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SABOTAGE: Narcissist RINO Andrew Walden Blackmailing and Extorting the Hawaii GOP
Tonight at 6:30pm, an emergency meeting of the Hawaii GOP’s state committee is being held (via the Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Zoom’ video conferencing platform) to evict a RINO saboteur in the party’s ranks who threatens to destroy a major Hawaii political event in just two months.
Andrew Walden, the infamous RINO operative and the current coordinator of the Hawaii Republican Party’s (HRP) presidential caucus appears to be threatening to cancel or even sabotage the statewide March 2024 ritual scheduled every four years, which allows local party members to have a voice in picking the presidential nominee (as well as determining the mix of delegates from Hawai’i who will attend the RNC convention).
This year’s presidential caucus, featuring in-person voting from 6pm to 8pm at several dozen locations statewide, is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. That’s just over two months from now, leaving little time for Walden’s saboteur tactics.
According to an urgent e-mail to HRP State Committee members from Tamara McKay – the current state chair who replaced Laura Nakanelua, who replaced Lohi Goodwin, who replaced Tom Dilhouse – “I’m calling an emergency State Committee meeting . . . (the) Purpose of the meeting is to elect a replacement for Andrew Walden since he failed to provide the caucus information (locations, list of volunteers and other pertinent information) as directed by the State Committee on December 21st.”
Disrespectful miscreant RINO Walden refuses to coordinate HRP’s caucus with the leaders of HRP, to include refusing to share the names of any volunteers for the polling places or the procedures to be followed because he doesn’t feel like it. According to the minutes of the most recent meeting of HRP’s State Committee, Walden’s weeks of refusals led the State Committee to recently set a deadline to obtain his cooperation. The following motion overwhelmingly passed: To have Presidential Caucus Organizer Walden share all details regarding Presidential Caucus planning and execution information with all HRP County Chairs not later than 5pm on Wednesday, December 27, 2023. That deadline came and went and Walden again refused to comply; deliberately blowing off their demand for cooperation. Nobody should have been surprised, as Walden reportedly promised to ignore HRP’s demands even if the motion was passed; calling them “morons” and other disrespectful names while shamelessly claiming that the March caucus “could become the biggest failure” without his leadership and then daring the state committee to try and remove him (“go right ahead”).
The writing on the wall was clear to Walden. But rather than be cooperative, he used his blog to attack party leaders and attempt to shift blame on them for any problems with the caucus. Being the bully and utter narcissist he is, Walden exhibited palpable rage for his bruised ego; writing overnight on the Hawaii Gay Press: “It doesn’t matter who they elect (to replace me) –nobody amongst their possible picks is even remotely capable of organizing the rest of the Caucus. These people couldn’t even complete the agenda at their last State Convention–a much easier task. Most have never even voted at a Caucus, much less organize one.” The resemblance between Walden and a bratty tween is hard not to notice.
Invoking his own ‘irreplaceability’, Walden hopes to convince enough state committee members before tonight’s vote that only he knows how to use the copy machine to print ballots and then use safety cones to get voters to line up. Nobody else is capable of using a calculator or spreadsheet to tally the results. Nobody but Andrew Walden. C’mon, it’s not rocket science. Everybody in HRP is replaceable. That’s why the job descriptions are put in writing.
In addition to using his Hawaii Gay Press website to attack party leaders to save his own skin, Walden appears to have employed the usual RINO suspects within HRP to act as his cheerleaders. Reportedly, corrupt former Kauai GOP county chair Steve Yoder has been making contact with state committee members in a lobbying effort. Even RINO apologist Rita Kama-Kimura has taken it upon herself to contact these party officers in the past 24 hours via email and shamelessly boast of Walden’s invaluable experience while also noting his prickly demeanor (an understatement). Walden himself has written to state committee members: “I need your support at the State Cmte meeting Tues Jan 2 630pm,” while stupidly gaslighting them with nonsense in his same midnight email – “there will be no caucus and all the candidates will lose their opportunity to get delegates in Hawaii” if he is removed from his post. Karine Jean-Pierre, eat your heart out. Nobody gaslights like Lyin’ Andrew “Zero Integrity” Walden.
Clearly, Andrew Walden has stubbornly kept all the information about the caucus to himself in order to make himself appear irreplaceable and put HRP at a severe disadvantage. And clearly Walden is using all means to bully the State Committee to keeping him on, despite his endless displays of disrespect and abuse. But current party officers are no longer buying Walden’s blackmail and extortion and sabotage. Hence, tonight’s emergency meeting.
Since belligerent Walden even refuses to share the volunteer list with HRP leaders (despite having voted to compel him to do so), they’ve had to take the embarrassing and unfortunate step of starting from scratch to obtain volunteers for the presidential caucus by posting the following message on the HRP website:
“We need volunteers to staff caucus locations. IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY SIGNED UP before 12/26/23 TO VOLUNTEER, PLEASE SIGN UP AGAIN. The organizers experienced technical issues with the original sign up sheet.”
https://thehawaiirepublicanparty.com/2024-presidential-caucus
The contact information for the 190 people who reportedly signed up before Christmas appear to be lost, as Walden refuses to share this information with party leaders.
Simply put, those “technical issues” cited on HRP’s website are a euphemism for Andrew Walden’s deliberate sabotage which, like any savvy terrorist does, he is ready to blame HRP for the resulting carnage.
But his sabotage didn’t end there. In fact, Walden reportedly contacted representatives of various presidential campaigns telling them that the party was canceling HRP’s presidential caucus, which cost each of the presidential candidates $10,000 to participate in. Fortunately, HRP was reportedly able to reassure the leaders of these campaigns that the caucus is going ahead as schedule. Walden was merely trying to scare them to save his own skin. But he keeps falsely spreading the word that HRP is canceling the caucuses.
His sabotage still doesn’t end there. Andrew “Nobody Likes Me” Walden has even abused his HRP ‘title’ of caucus organizer by misusing his soon-to-be-extinct position with HRP to stir up trouble for HRP; by reportedly attempting to solicit derogatory statements against top party officers from individuals and organizations which he hopes to publish on his blog (while simultaneously running the caucuses); demanding that they help him write nasty, crazy stories about party leaders because he is the chairman of the presidential caucus. Without question, using his party post to harass and attack people he doesn’t like is far outside the job description for printing ballots and having secret party volunteers count them. Walden is acting to save his own skin and shift blame to others by changing the subject.
