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HAS THE US OCCUPATION OF HAWAI`I WORKED?

Honolulu Civil Beat - May 14, 2020 - By Neal Milner

As far as Hawai`i is concerned, when it comes to dealing with coronavirus, Gov. David Ige is in a class by himself.

That class? Bottom of the barrel.

First, I’ll show you just how bad the governor looks on the COVID-19 issue.

But then I am going to show how this low rating is hardly about the virus at all. It is really about the decadence of Hawai`i’s politics.

According to a large national survey, no governor has a lower public approval rating for handling the virus than Ige does.

The average governor approval rating for handling the pandemic is 66%, compared to Trump’s 44%, and Ige’s rating of 39%.

Probably 12% of that 22% difference between the president and the average governor’s approval occurred during the last few weeks.

It’s unlikely that our governor has received any bump at all.

Unlike Hawai`i, Wisconsin and Michigan are contentiously partisan states with considerably higher coronavirus rates than Hawaii and where opposition to the respective governors has dwarfed anything here.

Yet the Michigan governor’s approval (63%) and Wisconsin’s (58%) are both far ahead of Ige.

Only 55% of people in Hawai`i feel that the state is doing a good job handling the situation. That’s the lowest percentage in the nation.

OK, that’s the surface side that leads you to focus on Ige’s pandemic incompetence. That focus on his virus performance is too narrow.

It’s hard to imagine that Governor Ige’s coronavirus pluses and minuses, goof-ups or successes are all that much different than what the other governors have done.

Ige is ranked so low on pandemic management because he is an avatar for a form of governing that’s as much a part of this state as shower trees and feral chickens.

It is also a form of government that the public now considers unworthy of its trust and support.

And there are data to prove it.

Ige’s 39% approval rating is nothing new. His approval rating has pretty much always lingered in the 30s — low and close to Trump’s. He’s also been rated the nation’s worst governor in the past.

It is a ceiling that the public is not willing to let him pass because the public has become so disaffected with Hawai`i’s state government as a whole.

A 2017 University of Hawai`i Center for Public Policy poll asked the question a different way, but with comparable results. Only 19% said Ige was doing an excellent or good job, while 36% rated his work as fair or poor.

But more significantly, in that same 2017 poll close to 40% said the state could seldom or never be trusted to do the right thing, and only 9% said that state government is run for the benefit of the people.

Now, think about the public’s take on the governor’s handling of the coronavirus crisis in terms of this pervasive sense that state government overall is a bumbling, stumbling, untrustworthy mess.

In other words, see the governor’s handling of the virus through the public’s lens of “same old, same old.”

That perception looks like this:

Of course the coronavirus response has been far from business-as-usual in so many ways.

But there also has been a kind of state government-esque, go-by-the book quality to it: we are moving cautiously; sticking to the protocols. The team is in place.

The masters of disaster. Sensible leaders doing sensible things.

At least that is the governor’s mantra. It’s also the mantra on steroids of Department of Health head Bruce Anderson, first in regard to testing and now contact tracing.

Sensible, sensible, everything is sensible.

Sensible — on the surface. But beneath the surface, where the public lives, it is not sensible at all, exemplifying just another day in the life of historically crappy state government. Worthy of our cynicism, not our approval.

As a result, it is easy to view the state’s failure to pay unemployment benefits on time as not simply a COVID-19 problem but rather as the tip of an iceberg of benefits mismanagement and technical infrastructure problems that have plagued Hawai`i forever.

Which, by the way, the governor promised to fix.

And boom! goes the cynicism.

It should not surprise us that there is such public disappointment and distaste for Hawai`i’s state government. Admit it, folks. What those polls show is the way you typically talk about it. And yet publicly we let “sensible” conceal this longstanding incompetence.

Hawai`i has a tepid sort of politics, low voter turnout, an extremely weak Republican Party and a sense among elites that politics is more about managing than mobilizing. The public’s basic disgust and discouragement get lost in this sensibleness shuffle.
An historically rooted combination of malaise, pessimism and being pissed off. People think about the Thirty Meter Telescope when they assess the governor’s coronavirus response.

