NOTES - TITO MONTES

1. Montes would oppose HB444.
See Honolulu Star-Advertiser 2010 Candidate Survey.

http://elections.staradvertiser.com//cifw/election10/main/index/candidate/TYGBXZ

Montes is a staunch protector of the sanctity of marriage.

http://www.titoforsenate.com/candidate_comparison.html

2. Montes is a “defender of the sanctity of human life.”

http://titoforsenate.com/candidate_comparison.html

Montes is against forcing religious hospitals offering emergency contraceptives to sexually assaulted victims.
See Hawaii Family Forum 2010 Survey.

http://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/documents/candidatesprimary2010lettersize.pdf

3. Montes is against physician-assisted suicide.
See Hawaii Family Forum 2010 Survey.

http://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/documents/candidatesprimary2010lettersize.pdf

4. Montes opposes Espero’s plan to open marijuana stores in neighborhoods like Ewa Beach and Waipahu. Further, Montes supports laws against the trafficking, the selling, the purchasing, the processing and consumption of illegal drugs, which are a scourge to society and a harm to families and individuals. [Protect Our Keiki interview with candidate Tito Montes]]

5. Montes: “I am against increasing the GET. The GET is a very deceptive tax. It applies to food, rent, medicine, and services, and the tax is applied at multiple levels. This multiple level taxing is called a "pyramiding effect". This makes everything we buy much more expensive. The GET is also a very regressive tax, meaning when this tax is raised, it hurts low and middle income families the most.”

http://elections.staradvertiser.com//cifw/election10/main/index/candidate/TYGBXZ

NOTES - WILLIE ESPERO

6. During the last legislative session (2009), Espero voted IN FAVOR of Bill 444. [And in 2010, Espero voted IN FAVOR of the measure TWICE.]

http://www.kitv.com/politics/22316840/detail.html

State Sen. Will Espero, D-20th (`Ewa Beach, Waipahu), is passing around a new 311-page draft of a civil-unions bill. “With this measure,” Espero writes, “we can support civil unions and traditional marriage." Espero said he has had conversations with other lawmakers and believes there is a desire to salvage the civil-unions bill. He believes it is a significant step towards (gay marriage).

http://thenotebook.honadvblogs.com/2009/04/02/311-pages/

Along with the proposal from gay rights advocates, state Sen. Will Espero, D-20th ('Ewa Beach, Waipahu), had suggested expanding some of the rights same-sex partners have under the state's reciprocal beneficiaries law. State Senator Robert Bunda concluded that Espero's proposal was too close to gay marriage and that Espero's "eleventh-hour attempt to resuscitate the bill is damaging to public confidence in the integrity of the process."

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Apr/10/ln/hawaii904100375.html

There was an amendment offered last week by state Sen. Will Espero, D-20th ('Ewa Beach, Waipahu), to expand the rights same-sex partners now have under the state's reciprocal beneficiaries law. Espero's amendment would create a new civil-unions section of state law with the existing rights available through reciprocal beneficiaries, along with dozens more now available only to married couples. [reprint of Derrick DePledge's 2009 Advertiser article]

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=55668366751&topic=9553

In 2010, Espero said: "HB444 was a difficult vote for me since I have gay friends . . . I do believe in rights for gay couples."

http://elections.staradvertiser.com//cifw/election10/main/index/candidate/60NV6E

7. In 2006, Espero voted yes to HB1242, which expands the definition of abortion to include 2nd and 3rd trimester abortion.

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2006/status/HB1242.asp

Espero voted in favor of a bill that allows non-residents to come to Hawaii and get abortions.

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2006/status/HB1242.asp

Following Espero’s vote, Human Life International warns that :Hawaii will go from the Aloha State to an abortion state.”

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/priest_warns_hawaii_set_to_become_abortion_state/

In 2009, Espero voted for and co-sponsored SB 604, which forces religious hospitals to provide information, and emergency contraception, if requested.

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/lists/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=604

8. Espero says that he is "UNDECIDED" on whether or not he would vote to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Hawaii. See Hawaii Family Forum 2010 Survey.

http://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/documents/candidatesprimary2010lettersize.pdf

9. Espero introduced legislation to legalize pot stores across Hawaii in residential neighborhoods. The Honolulu Advertiser published its own editorial calling Espero’s policy of establishing “marijuana shops” in Hawaii “a dopey, dangerous idea.”

http://www.hawaiivotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=73162

http://kauai.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100310/OPINION01/3100321/1105

10. While others looked for a way to close the state’s budget deficit, Espero supports higher taxes on all people in Ewa Beach and Waipahu by voting in favor of increasing the GET in 2010 by a full 25%.

http://capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/lists/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=2877

NOTES - TOM BERG

11. Berg would oppose Bill 444 and supports traditional marriage. “Marriage is to be for a man with a woman. I would vote no to HB444.”

http://elections.staradvertiser.com//cifw/election10/main/index/candidate/C2KEAQ

12. Berg is against forcing religious hospitals offering emergency contraceptives to sexually assaulted victims.
See Hawaii Family Forum 2010 Survey.

http://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/documents/candidatesprimary2010lettersize.pdf

13. Berg opposes physician-assisted suicide.
See Hawaii Family Forum 2010 Survey.

http://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/documents/candidatesprimary2010lettersize.pdf

14. Berg opposes Espero’s plan to open marijuana stores in neighborhoods like Ewa Beach and Waipahu. Further, Berg supports laws against the trafficking, the selling, the purchasing, the processing and consumption of illegal drugs, which are a scourge to society and a harm to families and individuals. [Based on October 2010 interview with Protect Our Keiki]