Or could the truth be EVEN WORSE than that . . .
Everyone in the Hawaii GOP knows that the current top officers campaigned for their jobs AGAINST the RINO cabal which has controlled HRP for decades. And everyone knows that this cabal (which includes Andrew Walden and his supporters) wants to grab power back from the “reformers” on the HRP executive committee. Causing the disruption and cancellation of HRP’s 2024 presidential caucus would provide fodder for attacking Tamara McKay and her fellow executive officers, even if the problems were caused by Andrew Walden. So, in theory, Walden could abuse his role coordinating the caucuses to take down the reformers in order to restore control of HRP to the RINOs.
Such a strategy would need to involve having the heads of the local campaigns for Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Ron Desantis join in the call for the ouster of Tamara McKay et al. Well, any reasonable examination of the names of the leaders of those campaigns results in a reasonable conclusion. Of course RINO Shirlene Ostrov (Trump campaign chair), RINO Andria Tupola (Haley campaign chair) and RINO Braedon Wilkerson (Desantis campaign chair, #NeverTrumper, Tupola campaign operative, and active participant in Democrat campaigns as well as the progressive activist group HAPA) have what it takes to help bring HRP back under the control of RINOs and Democrats like the party has always been . . . until now.
Ostrov, Tupola and Wilkerson have repeatedly gone out of their way to screw island Republicans and conservatives on too many occasions to list here. Sooooo, Walden may be the ‘tip of the spear’ in a long con to oust Tamara McKay and her fellow ‘party reformers’. And so, WHO was it that secretly appointed defiant rogue operative Walden to the very post which he might be removed from tonight? Well, one of the biggest RINOs of them all – Laura Nakanelua, HRP’s embarrassment of a national committeewoman who served briefly as interim state chair after engineering the ouster of her predecessor Lohi Goodwin (a McKay ally) and installing herself as state chair so she could help Maui cheater Sheila Walker to become the new state chair (instead of Tamara McKay). Yes, the plot thickens and the recipe is toxic.
One thing’s for sure. Hawaii Democrats are sleeping great tonight. All of this Walden-manufactured turmoil keeps HRP flat-footed and distracted at the start of the 2024 election year. It was probably naive of Tamara McKay to retain RINO activist and Nakanelua-appointee Andrew Walden in the role of organizing the presidential caucus, despite his long rap sheet of RINO crimes; to include active political support of turncoat Republicans like Democrat Kym Pine, Democrat Charles Djou, Democrat Beth Fukumoto, Democrat Ann Kobayashi and other well known and lesser known RINOs and closet Democrats. This is also the same Andrew Walden who abused his position as HRP’s rules chairman a few years back by trying to extend corrupt chairman Fritz Rohlfing’s term by an entire year (so he could help manipulate HRP on behalf of favored candidates); knowing there was no way Crooked Fritz could get re-elected by party members to another two-year term. That’s the kind of establishment RINO putz Andrew Walden really is.
To be clear, if it all goes wrong with HRP’s March presidential caucus, Walden and all the old guard RINO establishment folks (including those who got themselves appointed to lead the local campaigns for Trump, Haley and Desantis) can and probably will blame Team Tamara and then they will do everything to take her and her team down in a matter of days or weeks. The only question is how long this takedown has been in the planning stages. These same RINOs don’t care about ousting Democrats at the State Capitol, in county government or in Washington, DC. Like Andrew Walden, they only care about controlling the Hawaii Republican Party, which means RE-GAINING CONTROL from the non-establishment folks currently holding the reins.
Ultimately, having to watch RINO #NeverTrumper and hostage-taking political terrorist Walden persistently sabotage HRP through blackmail and extortion for weeks now SHOULD easily lead to an overwhelming vote tonight causing him to be unemployed by the state party after tonight’s State Committee meeting. But like their mainland counterparts, local RINOs should never be underestimated. They’ve led HRP to doom for decades and nobody really questions their endless thirst for power which they’ve never used to make Hawaii a better place. So the same recycled names of liberals and closet Democrats keep popping back up in the Hawaii GOP.
Self-absorbed Walden has been ranting for days that removing him from the role of caucus coordinator is the equivalent of canceling the caucuses altogether, ‘warning’ the state committee yesterday: “She (state chair Tamara McKay) wants to go directly to a vote on my so-called replacement. If you let her, there will be no caucus and all the candidates will lose their opportunity to get delegates in Hawaii.” Gaslighting much, Andrew?
Let’s hope that HRP’s State Committee has the guts to send noxious, vitriolic, loose cannon Andrew Walden packing for good tonight, from a position which doesn’t even exist in the party’s rules. Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye RINO.
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TROUBLE IN THE PACIFIC: CCP Controlled Red China Poses Serious Threat to Hawaii and 49 Fellow States
Remember Joe Biden? How about Cackling Kamala, seen here saving Sleepy Joe from falling off a stage several months ago? Sadly, Sleepy Joe is still our nation’s “commander in chief” for the next two months. Thankfully, the average voter saw through the tragic charade of Biden-Harris ‘leadership’. Yet, even while Democrats tried to convince us that ‘health care for women’ and ‘gender affirming care’ for confused children and ‘protecting democracy’ were the only issues that really mattered in 2024, a majority of our fellow citizens opened their eyes and saw the real world for what it is: A dangerous place full of very real threats. Voters knew that the greatest nation could no longer afford to continue with wimpy leaders in the White House. Certainly not with nations like China on the march to harm the United States of America economically and, if necessary, militarily.
As the doddering, dementia-addled President Biden prepared for his final meeting with Chinese President and strongman dictator Xi Jinping this week in Lima, Peru, during this weekend’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, concerns about China’s influence and espionage activities in the United States have reached alarming levels – alarming if you’ve been paying attention. Americans have seen for themselves that the Biden administration’s approach to China has misprioritized diplomatic engagement and weak political posturing over any determination to truly confront key national security threats. Let’s hope that voters have helped change course in time to prevent the worst from happening, since there’s much to worry about.