Hawai`i has become decadent. That’s not the term most of us would use, but see how close Hawaii is to the way Ross Douthat describes decadence in his recent book.

Decadence, he says, “is a very active time, full of deep concerns, but peculiarly restless, for it sees no clear lines of advance. … Institutions function painfully. Repetition and frustration are the intolerable result.”

“When people accept futility and the absurd as normal,” Douthat goes on to say, “the culture is decadent.”

It’s impossible to transform a place if futility and absurdity are the norms.
Which is another way of describing why the public reacts so negatively to David Ige.

He did not create these norms, but in the public’s view, he certainly reflects and protects them.

There is a lot of talk about the need to transform Hawai`i in the pandemic’s aftermath. Fine, but understand that government is going to play a large role in this. Bad government, bad transformation.

So any kind of significant change is going to require a public level of confidence that futility and absurdity are no longer the best ways to describe Hawai`i’s government at work.`

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"WHY DAVID IGE LIED ABOUT MAUNA KEA"

Why Did David Ige Lie About Mauna Kea Protectors In His News Conference Last Week?

Is It Something He Doesnʻt Want You To Notice That Hiding In Plain Sight?

Something That If Everyone Saw It Would Put Him Out Of A Job?

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HAS THE ILLEGAL US OCCUPATION OF HAWAI`I WORKED?
A&B ALLOWED TO STEAL MAUI FARMS WATER 

MauiTimes.com

Hawai`i Governor David Ige announced that he would sign House Bill 2501 
“with reservations,” which means Alexander & Baldwin (A&B) can continue its century-old practice of diverting East Maui water.... 

This is despite A&B’s announcement earlier this year that they would close the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar plantation on Maui.

Reaction to the announcement from environmentalists was swift and brutal. 

“Governor Ige failed to achieve the right balance in this situation,” said Marti Townsend, Director for the Sierra Club of Hawai`i, in a June 27 news release. 

“His decision unnecessarily favors profit-driven water diversions above the best interests of the public. 

Our laws are written to ensure that our water is held in trust for everyone’s benefit. The Ige Administration should follow those laws, not change them to benefit those that divert public water for private gain, while harming the people and our environment.”

In her news release, Townsend also noted that a court ruled in January that the state Department of Land and Natural Resources “had improperly ‘held over’ A&B’s permits for nearly 3 decades in violation of state law....”

WHY WOULD DAVID IGE SUPPORT TMT 
IN HIS STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS?

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"WILL DAVID IGE SET HAWAI`I FREE?"

David Ige Recently Made An Amazing Announcement About Hawai`iʻs Future. 

He Wants To Free Hawai`i From Something Its Long Been Dependent On.

Could This Lead To De-Occupation Of Hawai`i By The US? 

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IF DAVID IGE RESPECTS HAWAI`IʻS "HOST CULTURE," WHY IS HE AT NATIONAL GUARD TRAINING TO ARREST MAUNA KEA PROTECTORS?

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"HOST CULTURE HOGWASH"

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Whatʻs Behind Hawai`iʻs Politicians Wanting To Pay The “Host Culture” So Much Respect?

Ever Wonder Why They Mention The Host But Never Say Who The Guest Is?

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"IGEʻS MAUNA MANIPULATION"

Just Like Any Other Politician, He Wants To Sound Like Heʻs Fair To Everyone.

Thatʻs What He Was Hoping Youʻd Believe At His Mauna Kea TMT Announcement.

But Thereʻs Only One Master To Which Hawai`i Fake State Governor David Ige Answers.

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IGE - US FEDS SHOULD NOT RUSH HAWAIIANS ON TRIBE

Associated Press - February 27, 2015

While in Washington, Hawai`i governor David Ige met with Sally Jewell, the secretary of the interior, who said the department is working on sorting out legal issues regarding whether Native Hawaiians could be federally recognized.

"I had expressed to her that I believe that it's very important that the Native Hawaiian community be given the time to determine what the nature of their sovereign nation should be," Ige said.

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"ICKY IGEʻS DUMB MOVE"

New Hawai`i Fake State Governor David Ige Has Done Something Stupid. 

He Wants A Developer To Head Hawai`iʻs Dept. Of Land & Natural Resources. 

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