Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 7, 1 July 2006 — Hawaiian candidates [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian candidates

So far, five prominent Native Hawaiians have announced eandidacy bids in this fall's elections for Congress, governor and lieutenant governor. Clayton Hee, a state senator and former OHA chair, has indi-

cated that he's going to enter the crowded democratic primary race to fill the seat that U.S. Rep. Ed Case is vacating. Case is challenging the bid of Native Hawaiian Sen. Daniel Akaka to return to the U.S. Senate for a fourth term. Case and Akaka will face off in the democratic primary. Quentin Kawānanakoa, a former state representative, heir to the Campbell Estate and a descendant of Hawaiian royalty, has also said that he's throwing his hat into the race for Case's seat as a Republican. Meanwhile, Wai'anae harbor master William Ailā, an outspoken member of the activist groups Mālama Mākua and Hui Mālama i nā Kūpuna o Hawai'i nei, will compete for the governor's seat as a democrat, and Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona will presumably run for re-election. As KWO went to print, Ailā was the only one of the five that had formally filed papers to run. E