rssGOP Candidate in Hawaii Doesn’t Call for Repeal of Health Care Reform
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 3:14 pm
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Charles Djou, a Honolulu city councilman who’s mounting a strong — and lucky* — campaign for Hawaii’s first congressional district, doesn’t sound like he’s joining the “repeal health care reform” bandwagon. B.J. Reyes reports on a candidate forum in Honolulu:
Although Djou said he would have voted against the bill, he stopped short of saying he would join GOP efforts to repeal it.
“I think if we do not dramatically reform it and introduce a number of reforms … then yes, we do need to repeal,” Djou said. “But let’s try to work on dramatic reform first.”
Another report on the candidate forum confirms this — Djou wants to look at reform first, and repeal it if and when Democrats refuse to accept more GOP ideas. Djou isn’t exactly pounding the table about this issue.
*He’s facing two credible Democrats in a winner-take-all race, raising the possibility that he could win with a plurality of the vote in a split field.
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Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 8:42 pm
Yeah, but what is going to do about getting Hawaii to release the long form?
Sorry, couldn't resist…
Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 12:33 am
Djou is pro-choice and pro-gay rights. Now this? He just isn't a real R.
Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 2:48 am
Djou says he would have voted “no” on HCR, yet his state has universal healthcare.
“let's introduce dramatic reform first”. He's been zombified with Michelle Bachmann's fantasy that Republicans will gain a majority of 67 seats in the Senate in November.
With two credible Dems opposing him, the leader on the ticket getting all the support, he still believes he can win?
He says he won't join the Bachmann zombie squad in repeal. The first sensible and sane thing he's said.
I think the people of Hawaii know better. After all, my parents were both born and raised there, and they're both sane, sensible and caring people. Who have always voted Dem all their lives, and they know all about flip-flops.
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