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HANNEMANN’S SIX EXECUTIONERS: Mufi’s Cousin Art Prepares to Conduct Trials and Purges
Honolulu, Hawaii – More details are emerging about how the new leaders of Hawaii’s distant second place political party intend to seek retribution on perceived internal enemies at the now homeless party which only meets via Zoom meetings since losing its longtime headquarters a year ago. Yes, a circular firing squad is how the tiny organization’s donor dollars and precious campaign time are being spent.
As HIRA News just reported on Monday, the Hawaii GOP’s state chair Art Hannemann (Mufi’s cousin) is pushing forward with a plan to launch a “Disciplinary Committee” to conduct actual trials of party officers and party members who are not to the liking of the old guard establishment which recently retook control of the party after nearly two years in the wilderness.
While such news probably helps Democrats to sleep even better at night here in the islands, the very first meeting is being held TONIGHT according to our source.
We are sworn to secrecy. But our source says it’s one of the six Disciplinary Committee members that was overheard discussing their new role in the party with glee, who are in no particular order:
NEW HAWAII GOP DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE
a.k.a. “The Six Executioners”
Sylvie Madison
Larie Manutai
Rich Harper
Scott Smart
Dalene McCormick
Steve Bond
Art Hannemann flunkie Boyd Ready will be on hand to tell them what to do, what to think, and how to vote. Most importantly, Mr. Ready will help select the targets for Hannemann’s purge. As we’ve previously reported, immediate past state chair Tamara McKay and her supporters are at the top of the list for removal or, as they like to say, “discipline”.
Mind you, this party which you’d expect would spend some time between elections putting Josh Green, Mazie Hirono, Brian Schatz, Jill Tokuda, Ed Case and other Democrats on trial so that the public might make different choices when their ballots arrive in the mail. However, ousting Democrats is NOT the priority. As time gets closer to the 2026 election, ousting Republicans IS what truly matters to Mufi’s cousin.
This move comes after Art Hannemann and three others were publicly censured in recent months; with those censures still posted on the official website for the Honolulu County GOP: http://www.OahuGOP.com. Art and his enforcers have been trying to get those censures taken down ever since they went up on that county website. But it looks like they’ll need to sick the Disciplinary Committee on Oahu county chairman Nolan Chang and purge him from the party in order to sanitize the website and maybe replace those censures with a prominent “Nolan Chang is no longer associated with the Hawaii GOP” message for all to read.
Needless to say, what is the true purpose of a political party but an audition for the public to see how its members would run the government if given the chance. Putting enemies on trial is probably not what island voters crave in their politicians with so many very real problems. And Hawaii voters probably won’t be impressed by GOP priorities in Hawaii while the cost of living continues to spiral out of control and politicians care more about posting selfies on social media than about delivering real victories for struggling taxpayers.
Ultimately, after only three months in control of the Hawaii GOP, you can clearly see the REAL priorities of Art Hannemann’s new regime as they explicitly promised to have advertising running for the past two months and spend $1 Million between now and the end of 2025 turning the Hawaii GOP into a political juggernaut which raised $2 Million during the same six month period. But, instead they totally lied. There’s no advertising. There’s no case being made for better leadership and real solutions vis-a-vis the Democrat supermajority. There’s no ‘unity’ in the party. Instead, we just see lots of time spent infighting and now purging. Helping to pervert priorities, GOP politicians like Lauren Matsumoto, Diamond Garcia, Garner Shimizu, and Samantha DeCorte attend party meetings and blindly vote in support of Hannemann’s every move.
Fortunately, this party is leaky, so we have information to share. Unfortunately, the party is also sinking, so it’s just more bad news all around. There’s still a $750,000 lawsuit against the party by the convicted felon mentioned earlier. And Hannemann did promise the judge in an unsolicited communication that the new Hawaii GOP would discipline those responsible for discussing that plaintiff’s criminal record.
The BIG QUESTION arising from this sudden interest in ‘justice’ is this: If this party knows that Robert’s Rules of Order calls for hearings and trials to take place whenever the membership of a party member is on the line, where was any committee before under some of these same recycled party leaders? Heck, Art’s right hand thug Shirlene Ostrov ran over justice repeatedly during her two terms as state chair before she resigned over allegations of anti-Semitism (and her embrace of Capitol rioter Nick Ochs). AND NOW SHE’S BACK — HANDPICKED BY HANNEMANN. Ostrov was directly involved in two money laundering scandals with party funds. She even fired her own executive committee for not going along with her insane agenda; later bringing them back into the fold when it was too late to prevent the 2018 election disaster. And Ostrov unilaterally banned the party from protesting failed Democrat policies while using her position as state chair to support liberal politicians and even an illegal noncitizen for state office.
Will the Discipline Committee start with Ostrov? Probably not. But the selective enforcement and selective use of a ‘just process’ casts doubt on any possible good reason for what Hannemann, Boyd Ready and the Six Executioners are planning to do in the days, weeks, and months ahead. Auwe!
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