Honolulu, Hawaii — Liberal Republican and professional politician Gene Ward passed away after clinging to power in a very Biden-like way at the exact same age as Sleepy Joe Biden, 82 years old.  Under state law, the Hawaii Republican Party (HRP) is given the opportunity to prove that it can find three people in Ward’s district of Hawaii Kai who don’t hate America, who don’t have lucrative financial relationships with other politicians, and who don’t support the progressive agenda of Josh Green.  Then, Democrat Governor Josh Green can follow that same state law and choose one of the Hawaii GOP’s three recommendations to represent the nearly 25,000 residents of State House District 18.  The death of Gene Ward was the party’s chance to show every voter in the Aloha State exactly what kind of candidate Republican leaders would choose if they had the chance to zero in on great Republicans to be showcased in this process.

However, HRP failed miserably.  Really?  Yes, party leaders picked three horrible candidates to replace Ward:  an official Josh Green and Democrat Party cheerleader, an unabashed America hating carpetbagger, and someone who makes his living taking money from local politicians from both parties.  Upon doing so, state GOP chair Tamara McKay attempted to put a positive spin on this self-inflicted debacle that her select committee comprised of Lauren Cheape and Diamond Garcia bear total responsibility for:  “Each of these individuals represents the best of what District 18 and the Republican Party have to offer.”

If the ‘best individuals’ are people who support Josh Green’s agenda for Hawaii, have extensive financial relationships with MANY elected officials, and support dividing Hawaii along ethnic lines (and possibly seceding from the USA) constitute the “best” of what HRP has to offer, then we are in deep, deep trouble.  And it’s no wonder island Democrats sleep great at night knowing Republicans represent ZERO threat to their hold on power or to the liberal direction we are headed . . . especially when Republicans are willing to literally hand power right back over to Democrats.  The party and the local media have blacked out and censored this damning information, which HIRA News can now exclusively report to you.

With Tamara McKay and party leaders entrusted with picking the best our party has to offer at this critical moment, let’s get to know the three finalists whittled down from nearly two dozen applicants for this paying job at the State Capitol which the law explicitly states must be from the same political party as Gene Ward, at least until the next election in 2026.

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Topping the list of finalists is Alexander “Alika” Malabey, who locked down his Instagram and X and Facebook accounts so nobody could see his posts and who hid every single post on Facebook except one mentioning Gene Ward’s death.  What could he possibly have to hide?  Why lock down all of his social media accounts?  Why indeed?

Malabey’s official biography says that he had “a 10-year career within the Hawaii State Legislature”.  It also says that, “Within his political career, he served the Legislature as Chief of Staff under Josh Green and Karen Awana.  His experience in political campaigning goes back to 2004, working for candidates such as former vice speaker John Mizuno.”  That’s three ultra-liberal Democrats right there.  Have you ever heard of this guy working to undo the damage to Hawaii he did with Josh Green, Karen Awana and John Mizuno and their nutty progressive policies??  Of course not.  The Hawaii GOP has long been ‘controlled opposition’ – a fake Republican Party controlled by Hawaii Democrats continually looking to infiltrate and control our party so it never creates a problem for the Democrat supermajority.  You can see this with your own eyes.  Malabey spent a decade pushing the liberal Democrat agenda.  He wasn’t just putting stamps on envelopes and answering phones. And that’s why Josh Green’s chief of staff is being actively promoted for Gene Ward’s job by Lauren Cheape, Diamond Garcia and Tamara McKay.  It’s pretty sickening.

Steve Lipscomb, a district resident and the most recent county chair elected to lead the Honolulu County Republican Party, was disqualified from consideration for Gene Ward’s job, as was longtime Republican and district resident Adrienne King.  Instead the McKay committee pushed Malabey ahead in the selection process.  Perhaps Lipscomb and King didn’t do enough to help Democrats like Malabey did?  And neither did former Sam Slom aide Julie Sparks, who also got passed over by the committee in favor of a Democrat.