Recent reports from the House Committee on Homeland Security reveal a disturbing increase in Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-related espionage cases under the Biden-Harris administration. From February 2021 to August 2024, over 55 CCP-related espionage cases were recorded across 20 states, involving the transmission of sensitive military information, theft of trade secrets, and transnational repression schemes.
Adding to these concerns, China has even made alarming statements regarding Hawaii. In 2015, Chinese military officials suggested arming Hawaii’s anti-statehood, pro-Kingdom separatists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. This threat was reiterated in subsequent years. In case you didn’t know, anti-American sovereignty separatists (AASS for short) have an army already, known as “Occupied Forces Hawaii Army”, whose members, according to Hawaii News Now and other sources, “have to renounce their ties to the American government.” Just for starters, imagine domestic terrorism in the islands stemming from these America-hating AASS’s being in possession of dangerous Chinese arms? If you consider how China has been able to smuggle endless amounts of explosives to Hawaii each year for decades right under the nose of unionized State of Hawaii bureaucrats in the form of illegal fireworks, then you can easily understand the real risk here. [On a side note, violent gun crime on the Waianae Coast is noticeably on the rise, as evidenced by breathless news stories over the past few months alone You’ll find MANY members of the OFH Army living from Kapolei and Nanakuli out to Waianae, Maili and Makaha.]
China is threatening to challenge America by making legal claims on The State Of Hawaii as China’s territory.
A direct affront to U.S. sovereignty and a worrying signal of how far China is willing to go to destabilize American unity. Hawaii’s strategic importance as a Pacific military base means that threats against our security in the islands could impact the entire nation, underscoring the importance of an assertive American response. The OFH Army is committed to illegal strategies while pursuing challenges to the ownership of land in Hawaii.
Remember the Spy Balloons?
The controversial Chinese spy balloon incident in early 2023 further highlighted the Biden-Harris administration’s perceived weakness in addressing Chinese incursions. Despite the balloon traversing sensitive U.S. military sites – waiting for the spy balloon to completely travel coast to coast, from Alaska to South Carolina – the administration’s delayed response drew sharp and well-deserved criticism. That’s a perfect example of the current federal response to espionage by China.
The Confucius Institutes, which were previously scrutinized by the Trump administration due to their ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), continue to be a source of concern on American campuses as China exercised ‘soft power’. In August 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated the Confucius Institute U.S. Center as an entity advancing “Beijing’s global propaganda and malign influence campaign on U.S. campuses and K-12 classrooms.” Pompeo stated that these institutes were part of a broader espionage effort and took steps to ensure their removal from the U.S, citing them as espionage organizations.’
These are the same CCP espionage and propaganda organizations whose operatives progressive politicians such as ‘Republican’ Governor Linda Lingle and UH Manoa executives happily welcomed at the University of Hawaii – a place where positive public relations about China were clearly intended to counter news accounts and critics of anti-Western CCP policies.
Since 2013, more than 50 universities have closed down these ‘institutes’, including the one stupidly championed by Lingle and other RINOs, as well as UH president David Lassner who would often kick off institute events. These institutes represent a significant security risk, operating as a foothold for CCP influence in America. Notwithstanding the danger, the University of Hawaii simply rebranded its Confucius Institute as the “Center for Chinese Studies”. Don’t be fooled, as UH leaders always considered these entities to be 100% connected, as a UH press release made abundantly clear: “The UH Mānoa Confucius Institute was established in November 2006 in collaboration with the elite Beijing Foreign Studies University. It is part of UH Mānoa’s Center for Chinese Studies, which offers more than 150 courses on China.” Again, it is part of UH’s Center for Chinese Studies. A distinction without a difference.
Many universities hosting Confucius Institutes continue to receive federal funding despite calls for accountability and transparency regarding foreign influence on campuses. There are growing demands for these institutions to return federal funds and for those involved in facilitating these programs to face prosecution. Despite these warnings, these institutes represent a significant security risk. Sadly, many will simply follow UH’s lead by subversively rebranding the CCP propaganda initiative as their own. As they say in China, 谢谢美利坚合众国 or Xièxiè měilìjiān hézhòngguó. “Thank you, America”.
The End of the ‘China Initiative’:
A Controversial Decision
In 2022, the Biden administration ended the China Initiative, a Trump-era program dedicated to countering Chinese espionage in the United States. The closure of this initiative, justified with predictably ‘woke’ Democrat logic that prosecuting spies was somehow racist, has fueled criticism that the administration is prioritizing diplomacy over addressing critical national security threats. Without a dedicated counter-espionage program, many fear that Chinese intelligence efforts will go unchecked, leaving American companies, universities, and military interests vulnerable. By the time we find out, it will be too late.
Recent Espionage Cases Linked to Hawaii:
- Alexander Yuk Ching Ma: A former CIA officer and FBI contract linguist based in Honolulu, Ma was arrested and charged with spying for China. He pled guilty to conspiracy charges related to providing classified information to Chinese intelligence officers. Ma was sentenced to 10 years in prison after admitting his role in passing sensitive information about CIA operations and personnel.
- Linda Sun Case: While primarily based in New York, Linda Sun’s alleged espionage activities included connections to Hawaii through real estate purchases funded by kickbacks from Beijing. Sun was accused of using her position in New York state government to assist Chinese officials covertly.
Shop (for Chinese goods) Till You Drop
American shoppers, including consumers in the Aloha State, appear mostly unconcerned that constantly spending their take home pay on Chinese goods through retailers like Amazon, Temu, Shein, Walmart and Ali Express are funding the CCP’s insidious initiatives against the USA and the CCP’s ever-growing war machine. The elite establishment’s fear of taking on China – the fear and the establishment which Trump clearly campaigned against – has prevented our government from warning and educating our fellow citizens that there will come a day when we regret putting American manufacturing out of business in order to buy cheap Chinese goods so we can “live large”. Unfortunately, that ‘day’ probably won’t come until something really bad happens. Losing U.S. manufacturing jobs is tragic. Having a nearly $300 billion trade deficit with China is likewise tragic. So, it will probably take something even more tragic to spur change. Yes, even more tragic than unleashing COVID-19 on the world from a lab in Wuhan. Something more deadly which comes directly and undeniably from the CCP armed forces. Some might describe America’s (and Hawaii’s) current economic relationship as China ‘selling us the very rope they will hang us with’; especially if we truly support freedom for the countries surrounding China, not to mention our own freedom.