15. “I cannot support raising taxes especially when the Department of Education has yet to go through a full comprehensive audit to explore where money can be saved instead. Our state needs $4 billion in roadwork improvements but has laws against letting the private sector build the very roads government cannot afford to build. The more the private sector is let in to perform tasks, the more we save.”

http://elections.staradvertiser.com//cifw/election10/main/index/candidate/C2KEAQ

NOTES - RIDA CABANILLA

16. Rida Cabanilla voted YES for Bill 444, which allows two men and/or two women to have a wedding ceremony and special rights which do not currently exist.

http://www.hawaiivotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=491081

http://capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/lists/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=444

http://hawaiifreepress.com/main/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2060/categoryId/50/How-They-Voted-House-approves-Gay-civil-unions-3120-bill-sent-to-Governor.aspx

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/15984/breaking-hawaii-house-of-reps-to-vote-on-civil-unions-today

17. In 2009, Cabanailla voted for HB423, which forces religious hospitals to provide information, and emergency contraception, if requested.

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/lists/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=423

In 2006, Cabanilla voted for SB2166 which allows minor under certain circumstances to consent to provision of medical care and services (including abortion).

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2006/status/SB2166.asp

18. Cabanilla opposes physician-assisted suicide. See Hawaii Family Forum 2010 Survey.

http://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/documents/candidatesprimary2010lettersize.pdf

19. After being made aware of Espero’s proposal for marijuana stores in Ewa Beach and Waipahu, Cabanilla has made it a point to campaign together with Espero regularly in 2010. [Based on October 2010 interview with Protect Our Keiki]

20. Cabanilla: “We should increase the sales tax.” - from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser 2010 Candidate Survey.

http://elections.staradvertiser.com//cifw/election10/main/index/candidate/PM9UBJ

NOTES - KYMBERLY PINE

21. Pine: "I voted against HB 444. My constituents are overwhelmingly against this particular legislation."

http://elections.staradvertiser.com//cifw/election10/main/index/candidate/FGG7KT

22. At the March for Life, Kymberly Pine, a freshman state representative, said she had been warned that participating in the pro-life rally would jeopardize her political future. But the Catholic lawmaker said she wasn’t fazed. “I’m not here to stay in power. I’m here to do what I believe in,” she said to cheers and applause.

http://www.hawaiicatholicherald.com/Home/tabid/256/newsid884/206/Default.aspx

23. Pine opposes physician-assisted suicide.
See Hawaii Family Forum 2010 Survey.

http://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/documents/candidatesprimary2010lettersize.pdf

24. Pine opposes Espero’s plan to open marijuana stores in neighborhoods like Ewa Beach and Waipahu. Further, Pine supports laws against the trafficking, the selling, the purchasing, the processing and consumption of illegal drugs, which are a scourge to society and a harm to families and individuals. [Based on October 2010 interview with Protect Our Keiki.]

25. Pine: "This tax increase on food, rent, gas, health care and other basic necessities would have been the most damaging tax increase to the people of my district, to businesses, and to jobs. Taxing constituents of my district for these items when they lost their job and their home because of this economy in just unconscionable."

http://elections.staradvertiser.com//cifw/election10/main/index/candidate/FGG7KT

NOTES - JASON BRADSHAW

26. Jason Bradshaw refused to answer questions sent to him by the Hawaii Family Forum about Civil Unions and whether they would support a marriage amendment ensuring marriage is between one man and one woman.

http://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/documents/candidatesprimary2010lettersize.pdf

However, Jason Bradshaw and Rida Cabanilla must have completed the questionnaire from the Democrat Party's Transgender/Transvestite/BiSexual/Gay/Lesbian Caucus, because they are heavily supporting the candidacies of Bradshaw and Cabanilla for their support of implementing same-sex weddings in Hawaii.

http://blogs.starbulletin.com/inpolitics/444rd/

“We support the rights of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex community to equality before the law, including the right to equal relationship recognition, such as that set forth in House Bill 444 relating to Civil Unions.”

http://hawaiidemocrats.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104&Itemid=164

27. Jason Bradshaw refused to answer Hawaii Family Forum’s Survey but answered the Progressive Democrat Survey. The Progressives supported candidates who were for Civil Unions and Gay Marriage, Forcing Religious Hospitals to serve the abortion pill/morning after pill and abortion. Jason Bradshaw was listed as a top priority candidate to help financially and with their resources. Rep. Pine is the only Republican incumbent listed as a top priority to beat due to her conservative votes on social issues.

http://etrehumain.tumblr.com/progress

28. The Hawaii Christian Coalition names Jason Bradshaw as one of the top candidates to beat because of his anti-Christian beliefs.

http://www.hi-christian.com/2010politics.html

29. After being made aware of Espero’s proposal for marijuana stores in Ewa Beach and Waipahu, Bradshaw has made it a point to campaign together with Espero nearly every day in 2010.

30. Endorsed by HGEA which according to the Christian Coalition required the candidate to pledge to vote to raise the General Excise Tax which would raise the cost of food, medicine, gas and all other consumer items while residents are financially suffering.

http://www.hi-christian.com/deception.html

Bradshaw organized rallies at State Capitol in 2010 to pressure the Legislature and Governor to increase the tax on EVERYTHING by 25%. “The HGEA urged workers to contact state lawmakers and made another pitch for a tax increase, preferably an increase in the general-excise tax that state House and Senate leaders have stepped back from in favor of other tax options.

http://thenotebook.honadvblogs.com/2009/04/

Bradshaw refused to rule out voting to increase the General Excise Tax in response to Honolulu Star-Advertiser 2010 Candidate Survey.

http://elections.staradvertiser.com//cifw/election10/main/index/candidate/CAFY5W

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Apr/10/ln/hawaii904100375.html