When it comes to residency, party records indicate that Malabey recently has been registered at multiple addresses in the Kalihi area, which is also a far cry from Hawaii Kai.  Moreover, Malabey’s company Visionary Real Estate Inspections LLC is reported online as being located in a townhouse on Makakilo in Kapolei.  Not exactly a location for a business.  More like a home business.  Does he actually live in West Oahu rather than in East Honolulu?  Heck, maybe he used to live in Hawaii Kai at some point.  Maybe he grew up there.  But his home business in Makakilo seems to be 90 minutes in rush hour traffic from Ward’s district in Hawaii Kai.  Did he merely change his voter registration to qualify at the same time he locked down his social media accounts?

If not for a liberal blogger who recorded some of Malabey’s posts, we’d have no idea that he is one of those woke, anti-science telescope haters who opposes TMT.  Although his preferred name on his locked down Facebook profile should have been an obvious clue:  “Alexander Alika Makanahiwahiwamaikalanililoa Malabey”.

Surely, among the 25,000 who reside in Ward’s East Honolulu district, there must be someone who hasn’t helped destroy Hawaii by devoting a decade of his or her life by helping to advance the destructive political agenda of flaming liberals like Josh Green, John Mizuno and Karen Awana?  Is the Hawaii GOP really trying to destroy itself by handing the reins to Democrats?  Never forget that HRP vouched for Beth Fukumoto, Aaron “Ling” Johanson, Kanani Souza, Kym Marcos Pine, Charles Djou, and a host of other RINOs who later became Democrats.  Never forget that illegal immigration in Hawaii was supported UNANIMOUSLY by the Republican members of the House, including Gene Ward, Andria Tupola, Lauren Cheape, Beth Fukumoto and others whom HRP vouched for again and again as REAL Republicans.  This Hawaii GOP simply cannot be trusted.

PAYBACK???:  Perhaps Mr. Malabey’s substantial support of Democrats (and his apparent residency in far off West Oahu) is being overlooked by the Hawaii GOP because Mr. Malabey’s home office also serves as a headquarters for his political consulting business, dba Malabey Consulting & Production Services LLC, which received $7,000 from RINO Lynn Finnegan’s failed campaign for lieutenant governor back in 2010 when Malabey’s operation was located in the back of Palolo valley near Kaimuki, according to records provided by the State Campaign Spending Commission.  Finnegan has been working as a political operative behind the scenes (pictured very recently with Crooked Maryann “Mele” Songsong, USA-hater Samantha Decorte and identity politics practitioner Diamond “I’m Hawaiian and I Vote” Garcia), ever since resigning from disgrace as HRP state chair a few years ago.  Hawaii politics is all about “who you know”.  And RINOs like Lynn Finnegan and her pals are no different than ruling Democrats when it comes to backscratching.  They’ve proven this time and time again.

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Let’s get to know the second of three candidates pushed by the Hawaii GOP’s search committee.  Tera Malia Gregory is no fan of the United States of America.  Endorsed by the pro-Tamara McKay ‘Surfing4Truth’ faction on its slate at the county convention a few weeks ago for a regional vice-chair position at the Honolulu County GOP, Ms. Gregory is the social media fitness influencer who was favored over Gene Ward’s own daughter, attorney Johanna Ward, to take Ward’s place in the legislature in order to make room on HRP’s short list of three candidates, alongside Josh Green’s chief of staff and Democrat operative Mr. Malabey.

What’s interesting about Ms. Gregory (and what probably excited McKay, Diamond Garcia and Surfing4Truth about her) is that the finalist for Ward’s position is a sovereignty activist nutjob who believes Hawaii is still a kingdom under occupation by the USA and wants to restore a single-ethnicity monarchy to govern Hawaii.  Interestingly, she doesn’t believe Hawaii is even a state, but still wants to serve in the 50th state’s government in order to advance her radical and uninformed woke agenda.