General Milley’s Controversial China influence.
General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has faced significant backlash for his communications with China during the final months of the first Trump administration. Reports revealed that Milley assured his CCP counterpart, General Li Zuocheng, that the United States would not launch an attack against China. This action has been characterized by President Donald Trump and others as treasonous, raising questions about Milley’s adherence to military protocol and civilian control of the military. Trump and several lawmakers have called for accountability regarding Milley’s actions, arguing that they undermine national security and set a dangerous precedent. Was Milley prosecuted or punished for his treasonous behavior? Of course not. And the CCP couldn’t be happier that America’s generals are allowed to cozy up to China when the chips are down.
Concerns Over Biden’s Intentions
As President Biden meets with Xi Jinping this weekend for the APEC 2024 Summit, most American citizens are sure to be concerned that Kamala’s boss might adopt a conciliatory approach similar to General Milley’s allegiance to China during his controversial calls with China. They worry that Biden could prioritize CCP engagement at the expense of U.S. interests, potentially compromising on critical issues like trade imbalances, human rights, and regional security. China has shown increasing aggression in encounters, particularly in the South China Sea and near Taiwan
There have been incidents of Chinese nationals acquiring land adjacent to U.S. military bases across the country (including Hawaii) and incidents of unauthorized entry into restricted areas. Furthermore, Chinese technical collection efforts, including spy balloons and satellite surveillance, have targeted Hawaii. Given these circumstances, China has clearly acted in bad faith. Prioritizing diplomacy with a hostile country that has demonstrated its intentions to harm America is unacceptable. The actions of China pose significant threats to Hawaii’s sovereignty and American interests more broadly. As Saturday November, 16, 2024 nears Americans prepare for Biden to meet Xi, there is growing apprehension that similar backdoor assurances could be made to China, possibly without the knowledge of key U.S. leaders or even the incoming Trump administration. Given China’s unrelenting espionage and influence efforts, Americans are rightfully wary of any perceived concessions or covert agreements that could undermine U.S. security.
Fortunately, the incoming Trump administration is expected to take a more aggressive approach to China, even as the inherited Biden bureaucracy works to dull any Team Trump reforms. As the U.S. prepares for this transition, many are calling for a tougher stance on China and concrete actions to address these growing national security concerns and aggression towards American citizens.
Trump has previously demonstrated a firmer stance on China’s influence. The Trump America First initiative is expected to take immediate action, to include the permanent closure of all Confucius Institutes in the United States, prosecuting those involved in espionage, and drawing a hard line that underscores American sovereignty and support for our allies.
HIRA NEWS Our Conclusion
In this new era of geopolitical competition, the stakes have never been higher for the U.S. to defend its sovereignty. China’s multi-pronged efforts to undermine American institutions – from espionage to threats against the state of Hawaii and influence in U.S. universities — demand a unified and decisive response. As citizens, we must remain vigilant and demand accountability, ensuring that our leaders prioritize America First interests and refuse any further encroachments by the CCP on our values, our security, and our future. Hawaii is in China’s sights, just as much as our sister states. Our island population has proven to be easily manipulated with appeals to multiculturalism by our lamestream news media and by the puppet politicians and special interest groups who resist reforms to the status quo. If the 2024 election showed us anything, the vast majority of voters reject the status quo. Finally pushing back against the CCP’s ambitious and anti-USA agenda constitutes a real rejection of what the elites have allowed to fester and threaten all of us for too damn long.
Additional Sources:
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- Hawaii Free Press – “Confucius Institute at UH Manoa: Closure and Ongoing Concerns”
- NBC News – “Ex-CIA officer accused of spying for China pleads guilty”
- Washington Times – “China threatens to arm Hawaii separatists”
- Civil Beat – “Ex-CIA officer who spied for China gets 10 years in prison”
- AP News – “Former CIA officer charged with spying for China”
- New York Times – “Biden to Meet With President Xi Jinping of China During Summit This Weekend”
- Washington Times – “China threatens to arm Hawaii separatists”
- House Committee on Oversight and Accountability – “Hearing Wrap-Up: Federal Agencies Have Succumbed to CCP Influence”
- NBC News – “Ex-CIA officer accused of spying for China pleads guilty”
- AP News – “Former CIA officer charged with spying for China”
- Civil Beat – “Ex-CIA officer who spied for China gets 10 years in prison”
- New York Times – “Biden to Meet With President Xi Jinping of China During Summit This Weekend”
- USA Today – “Trump, Republicans call Gen. Milley ‘treasonous'”
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HAWAII GOP ANTISEMITISM SCANDAL: State Chair McKay Casually Allows Jew Hate to Flourish on Eve of Election 2024
Lahaina, Maui – So many of you have written HIRA News asking for a follow-up story on the exploding Hawaii GOP Anti-Semitism Scandal. Others have written and told us to shut up and to stop exposing the nutjobs in the leadership of the Hawaii Republican Party. Let’s just say that the misguided party’s defenders of anti-Semitism – including nutjobs, crazies, closet Democrats, liberals, RINOs and Jew haters – are about to be very disappointed.
Here’s the rest of the story . . .
Since HIRA News exclusively broke the news of this scandal in the ranks of the Hawaii GOP’s leadership, state GOP chair Tamara McKay has stubbornly REFUSED to call for the resignation of her junior officer, and refused to rush this matter onto the agenda of the party’s governing State Committee. Instead, McKay has casually punted the ball down the field while officially declaring, “This matter is a county matter”. This comes after nearly every single remaining officer in the Hawaii GOP refused to call for McKay’s Maui GOP chair Tammy Ash Perkins to step down . . . even after Perkins doubled down on her apparent hatred of Israel and Jews just days before Hawaii’s 2024 General Election.
