The Sunshine Blog: A Glitch Shrouds Effort To Fill Waipahu House Seat

All in the family: The Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi on Saturday was poised to send the names of three candidates to Gov. Josh Green to fill the vacant state House District 36 seat, formerly held by Rachele Lamosao, who was just appointed to fill Henry Aquino’s District 19 Senate seat.

But The Sunshine Blog is unable to say definitively who the three nominees are because as of Saturday internal intrigue was mucking things up a bit at the last minute.

The Blog can report that one name that won’t be on the list is that of Justin Cadiz. He is married to Lamosao and under the kind of strange nominating process used by the party had made the final list on Friday. Cadiz himself and Lamosao were among the five Democrats submitting nomination signatures on his behalf…

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