Campaign contributions from chemical+GMO companies:
$14000
Registered chemical+GMO lobbyists:
$9180
GMO+Chem Companies and Registered Lobbyist Funds only:
$23180
Trade Groups representing chemical+GMO companies:
$6500
Chem+GMO Lobbyist or Industry Immediate Family Members (IMF):
$26250
Total including Chem+GMO companies, Lobbyists, Trade Groups, Chem+GMO Employees & Lobbyist/Industry Immediate Family Members Funds:
$79110
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CANDIDATE
SURVEY
IN THE
NEWS
ENDORSEMENTS
President Barack Obama
Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA), Local 368
Hawaii Building Construction Trades Council
International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 142
University of Hawaii Professional Assembly (UHPA)
International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (IBEW), Local 1186 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 1260 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 1357
Hawaii Fire Fighters Association
Hawaii State Chiropractic Association (HSCA)
United Food & Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), Local 480
RECORD
THE
Supported the now repealed Public Land Development Corporation (PLDC) which allowed an appointed committee to sell off public lands to private interests
Rather than support county pesticide spraying buffer zones around schools, homes and hospitals and impact studies about GMO+chemical farming in Kauai County, he opted to urge instead a "Good Neighbor" pesticide disclosure website where you can learn about what you are being sprayed with.
Claims credit for turning around Hawaii's economy
Appointed Monsanto lobbyist Alan Takemoto to Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) (nicknamed the PLDC of Agriculture)
Appointed and withdrew Monsanto lobbyist John Radcliffe to nominating committee for water commissioners after public outcry over Donna Kim's Monsanto lobbyist appointment to same committee.
Told the Hawaii Crop Improvement Association (HCIA) chemical companie lobbying group, "You don't have to lobby me... I'm here lobbying you!"
Indicated ethics disclosure law for appointed public board members would somehow hurt women. http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/05/hawaii-governor-skeptical-public-financial-disclosures-boards/
Called Special Session to address gay marriage which passed
DEBATES
powered by
(D) Democrat
Incumbent
Neil Abercrombie
Seeking re-election as Hawaii Governor
Notable Quotes:
"Mehalani, everyone has special interests. Uhh, we’re male we’re female, we’re mothers we’re fathers, uh uh, we’re breadwinners uh, we’re seniors, we’re we’re, uh children. There’s uh uh, special interests ah-are uh common to us, the founding fathers of the- of the country said that these special interests would be factions. That uh they would have uh different interests that they would try to-to put forward." 7-3-14
To citizen: "Show respect. Get your own party this is the Democratic Party... You're nobody." 12-5-12
"Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood."
“You could have said at the time, that the entire state was crown lands because it was a kingdom. When we put Western ideas of property and ownership into the equation well then it became somebody’s land and they owned it...”
“Well just give that to the Hawaiians, there’s no water there’s no infrastructure there’s no anything. It’s not useful to anybody who wants to make money out of it so we’ll give that to the Native Hawaiians. Now. Come to 2010, how would you like to have 1.8 million acres of land in Hawaii? How would you like to have 200,000 acres in additional land reserved for Hawaiians by Congressional act?” 6-11-14
Background (from his site) Neil was elected and served in the State House from 1975 to 1979 and in the State Senate from 1979 to 1986. In 1986, Neil won a special election to Congress to fill the unexpired term of Rep. Cec Heftel. n 1988, Neil was elected to serve on the Honolulu City Council. In 1990, Neil was elected to return to Congress. He became Governor in 2010.
(Excerpts from the State of the State address 2-11-14) "To this end, I am proposing that we end the current practice of state funded reimbursement for federal Medicare Part B benefits for Hawaii government employees. I am personally one of those recipients of this benefit from my previous service in state government. But it is a bonus paid for by taxpayers that can no longer be justified in light of our current fiscal and social crisis. I did not earn it and cannot justify asking
taxpayers, public and private, to pay for it...
"We will have to scale back on those social services for which funding no longer exists. There are some contracts entered into by the previous administration that assumed the existence of additional federal funds for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. These unfunded contracts are for worthy programs, and we must now find new ways to support our neighbors.
We must acknowledge, without flinching, the fact that the rising cost of health care also
requires that we cut back on benefits provided to Medicaid patients in the coming years in order to sustain health coverage of any kind for eligible individuals and families. This is one of the most difficult things I have had to come to grips with as Governor, but we cannot and will not avoid it or evade the necessity of confronting the issue. I am calling on community organizations, private foundations, and all of us to work together with state agencies in helping to absorb the blows that these changes will bring..."