In other words, Tamara McKay doesn’t care about antisemitism in her own party enough to root it out from right under her nose. Meanwhile, as you may have heard through the grapevine, McKay has presided over numerous official party meetings in recent weeks because various party members hurt her feelings or had the nerve to disagree with her or her friends; even while the most basic party functions such as communications, coalition building, voter persuasion, get out the vote (GOTV) and so much more are NOT BEING DONE AT ALL It shows you what Ms. McKay deems important. Public Jew bashing by top GOP officers in their official capacity is NOTHING to deal with immediately. It can wait. Others can worry about it if they want to. But not Tamara. She is only concerned about dealing with those whom she is upset with for personal reasons.
MAUI GOP OFFICERS DROP THE BALL: In addition, following the original HIRA News story, the Maui GOP county committee dug in and refused to permanently dump their inept county chair Perkins despite her abuse of office and her virulent anti-Israel messaging which Perkins boasts she was “glad” about. No wonder the neighbor islands don’t have a single elected Republican. Not a one. In the Maui GOP of Tamara McKay (of which she was chair before becoming statewide GOP chair), bashing Jews and bashing Israel using party resources is considered “manini” or minor.
Interestingly, a woman named Jennifer Hunt (pictured here) is listed simultaneously on the websites for both the Hawaii GOP and the Maui GOP as the vice chair of communications for BOTH the state party AND the Maui county party. That means state GOP chair Tamara McKay, for whom Ms. Hunt works, is partly-responsible (along with Ms. Hunt and obviously Ms. Perkins) for putting the Hawaii GOP in the camp of Jew haters. WHY on Earth would any non-insane political ‘communications’ honcho want to spread hatred about Jews ever, let alone just days before an important election?? Hmm, probably for the same reason that zero party officers have publicly called for Perkins to resign her position.
HIRA News reached out to Ms. Hunt but received no response about how Tammy Ash Perkins got control of the Maui GOP’s MailChimp e-newsletter account in order to attack Jews in Israel in Ms. Hunt’s official Maui GOP newsletter? Ms. Hunt also didn’t reply by our publishing deadline for her comment about Ms. Perkin’s opinion of Jews in Israel as being guilty of genocide and unjustified ‘attacks’ on Israel’s neighbors. Since not much communication appears to be coming from either the state or county GOP organizations, it’s hard to believe that Ms. Hunt was too busy to address this growing scandal. Aren’t all party officers on high alert during the final 9 days before the election?
ON THE SAME PAGE AS TERRORISTS: On the anniversary of Hamas’ October 2023 deadly attack on Israel, and with top Hawaii GOP leaders circling the wagons and silently condoning the antisemitism of the Maui GOP chairwoman Tammy Ash Perkins promoted through official Hawaii GOP communications, it’s clear that heads need to roll at the now homeless (headquarters shuttered by Shirlene Ostrov and Tamara McKay months ago) Hawaii Republican Party. At this exact moment, Ms. Perkins (and her seemingly numerous supporters in the Hawaii GOP) have everything in common with leftist America-haters and terror-loving Jew-haters in Iran and elsewhere. Just compare her worldview with that of Iran’s Supreme Leader and the world’s #1 terror organization funder Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said the following while a crowd of antisemites were chanting “Death to Israel”:
“The world is witnessing the Zionist regime’s genocide.”
That’s typical Iran ayatollah brand antisemitism for you. But, the official statement from the Maui Republican Party is virtually identical:
“Zionists are committing Genoside (sic) in the middle east.”
Holy crap!! And then there’s the official statement from the Democrat Socialists of America:
“Demand an end to the Zionist Genocide!”
Well, that’s just perfect. Republicans in Hawaii are now on the same page as the Ayatollah and Socialists.
PERKINS THINKS WE ARE ALL STUPID: After the antisemitism was exposed by HIRA News, top Republican party officer Perkins showed everyone how stupid she thinks all Republicans are by pretending that by attacking Zionists, she didn’t mean Jews in Israel (THE VERY DEFINITION OF ZIONISTS). Like a moron who doesn’t know anything about the political party she is leading, Maui county chair Perkins mindlessly quotes the United Nations (a historically anti-Israel cult of anti-Western countries which attempted to make anti-Semitism international law) in order to pretend that she wasn’t talking about Israel or Jews when attacking “Zionists”. Yes, she quoted some UN anti-Israel resolution to make her point to other Republicans. Even Mazie Hirono is smarter than Tammy Ash Perkins.
LAYING IT ON REALLY THICK: “I never mentioned Israel and never mentioned Jews,” Perkins ridiculously wrote to fellow party officers in her own defense this weekend, as if she believes we are all stupid. Adding insult to injury, Maui GOP chair Perkins refuses to identify any possible people or country OTHER than Jews in Israel whom she claims to have been talking about when attacking genocide-committing Zionists. But OF COURSE she was accusing Jews of genocide and accusing Israel of attacking its innocent, defenseless neighbors without any justification (like constant rocket fire, terror attacks, kidnappings, etc.). Sure, Perkins might see herself as the slickest, smoothest-talking, smartest person on Maui capable of fooling the average Maui resident with her slippery double-speak. But in reality she’s an entirely unclever Jew hating nutjob who belongs nowhere near the leadership of the Hawaii GOP.
FLASHBACK TO EMPTY WORDS FROM TAMARA MCKAY: Following Hamas’ October 7th attack on Israel last year, McKay published an official message from the local GOP – “Israel’s strength lies in its resolve to secure the well-being of its citizens.” However, the local GOP has no problem with Perkins accusing Israel of “starting to bomb its neighbors”. So much for supporting the efforts to ‘secure the well-being’ of Jews who are being attacked daily by terrorists on all sides of our nation’s main ally in the region. Totally empty words from hypocrite Tamara McKay, who can’t even be bothered to address the antisemitism from her junior officer by calling an emergency meeting of the State Committee to fire Perkins and apologize for her junior officer’s appalling misconduct. Disgusting!!