Using the unmistakable hashtag #hawaiiansovereignty on her Instagram account @taramaliafitness, Ms. Gregory makes clear that she wants to exploit the Bill Clinton apology resolution (pushed forward more than 30 years ago by woke, pandering, mindless libtards and revisionist history hacks, including Patsy Mink, Neil Abercrombie, Dan Inouye, and Dan Akaka) for “leverage” in order to pursue “Native Hawaiian rights, sovereignty, and the restoration of lands . . . for Native Hawaiian self-determination,” notwithstanding the fact that Hawaii was officially a multiethnic place which actively welcomed immigration from around the world for more than 50 years BEFORE the so-called overthrow in 1893 which merely replaced one type of government with another; eventually resulting in statehood supported by 94% of Hawaii voters in 1959.

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Yes, Hawaii was officially a multiethnic society before the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893. That means EVERYONE from every ethnicity in Hawaii had a stake in the government, not just part-Hawaiians.  The Hawaiian monarchy actively encouraged this diversity by establishing a constitutional monarchy in 1840 that provided equal voting rights regardless of race, gender, or wealth. By the 1890s, Hawaii’s population was a mix of Native Hawaiians and immigrants from various countries, including China, Japan, and Portugal.  As Kamehemeha III proclaimed, “We are all of one blood”.  But that’s not good enough for Ms. Gregory or her zealots who see non-part-Hawaiians as unwelcome transplants living in a ‘fake state’ rather than an independent third world monarchy run by one ethnic group and one ethnic group only.  As a part-Hawaiian, she says it’s a priority to reclaim land stolen by America from the Hawaiian kingdom for control by one ethnic group alone.  So much for Hawaii being a melting pot and for being ‘of one blood’.

The highly radicalized Ms. Gregory posts hate-filled rants, such as:  “The wrongful overthrow of the Hawaiian people has always been about eliminating the IDENTITY, CULTURE, LANGUAGE and RIGHT TO EXIST as HAWAIIANS … uncompromised.”  Apparently, that’s the woke attitude and sovereignty separatist direction which the Hawaii GOP’s RINO leaders have decided is the way to go in 2025, whereby total destruction of our globally-envied melting pot is required in order to spread hate, to abandon pluralism, and to embrace the reversion to kings, queens, palaces and ‘sustainable’ subsistence living, as well as justify creating a government and welfare state exclusively for all part-Hawaiians as if they are genetically incapable of thriving in the 21st century.  Otherwise, why else would the Hawaii GOP choose an anti-American sovereignty nutjob over all the other qualified pro-USA candidates who were crossed off during the selection process?  Such nonsense has no place in a real political party.

FEUDALISM FOR HAWAII:  Still don’t believe Ms. Gregory is a nutjob who wants to revert to a feudal system like in the olden days of a much lower standard of living for the people of Hawaii?  Well, she recently wrote these words on her Instagram account:  “The only thing I like more than a capitalistic society is a Feudal Government in which Bartering is the way people thrive, everyone living off the land is the culture and the way of the people. Contentment and having everything we need. Hence why I love Hawaii and being Hawaiian.”  Do Republicans in Hawaii in 2025 (or any residents of Hawaii Kai) really want Hawaii to become an independent country that leaves the USA and reverts to a feudal system so we can see our standard of living nosedive in order that this fitness influencer can drag us all down into her twisted woke fantasy about living in old Hawaii before the missionaries arrived on these shores hundreds of years ago? Gene Ward was a leftist.  But Tara Malia Gregory’s desire to return to a life of feudalism is off the rails; rather like someone reading The Communist Manifesto and thinking that everything can and should be free.  Bartering and living off the land under a Feudal Government is what SHE wants for YOU and your family.  Yes, she seems to be completely braindead.

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Other than being a nutjob, WHY pick a carpetbagger to replace Gene Ward?  According to Ms. Gregory, she meets the definition of a carpetbagger in comparison to the overlooked candidates reviewed by the HRP selection committee.

