... yummm! Bugga was fat (not Stacy, the steer) from being fed good ole Midwest grain. That grain, like the beast itself, was from Iowa or Nebraska or some such. That very succulent meat would have been expensive for sure. Never mind the food miles (not really, please do mind them). What with ethanol plants competing with feedlots for corn, corn prices are as high as an elephant's eye.
But, of course, that 40+ mile roundtrip between Puna and Hilo on shit-for-roads was dissuasive enough that I stayed home and grilled up a Hawaii-Island-Grass-Fed-Beef-no-antibiotics-or-hormone burger patty, which I bought, frozen, at KTA on our once-a-week-at-the-most trip to Hilo (BTW: Malama Market in Pahoa also has a very nice line of products under this local label). The wife only had salad and I had one too, with Hamakua Springs lettuce and tomatoes under a dressing of macadamia oil from Oils of Aloha and juice from a lime out of our garden. Of course a thick slice of Maui onion topped the burger on whole wheat from O'Keefe's. For beer, I chose Mehana Red Ale (and, as usual, the wife drank half of it so we drank some more. Couldn't do that and drive back from Hilo.).
How much shelf space at Wal Mart is given over to the healthy and tasty local products mentioned above?
How about canned Spam?
Should any candidate for any office want to cook up some healthy local grinz, I'd definitely like to hear about it and will help organize it. Whether I vote for that person or not will remain to be determined.
Oh yeah, absolutely not any of that throw-away plastic cutlery and plates that go into the landfill; and, surely if one thousand people are in attendance, the opportunities for carpooling must be very good!