LIVING IN DENIAL: Earlier this year, at the Hawaii GOP’s poorly attended state convention in Mililani, a resolution was approved by the handful of delegates there (just a couple hundred out of a potential 2,000) voted to pass a resolution affirming the Hawaii Republican Party’s support for Israel (and condemning the October 7th attack on Israel by the Hamas terror organization). According to our sources on the party’s governing State Committee (which Tamara McKay refuses to allow to convene to fire Perkins), the convention’s passage of that explicit statement of support for Jews in Israel didn’t stop Tammy Ash Perkins from asserting over the weekend, “For you to say that our State HRP 2024 position is in direct opposition to what I said is nonsense. There is none.” Not only is Perkins an unhinged antisemitic idiot and a total liar, she is systematically and casually abusing her official post to tell the world that Republicans don’t officially support Israel in Hawaii or nationally.
GASLIGHTING BY HRP VICE CHAIR SHERYL BIELER: Other members of Tamara McKay’s executive committee have jumped in to circle the wagons around Perkins, including Sheryl Bieler, the HRP vice chair for coalitions (more accurately, HRP vice chair for personal sales of Trump merchandise at local rallies resold from Temu). McKay’s AWOL coalitions vice chair Bieler cranked up the bull and the gaslighting when she told HIRA News over the weekend: “To be perfectly clear, I myself find this disgusting also. The State chair cannot remove her from her position. (a total lie) She is Maui County Chair and was voted in by them. They must remove her from her seat. Please stop bashing Tamara for something she had no knowledge of. You know as well as everybody in the party, a removal from the party must go to the State Committee. (what’s taking so long?) So hold your horses.” Yes, Bieler is part of the operation to protect her boss Tamara from having to do the right thing, since Perkins has been a loyal puppet of McKay inside the dysfunctional political party. So sad. Perkins should have been removed from office in an emergency meeting 10 days ago.
We’re still waiting for that list of coalitions Bieler built in time for 2024. Bieler? Bieler?
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Following the 2020 election, serious charges of antisemitism in the Hawaii GOP led quickly to the ouster of corrupt RINO Shirlene Ostrov as the state chair and the ouster of Ostrov-brownnosing Edwin Boyette, her vice chair for communications. But the wagon-circling in October 2024 has kept top leaders of the corrupt and incompetent Hawaii GOP in their jobs . . . for now. But a reality check is in order. Maui GOP Chair Perkins has pulled a Shirlene Ostrov on steroids: Attacking Jews with antisemitic rubbish sent officially by the Republican Party just before Election Day using the party’s official e-mail communications and SPEAKING FOR ALL REPUBLICANS as if her accusations of GENOCIDE is official party policy. Is this the October Surprise folks in Hawaii have been waiting for? Could there be more October Surprises and perhaps even November Surprises?!? One thing’s for sure: If Ostrov had to go, then Perkins’ ouster is an even easier decision. Oy vey!!
THERE’S BEEN ONE UNRELATED RESIGNATION OF A HIGH-RANKING OFFICIAL: There has been one resignation of a county chairman on Oahu. Steve Lipscomb threw in the towel a few weeks ago as leader of the Honolulu GOP because he didn’t want to be supervised by Tamara McKay’s vice chairwoman Teri Savaiinaea, who was ALSO supposed to be supervising Tammy Ash Perkins this entire time. The Hawaii GOP’s State Committee recently voted to reaffirm McKay’s strongly held belief that Savaiinaea was supposed to be supervising Perkins, Lipscomb and the other three county chairs. Apparently, such supervision wasn’t happening at all. You’d think that winning in 2024 would matter enough to these party officers that they’d do their jobs and do them well. Apparently NOT. In fact, McKay has no plans to fill the vacancy to replace Lipscomb until after the General Election. So, one can easily conclude that the work of each county party can’t really be that important to anyone.
DOUBLING DOWN: In response to HIRA News exposing her antisemitic views, Perkins again used the Maui GOP’s official communications to double down on her antisemitism, praising her own comments (“glad that I did”), called herself “unafraid” for ‘standing her ground’ in attacking Israel and Jews. No wonder Tamara McKay is so impressed with her friend Tammy Perkins. Like McKay, even when someone is wrong, they stand their ground and prove their abject unwillingness to apologize and/or get out of the way so the damage can be contained.
ARE THERE TWO SIDES TO THIS STORY?: Opponents of Tammy Perkins are lining up. And so are her supporters. More on this below.
RUNNING FOR OFFICE WITH AN ALBATROSS AROUND YOUR NECK: In 2024, brave Republican candidates on all islands have already been thrown to the wolves by party leaders who failed to do their jobs since 2022 in laying the groundwork for victory (or at least coming close). After being told the entire burden of being elected rests on them, why are GOP candidates now being forced to worry about voters seeing island Republicans as possible Jew haters by stupid, hateful officers of the Hawaii GOP under Tamara McKay’s command? For instance, Scott Adam is now running (again) for state house on Maui against Democrat Mahina Poepoe. Scott’s wife, Mrs. Amanda Adam, is an officer of the Maui GOP under Tammy Ash Perkins. Does Perkins’ emulating the kind of “Israel has no right to exist” garbage of terrorists make either of the Adam’s lives easier with her hateful vitriol? Of course not. On top of that, NOBODY in America uses the word “Zionists” in a sentence unless he or she is a Jew hating crazy person that probably also blames Israel for the 9/11 terror attacks? Don’t ever forget that Tammy Ash Perkins explicitly accused Israel of genocide and questioned Israel’s right to defend itself TEN DAYS AGO WITH TOTAL IMPUNITY from GOP leaders.