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On her same Instagram page, Gregory posted recently:  “A year ago I left my life of 7 years as a TEXAN, sold everything I had in Frisco, Texas aside from two suitcases & a laptop backpack, and moved back to Hawai’i.”  Somehow, in a state which highly values having deep roots in the community, HRP’s selection committee under Tamara McKay, Diamond Garcia, and Lauren Cheape decided that all of the other candidates who got disqualified from making the final list of three had apparently lived in Hawaii Kai too long to be considered.  Maybe, again, this is the kind of woke, ethnicity-obsessed thinking which appeals to the likes of Surfing4Truth, Tamara McKay, Diamond Garcia, and Lauren Cheape?

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Finally, let’s take a look at candidate #3 selected by Tamara McKay’s committee, Michel “Joe” Gedeon.  Mr. Gedeon has existing business relationships with dozens of state politicians, with financial transactions for his company from these and other politicians potentially riding on his every vote at the State Capitol.  Vote the right way, get more business from your co-workers.  Vote the wrong way, then Gedeon will surely LOSE BUSINESS from these state politicians.  Reward friends.  Punish enemies.  Politics hasn’t changed.

His company JPG Hawaii makes a fortune off of Democrat politicians by producing campaign signs and banners for the likes of Colleen Hanabusa and Ty Cullen and Matt Lopresti and Rick Blangiardi and Tyler Dos Santos-Tam and Cedric Gates and Micah Aiu and Romy Cachola and Sharon Har and Glenn Wakai and Mark Hashem and Ryan Yamane and Clayton Hee and Vicky Cayetano and Daniel Holt and Tina Grandinetti and Sherry Menor-McNamara and Jarrett Keohokalole and Rachele Lamosao and Kathy Feldman and Bennette Misalucha and Kalei Akaka and Shawn Richey and Jackson Sayama and Kimo Alameda and Henry Aquino and Jamaica Cullen.  You can confirm this for yourself at the website for the State Campaign Spending Commission.

Likewise, in addition to the fortune raked in by Gegeon’s company JPG Hawaii from so many Democrats, Gedeon’s company realized tens of thousands of dollars from Gene Ward task force members Lauren Cheape (~$6,250) and Diamond Garcia (~$10,000), along with closely aligned RINO politicians such as Val Okimoto (~$12,500) Andria Tupola (~$45,000) and a few of Tupola’s consulting company clients Makua Rothman (~$9,500), Keone Simon (~$10,750), and Megan Kau (~$22,000).  Yep, JPG Hawaii can’t afford to upset so many political clients should Michel “Joe” Gedeon not do their bidding at the State Capitol.  That’s the price of wanting to be a ‘community celebrity’ and, hopefully, someday becoming considered a “statesman” like Gene Ward after decades of accomplishing virtually nothing.

Arguably, these politicians hope to find a personally and professionally loyal political puppet for their caucus and help in future campaigns.  Whether Michel “Joe” Gedeon knows it or not, he is merely a pawn in Hawaii’s game of politics, in which money is as essential as mother’s milk is to a baby.  Gedeon’s lucrative financial relationships with so many elected Democrats and Republicans are AT RISK if he doesn’t play the game the way his paying customers want the game played.  Clearly, this conflict of interest sets up the taxpayers of Hawaii Kai for getting screwed.  And the Hawaii GOP selection committee knows it, just as Josh Green knows it.  Hawaii News Now reports that Gedeon “has supported more than 80 political campaigns through strategic branding and grassroots engagement.”  So WHY would somebody as completely conflicted financially and politically as Joe Gedeon – somebody already beholden to a giant roster of current politicians AND their special interest donors in order to procure future business for his company – make it onto HRP’s final selection list?  Why indeed?!?

ANOTHER CARPETBAGGER?:   Campaign donation records show Gedeon living in Manoa, in the Ala Moana area as well as in Kaimuki.  No records found by HIRA News show Gedeon living in Hawaii Kai during the past two decades that Gene Ward represented the district.  Reportedly, Gedeon used to live in Hawaii Kai with his mommy and daddy and has stated to others that he plans to move back to Hawaii Kai so he can qualify for the state house job.

