Sunday, October 30, 2016

Election Guide.


  • National.
    • President: Clinton.
    • House District 1: Hanabusa.
    • Senate: Schatz.
  • State.
    • OHA Hawaii Resident Trustee: Lindsey.
    • OHA At-Large Trustee: Akina.
    • Amendment 1 Relating to Jury Trials: Yes.
    • Amendment 2 Relating to Excess Revenues: Yes.
    • House District 24: Belatti.
    • Senate District 11: Taniguchi.
  • City.
    • HNL Council District 5: Case.
    • HNL Mayor: Caldwell.
    • HNL Prosecuting Attorney: Yaqoob.  Because of this.
  • OMG WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHARTER AMENDMENTS?
    • 1 Relating to the Police Commission: Yes.
    • 2 Relating to the Ethics Commission: Yes.
    • 3 Relating to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney: Yes.
    • 4 Relating to all about transportation: Yes.
    • 5 Relating to Affordable Housing Fund: Yes.
    • 6 Relating to why there are no long term infrastructure plans: Yes.
    • 7 Relating to forming an Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency: Yes, although Office of Sustainability, Climate Change, and Resiliency would be OSCCR, which would be a better name.
    • 8 Relating to why there isn't a Department of Land Management responsible for city lands: Yes.
    • 9 Relating to the funding of the Zoo: Yes.
    • 9b Relating to how I'm only half way done: Christ.
    • 10 Relating to I don't know, but it looks like they sometimes want to do a thing, but there isn't a dedicated fund source for the thing, which stops the thing being done.  This is silly, so this allows everybody to just declare that they like the thing, and that they can get money for it without making it a "whole big deal."  Yes.
    • 11 Relating to the Clean Water Natural Lands Fund: Yes.
    • 12 Relating to whether boards and commissions should be reviewed for shutdown: Yes.
    • 13 Relating to Grants and who can give out the money: No?  I think it's trying to make city-funded grants handled through a single process, but I don't quite understand where the problem this solves is.
    • 14 Relating to special elections: Yes.
    • 15 Relating to term limits for elected city positions: Yes.  This is actually a weakening from two terms to three, but applies it to the prosecutor as well.
    • 16 Relating to the Department of Design and Construction: Yes.
    • 17 Relating to getting the Mayor some damn help, so he doesn't have to sign every freaking thing the city needs signed: Yes.
    • 18 Relating to the Fire Commission being made up to date: Yes.
    • 19 Relating to the requirement that the City Council Reapportionment Commission have no more than 5/9 members from one party be repealed: Yes.  Technically, this invites gerrymandering of city council seats, but I'm not sure Oahu can be gerrymandered in any major way.
    • 20 Relating to updating the Charter so that it doesn't break the law any more, and fixes little things that got messed up the first time: Yes.

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