WILL THE MAUI GOP TAKE ACTION?: Mrs. Adam’s fellow officer in the Maui GOP, Arsenio Amario, has been on an emotional rollercoaster since HIRA News broke the story on this scandal. At first, poor Arsenio wrote to HIRA News and told us that Perkins has a first amendment right to hate on Israel and Jews. Then, perhaps after thinking more clearly, he submitted an official MALFEASANCE complaint against Perkins for abusing her office by INTENTIONALLY sending out an official newsletter attacking Jews and attacking Israel. After that, Mr. Amario really upped the ante by issuing Hawaii Republican leaders (in internal communications) a very stark choice in how they respond to the Hawaii GOP’s antisemitism scandal, writing to fellow party members as he unsuccessfully demanded action by feckless loser Tamara McKay: “Stand and Fight for what is right. The Redline is drawn. You are either for Israel’s Right to Co-Exist with the Peaceful Palestinian People -OR- Side with the Pro-Terrorist group: HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, and all IRANIAN’s Terror proxy Armies.” It seems that Mr. Amario came to an obvious realization late in the day, as he confessed this past week, explaining in his complaint against Perkins: “But since it was sent out via official MailChimp, it becomes our MCRP official unified position.” Obviously, buddy. That’s what HIRA News said in the first place.
THE HEARTACHE CONVEYED IN AMARIO’S COMPLAINT: Maui GOP’s Arsenio Amario abandoned his initial defensiveness and glibness about Perkins’ anti-Semitism when writing that, “Each and everyone of us that disagree with Madam Perkins’ contentions are currently hurting as we truly believed — deep in our hearts, being Catholics and Christians — that ISRAEL “IDF” has only acted in reactions to the atrocities committed by the terror group HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH. And that Israel has the right to defend and protect its citizens “peaceful Jewish people and Palestinian alike” against terrorism. I am considering this complaint as URGENT – and needs emergency actions to prevent an exodus of members and delegates resignations from District 9 and District 10 including myself, the whole members of our household, friends and relatives.” Damn, that’s pretty serious. No wonder this scandal is exploding and the party is imploding.
BUT ANTISEMITIC PERKINS HAS HER NUTTY SUPPORTERS TOO: Israel haters, antisemites and other crazies are coming out of the woodwork to defend Maui GOP chair Perkins’ attack. One of Perkin’s biggest defenders is Kauai resident and tinfoil hat-wearing activist Ray Songtree, who writes that “Trump supporters are crazy to think Trump will drain the swamp of Rothschild Zionism. Wake up and smell the Zionism.” Songtree’s social media presence promotes articles such as “Trump’s Worse Than Bush and Obama Because You Think He Isn’t”. In a message to Perkins about the party’s antisemitism scandal, Songtree sympathizes and whines: “You are being attacked by ignorant people.” Well, somebody out there has to like Tammy “Hamas” Perkins as much as Tamara McKay does.
And Songtree isn’t alone. Millilani 2024 Republican legislative candidate Emil Svrcina gave a fist-waving defense of Perkins: “That’s why GOP is controlled (fake) opposition party.” Svrcina added, “Trump is a puppet of Israel first ideology.” We’re sure that Perkins and Songtree (and the Ayatollah) would be happy to hear Emil’s take. What’s next? The Earth is flat??
Big Island party gadfly and extreme RINO Ralph Sherman, circling the wagons around Perkins, responded to HIRA News revelation about the antisemitism scandal: “No one is listening to your hateful rhetoric. Give it a rest. Have you ever said anything positive about anybody?” This guy wouldn’t last 5 minutes in the comments section on Twitter without needing a new tampon from Tim Walz. So sad that this guy moved all the way to Hawaii to spend the remainder of his life being a useless idiot (or useful idiot, depending on which side you’re on). He’ll surely die on the hill known as Tamara McKay.
Closet Democrat and Hawaii GOP infiltrator Donna Von Idiot tried to minimize the scandal, writing: “This in-party bickering is, IMHO, so manini compared to what is truly at stake.” Yes, telling Hawaii voters that Jews are genocidal racists and that Israel has no right to defend itself is exactly what our message should be right before the election. Heck, let’s tell people we feel that way all year long. Thanks for your brilliant insight, Donna!
GO FUCK YOURSELF, HIRA NEWS: Failed Hawaii GOP state treasurer (under Tamara McKay) and soon-to-be-failed 2024 Kauai GOP state house candidate Mike Jauch had some choice words for HIRA News and its two main reporters who broke the anti-Semitism story, Eric Ryan and Kai Lorinc. “Go fuck yourself you garbage wrapped in skin. You are a globalist.” Unless his point wasn’t made clearly enough for his wife Rosemary and his handful of other feckless simpleton comrades to comprehend, “These two globalists, Eric and Kai, never go after the globalists because they are part of NWO (the New World Order). They bring vile vitriol.” And then, in a final flourish of pure RINO gaslighting, Jauch attacks longtime conservative activist Eric Ryan, writing: “Eric spews vitriolic diarrhea only at conservatives. Why is that? Because he is a globalist, procommunist. A double flush is apropos.” Apparently, Jauch has ZERO problem with Perkins aligning with terrorists and Jew haters throughout the Middle East and on American college campuses, where “from the river to the sea” means EXACTLY what we all know it means: Death to Israel and Jews. Sounds very NWO and UN, Mr. Jauch.
THE TRUTH WILL SET VOTERS FREE FROM VOTING GOP: If this is Jauch’s response to HIRA News about the Perkins scandal, then HRP’s toxic antisemitism problem is evidently on Kauai as well as Maui, where Perkins and McKay are headquartered. With Michael Jauch equating the protection of Jews (and probably other ‘infidels’ such as Americans) from being perennial targets of armed militants with being “globalist”, the terrorists have already won over some weak-minded converts. Practically speaking, akamai Hawaii voters have long memories and often bear grudges. Many still regard the Hawaii GOP as the party which suppressed labor and ran the plantations and dumped on immigrants brought here to work the soil. If this scandal remains unaddressed speedily, this new stain of anti-Semitism will be hard to live down with a voting population already sensitive to ethnic animus. If Ostrov had to resign and her communications chair had to hastily resign over whiffs of antisemitism (due to well-reasoned political pressure from top Republicans on the mainland), then people like Tammy Perkins and Mike Jauch and #1 apologist Tamara McKay really ought to be removed from the party’s membership roster THIS WEEK. And WHERE is McKay’s vice chair for coordinated campaigns, Fenton “Kaulana” Lee? Probably still celebrating how corrupt RINO Shirlene Ostrov arranged for his ‘perk’ to accompany her and other RINOs to the RNC national convention a few months ago as a reward for doing jack squat in accomplishing the critical work which comes with his title. But we certainly haven’t heard any public statements from Mr. Lee to condemn hate speech and anti-Semitism. Such refusal by top GOP officers to condemn Perkins equals condoning these evil sentiments.