Raising even more eyebrows recently, Gedeon reportedly claimed at a Rotary meeting that Gene Ward explicitly wanted him to take his place.  That seems quite dubious, as many people are aware of the letter Ward gave to Josh Green with his own recommended candidates to replace him.  Joe Gedeon’s name was not listed in that letter, according to HIRA sources.  According to Governor Green’s office, those three names given to Green directly by Ward include Johanna Ward, Chelsea Chae, and Elizabeth Bishop, all of whom were ignored by HRP’s selection committee when putting its own final roster together for Josh Green containing only the three names discussed above.  Just how rigged and/or flawed was this selection process if not a single one of Ward’s own choices were given the green light by his party?  Maybe, just maybe, Gedeon’s ascension past more qualified candidates to replace Gene Ward stems from his association with the professional, perennial loser RINO Duke Aiona, one whose defunct and unlistenable radio show Gedeon worked as a “co-producer and contributor”.  This would mean that the old guard RINOs on McKay’s selection committee from the lame Finnegan/Aiona wing of the party got to pick two of the three candidates (Malabey and Gedeon) while the phony patriots from Surfing4Truth got to pick just one (Gregory).

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Let’s cut to the chase.  None of these three people picked to fill the vacancy caused by Gene Ward’s death have any record of serious conservative activism addressing all of Hawaii’s serious Democrat caused and taxpayer suffocating problems.  Clearly, when Tamara McKay promises that these three represent the “best of what District 18 and the Republican Party have to offer”, you’d be forced to conclude that the pickings are much slimmer than HIRA News knows they really were.

Josh Green will be hard pressed to pick one of these three because they are equally vulnerable to attack by the Democrats who have wanted to take Gene Ward’s seat for a long time.  Imagine how Democrats will feel once getting a “D” elected in the most Republican district on Oahu?  Of course, as the information exposed above clearly shows, the moment any of these three get picked by Josh Green, the Democrats will have picked up a seat for addition to their supermajority.  Whether it’s the America hater, the financially conflicted campaign signmaker, or Josh Green’s own lackey, Democrats WIN.  Period.

ZERO MEDIA SCRUTINY + ZERO PARTY TRANSPARENCY:  Finally, it should be noted that NONE of the information presented herein was provided to Republicans by the Hawaii GOP nor was it provided by Hawaii News Now or any of the news services covering the story of picking Gene Ward’s replacement.  If a shallow dive into these candidates by HIRA News produces such disqualifying information about these three candidates, imagine JUST HOW BAD the information being sat on by Tamara McKay, Diamond Garcia and Lauren Cheape must be for them to make sure you don’t hear anything but sunshine and rainbows about Malabey, Gedeon and Gregory.  Yes, liberals in the media and liberals at HRP are gaslighting the residents of Hawaii Kai, the membership of the Hawaii GOP, and taxpayers statewide.  Josh Green is sleeping very well tonight thanks to the three candidates served up to the Democratic governor on a silver platter.

You may ask, “How could the selection committee overlook such disqualifying information and advance these candidates to the final round?”  What other disqualifying information is being suppressed during this process?  Why didn’t this process come to a halt after the committee found the same information easily dug up by HIRA News?  And when it’s already too late, what more will come out about the chosen one to replace Ward?  Prepare yourself now for the chosen individual’s voting record at the State Capitol.  It won’t be pretty.

