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By ddepledge
President Obama has stepped up with an e-mail appeal to help state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa in her rematch against U.S. Rep. Charles Djou, R-Hawaii, in urban Honolulu’s 1st Congressional District in November.
National Democrats have circled the traditionally Democratic district as a potential pick-up after Djou claimed it in a May special election to fill out the remaining term of former U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie.
From the Hawaii-born president:
In just 20 months, this movement has accomplished a tremendous amount.
But we couldn’t have done it without the Democrats in Congress who were willing to take a stand and fight for policies that would move America forward.
And with so much still left to be done, and too many families struggling to get by, we need to keep America moving forward — which means I need you to support Colleen Hanabusa for Congress.
Just like in 2008, you can make the difference this year.
You can go door to door to ask folks to support Colleen. You can make calls to voters in your area, and make sure they get to the polls. And you can spread the word about the importance of voting for Colleen Hanabusa to your family, friends, and neighbors.
Click here to join Colleen’s campaign.
With so much at stake right now, we cannot afford to let up — for one minute or one election.
With your help we developed our Vote 2010 strategy — and with your help, we’ll make sure to send Colleen Hanabusa to Washington to fight for you and your district, Hawaii’s 1st.
If Republicans win in November, their agenda is simple: take us backward to the failed policies of the last decade.
They would seek to repeal all the work we’ve done, and try to stop us from doing more.
They’ll fight to repeal health insurance reform that is ensuring a family with a sick child doesn’t worry about an insurance company denying them care when they need it most.
They’ll do everything they can to repeal Wall Street reform that puts you, the consumer, first and prevents big banks from irresponsibly gambling with our savings ever again.
And they’ll work to block our efforts to jump-start a clean-energy economy, reform our broken immigration system, and get more Americans back to work.
We cannot let that happen, and that’s why we all need to fight to get Colleen Hanabusa to Washington, to keep America — and Hawaii — moving forward:
Sign up to show your support for Colleen:
Political Radar
September 25th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
I think Hawaii is about the last state in the Union where an e-mail from Obama is actually welcomed by Democrat candidates. He’s become persona non grata in just about every other race.
I had to laugh at the comment about walking door to door and asking for Colleen’s support:
Does the president know that if Colleen were to go door to door in her own neighborhood where she lives, she’d find everyone wasn’t able to vote for her because she doesn’t live in the district she’s running for?
September 26th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Obama will lose his home district after throwing his weight into the battle to save it. Time for all Democrats to sign up with the Clinton 2012 bandwagon.
September 26th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Two comments = utter nonsense! Wishful closed-minded Republican thinking.
September 26th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
This is totally ridiculous. I have lost all faith in President Obama
September 27th, 2010 at 12:08 am
What makes this even funnier is how Obama in the special election was calling for Hawaii to ditch Hanabusa and back Case:
(From an Politico article:)
“The bottom line is that with a split-Democratic vote, this congressional (seat) is more likely than not to fall into Republican hands,” wrote Paul Harstad and Mike Kulisheck, of Harstad Strategic Research Inc., a Colorado based firm.
“Ed Case is the only candidate who can beat Charles Djou in this multi-candidate special election in May.”
A national Democratic strategist, speaking privately, said the DNC poll and the memo reflected White House thinking about the campaign.
National Democrats have considered backing Case over Hanabusa and, behind-the-scenes, have urged Hanabusa’s supporters to convince her to step aside.
The White House’s political staff, according to a local Democratic strategist familiar with the conversations, has applied pressure to get U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye and U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka — who have endorsed Hanabusa — to ease up on their support.