THE LOCAL PARTY OF CRAZY PEOPLE: When fake Republicans and nutjobs have taken over the Hawaii GOP, as they clearly have, it’s time for action by party members. But, hold on folks, as more information about these losers is coming from HIRA News later this week. Stay tuned for a full report on how the Hawaii GOP’s top leaders are DELIBERATELY SURRENDERING AND KNOWINGLY LOSING to island Democrats in 2024. Yes, let’s cut to the chase – we will be stuck with the Democrat supermajority in our county, state, and congressional offices for the next few years thanks to malfeasance, nonfeasance, and misfeasance by phonies who wanted the titles and the perks of being top HRP officers, but didn’t really want to do the work. That’s right. Next week’s massive losses by Hawaii GOP candidates will transpire NOT because the evidence against the ruling party wasn’t on our side. But because NOBODY actually did their jobs to make the case against Democrats and to organize enough voters who’d be on our side once ballots arrived in the mail. Candidates cannot do this alone, especially in the Aloha State. Even worse, both Hawaii’s GOP and the Hawaii Trump campaign WROTE OFF HAWAII IN 2024. Shocking stuff. Like we said, stay tuned this week.
Finally, with Kamala Harris and mainland Democrats (and their proxies in Hawaii such as Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz) mindlessly accusing Republicans of being ‘fascists’ and ‘Nazis’ and ‘Hitler’, why would top party leaders in Hawaii go out of their way to help Democrats (and the liberal media) to PROVE this assertion by officially promoting antisemitism during the final days of the 2024 campaign which would make Nazis (and Islamists) so very proud ot Tamara McKay’s GOP? How many idiots are in control of the Hawaii Republican Party at this moment? Too many to count.
When RINO Tammy Ash Perkins, after outing herself as an antisemite, again uses the platform of the Maui GOP in order to declare “you can’t trust one word that HIRA puts out and we all know it”, you know she’s been caught red-handed and needs to resign. Sadly, top Hawaii GOP leaders at both the state and county levels have been condoning the rampant antisemitism and tinfoil hat nuttiness long enough. Either that, or they just don’t know any better. There are no good options here except to start from scratch on the morning of November 6th. When you read our next story, you’ll be forced to conclude that 2024 is already over here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Island Democrats are sleeping very well tonight. They know that both Tamara McKay and Shirlene Ostrov have blown a golden opportunity to make inroads. Auwe!
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ANTI-SEMITISM AT HAWAII GOP: This High-Ranking Anti-Israel Nutjob Has to Go!
Kula, Maui – One short day after Hamas’ top terror leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by the Israel Defense Forces on October 16th (and at the same time Hawaii voters began filling out their ballots), Anti-Israel nutjob and apparent Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran sympathizer Tammy Ash Perkins, the head of Maui’s GOP, used the official Hawaii Republican Party communications platform to accuse Israel of committing GENOCIDE after decades of America’s closest regional ally being routinely and violently attacked by well-armed terrorists in Iran, Lebanon and Gaza.
With attacks on Israel continuing and with Israeli hostages still being held, tortured, and slaughtered, It’s not surprising that Tammy Ash Perkins’ horrifying views that Israel is committing genocide are in perfect sync with Kamala Harris, Iran‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, and radicalized terrorists throughout the Middle East. After all, the Hawaii GOP has been overrun with nutjobs and RINOs like Perkins in recent years.
Perhaps it’s also unsurprising that, one week after the Maui GOP officially accused Israel of deliberately killing innocent civilians and criticized the country for taking necessary steps to defend its own citizens from barbaric militants committed to the extermination of Jews and the extinction of Israel, the Executive Committee of the entire Hawaii GOP (led by Tamara McKay and Kaulana Lee) has REFUSED to call for Perkins’ resignation or begin proceedings for her removal. This fact alone speaks volumes about the increasingly dismal state of Republican leadership in the Aloha State.
You might recall how, following the 2020 election disaster, disgraced Hawaii GOP state chair Shirlene Ostrov was forced to resign in shame shortly after the party’s official communications platform promoted an antisemitic Holocaust-denier’s rantings. So, we are left to wonder: WHY is Tammy Perkins, who is personally directing such hateful anti-Israel communications from the official Hawaii GOP platform still on the executive committee of Tamara McKay’s state party? WHY hasn’t she been shown the door, like Ostrov?
The answer is simple. Total nutjobs control Hawaii’s Republican Party. Year after pathetic year. The examples are too numerous. But HIRA News will soon report all of these stories – especially the most recent ones – so folks can understand why Republicans keep losing here in the Aloha State.
IN CLOSING, HERE’S THE OCTOBER SURPRISE FROM THE HAWAII GOP: If you love Hamas, if you love Hezbollah, if you love Iranian-sponsored terrorism and if you HATE Israel, then you’ll love the new Republican Party of Hawaii which, quite publicly, accuses Israel of genocide and bemoans Israel’s right to self-defense against its hostile neighbors. To lend your voice to the new anti-Israel Hawaii GOP, you can contact Maui GOP leader Tammy Ash Perkins at tammyaperkins@protonmail.com or at chair@mauicountygop.com. Or, you can write to her and demand her resignation.
Finally, yes, these nutjobs don’t know how to spell genocide either (Genoside?). But our party’s leadership needs more than just spell-checking. It needs to stop using tinfoil to make hats and stop picking boneheaded liberals as party officers. However, in her defense, Perkins has recently shared credit for her words and actions in the official Hawaii GOP newsletter, writing this: “my spirit guide urged me to take action”. Sadly, with a top party officer providing aid and comfort to the enemies of freedom with false accusations of genocide, that’s all you really need to know about the state of the Hawaii Republican Party (HRP) in 2024. Her spirit guide made her do it. Oy vey!See the official Hawaii GOP communication for yourself by clicking the link below . . .
https://mailchi.mp/mauicountygop/talk-story-6418021?e=1b2f959bb7
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