-By Warner Todd Huston
Incumbent Democrat Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii’s first district is expected to resign his seat in Congress in order to make a run at Hawaii’s gubernatorial seat. That leaves his House seat open and it is looking as if the Republicans have a good chance to win it with the candidacy of Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou.
A special election is now set for May 22 to fill Abercrombie’s seat.
If Charles Djou can win this seat it will be one more slight to Democrats because Hawaii’s District One is Barack Obama’s old hometown on the Islands.
Djou has signed the taxpayer protection pledge sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform and has been listed as one of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Young Guns contender candidates for 2010.
Djou is a social moderate and is pro-choice in the heavily pro-choice Hawaii first district. While he isn’t the conservative of our dreams, he does have a chance to take this special election, ala Scott Brown (R, Mass). One reason is because he is opposed by two Democrats vying for the same seat leaving Djou able to muster all the GOP votes while his opponents spilt their party’s (if both stay in all the way until May, that is).
The DailyCaller describes Djou’s stance on the issues as such:
Djou described himself as a strong fiscal conservative who has never voted for a tax increase during his time on the city council and as a member of Hawaii’s State House.
On national issues, he opposes the healthcare bills currently before Congress and expressed support for alternate measures including tort reform and medical savings accounts. Djou also touted his efforts to introduce curbside recycling in Honolulu and called himself a responsible steward of Hawaii’s environment, which is critical to the state’s tourism industry. He criticized the cap-and-trade proposals currently under consideration in Congress for their focus on mandates instead of incentives.
For more info about Charles Djou download his .pdf info sheet.
You can see Djou’s website at: www.djou.com.
Or subscribe to Djou’s Twitter Feed
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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