If things are this bad based on what we found out, just imagine what we don’t know, how bad it really is and what will never be told.  Vetting is extremely important work.  Recall that HRP under both Lynn Finnegan and Shirlene Ostrov vouched repeatedly for Kanani Souza.  And now, Republicans almost universally want fake Republican Kristen “Kanani” Souza gone from her seat in the State House representing Makakilo and Kapolei.  The same goes for Ewa Beach thug and Mufi Hannemann disciple Kurt Fevella who, after being vouched for by HRP, has turned out to be a lunatic leftist and a race-baiting slob.  The same goes for Trump hater and progressive sycophant Beth Fukumoto; who once served as Gene Ward’s boss as Republican minority leader, and now devotes her time being a critic of the GOP from her perch at Civil Beat where this week she attacked Trump’s proposal to require Voter ID in order to register to vote.  Put Fukumoto down as HRP Vetting Failure #9,245.  And don’t forget that Tamara McKay recently expressed her desire for Democrat Mike Gabbard to run for governor in 2026 as a Republican, notwithstanding Mike Gabbard’s decades of support at the State Capitol for destructive liberal policies which have routinely injured the working and middle class in Hawaii.  “But he’s Tulsi’s dad!”  Seriously, Tamara?  Check party-switcher Mike Gabbard’s actual voting record since he bailed on the GOP and went full Democrat.  Auwe!

Before HRP paves the way to launching any candidate for public office with a paying job or even an unpaid party office, we should expect to have watched them excel as hard working and preferably successful advocates for the conservative agenda embraced by REAL Republicans.  Sadly, none of these three candidates to replace Ward are known for helping defeat Democrats or their agenda.  Meanwhile, several overlooked candidates from the original list DID have such qualifications, but apparently lacked the requisite America hatred, the conflicts of interest, and lacked the longstanding, demonstrated loyalty to the Democrat agenda.  Hence the three who were chosen.

QUESTION OF THE DAY:  Is the Hawaii GOP duping its members yet again by exploiting the death of RINO Gene Ward to install more phony Republicans into the Hawaii State Legislature?

Sadly, the answer is a resounding YES, the deliberate duping is in full swing . . . and the manipulating of the newly-concocted and highly-rigged selection process is being knowingly and actively coordinated by BOTH factions currently competing for control of the Hawaii Republican Party (HRP), “the establishment” and “the (fake) patriots”.  It’s appalling to realize that one or both of these factions will control HRP for another two years once the state convention takes place next month.  Yes, Josh Green will sleep soundly, as will Mazie Hirono, Brian Schatz, Jill Tokuda, and Ed Case.

But now, by law, Josh Green gets to pick one of these three people and call on him or her to be sworn in to state office. The selection of the next Republican representative of Hawaii Kai has set our party on course for self-destruction as we endure another humiliating and wrongheaded defeat by picking the wrong people, including a Josh Green Democrat, a radicalized Hawaiian sovereignty nutjob, and someone with clear conflicts of interest personified.  Bizarre choices indeed.  Not the message to send voters statewide.  These are NOT “the best the party has to offer”.  Not by a long shot.

Instead, these are the kind of “Republicans” that our party and its leaders want to promote through gaslighting and serious omissions of background on three very poorly selected individuals.  These are the final three who survived Tamara’s ‘process’ from the original 13 candidates and THEIR NAMES HAVE ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED TO GOVERNOR JOSH GREEN.  In other words, it’s game over for taxpayers as the State House just got worse no matter who gets picked.  Tamara McKay, Diamond Garcia and Lauren Cheape have severely shafted Republicans after Gene Ward already did so by voting like a RINO for decades down at the State Capitol, even though supposedly representing one of the most “Republican” districts in the entire state.  Based on what we’ve witnessed in the past few weeks, there is a FAKE organization continuing to masquerade as Hawaii’s Republican Party, with the help of the local news media.  What’s even worse is that Josh Green’s control of this phony Hawai’i GOP seems more assured than ever.  Controlled opposition right before our eyes.  Auwe!

GENE WARD was ‘inspired’ by liberal Democrat Josh Green’s inauguration as governor – “The best I’ve ever witnessed.” Maybe Gene Ward would have wanted Josh Green to install someone friendly to the liberal cause?  Maybe these three candidates are just what the doctor (Dr. Green) ordered?!?