Rep. Tulsi Gabbard wins party nod for House seat

[oberliner]

Last edited Sun Aug 12, 2018, 07:05 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: Associated Press (via West Hawaii Today)

U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard won the Democratic nomination for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District.

Gabbard defeated Sherry Alu Campagna on Saturday to be her party’s candidate to represent rural Oahu and the neighbor islands in Congress.

Campagna had criticized Gabbard for refusing to debate her. Campagna noted Gabbard had argued in the past that candidates should participate in debates to present their positions and be held accountable for their opinions.

Gabbard was first elected to the U.S. House in 2012. She is one of the first female combat veterans to serve in Congress. She deployed to Iraq and Kuwait with the Hawaii National Guard.

Read more: http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2018/08/11/hawaii-news/rep-tulsi-gabbard-wins-party-nod-for-house-seat/

[David__77]

1. Wonderful news!

A DEMOCRATIC victory!

[mahina]

8. Not really.

[msongs]

3. twitter is not a news source nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Read the rules about Original Posts to the Late Breaking News forum.

Here in your first post to DU, you are attempting a scatalogical insult against another DU member. You followed this up with another in another thread. Is this a taste of what we should expect from you in the future?

Welcome to DU, I think.

[oberliner]

6. Updated with the AP story

Final Results:

83.6% Tulsi Gabbard* 91,086
12.2% Sherry Alu Campagna 13,315
4.1% Anthony Austin 4,496

That's a pretty decisive victory for Gabbard.

[Locrian]

7. seems a little more than a "nod" - n/t

[mahina]

9. Her opponent got in late, appeared to be a lost cause, and this was her first run.

Hindsight being 20-20 and all, she could have been more effective. I had to make a choice between the two and just left that part of the ballot blank.

Tulsi is running for President and at least appears to lack the grounding and core local Democratic principles that identified our towering historic figures such as Patsy Mink, Sparky Matsunaga and Senator Akaka.

She is much more of a pragmatist, saying she’s willing to work with Donald Trump and Assad. I don’t know her core beliefs about how the government should represent people, and I’ve known her since the 06 Akaka campaign.

In a community where a Republican would have almost no chance to win, we now have one and will have two people in the House who are at least sometimes go-along-to-get-alongers. (Ed Case was once the sole Dem to vote to defund PBS and NPR He also often said when running for Patsy Mink’s seat after she died that he would have voted for the Iraq War Resolution, which none of our other electeds supported. That was for the CD2 seat, which the OP is talking about now. )

But we have two outstanding Senators who make us very proud!