Maybe you have not been getting out around the island to attend individual candidate’s events or even the various—and plentiful—candidate forums. It’s not too late. Well, it is too late to get out and see the candidates all that much and to ask them your questions. It’s not too late to kick back and watch them on television answering other people’s questions.
Yeah, I know, it’s hit-or-miss finding stuff you “want” to watch on Akaku Community Television. It doesn’t have to be. You can hop online at www.akaku.org and see what’s playing when. Today’s your lucky day. I went online for you. I selected Programming, then Visions TV (which is Channel 53). The default search here is day-by-day. Use this if you know you have time, say, today or tomorrow. Just scan the programs and choose ones that offer candidate-anything.
Better yet, use the keyword search at the bottom of the page. Use “candidate” as the search term to get a list of all the programs with that word in the title.
Included in the sidebar are some of the results from my “candidate” search that are still in the future as of the time that this column will be published. I’m starting with Thursday, Oct. 26, but there are no programs to mention that day.
By the time you read this, the list you’ll get searching for “candidate” on Channel 53 is sure to be longer. You could probably also add to your viewing options by searching for other key words—vote, election, etc.
Take this election seriously, please. Chances are that some of the candidates you wanted to see elected all along are no longer on the ballot, but the candidates who are now on the ballot include the ones who will be governing Maui and Hawai‘i and representing us in Washington, D.C. This year we are making a very dramatic change in the government at both the state and county level, no matter who wins.
Remember the now-popular phrase: No vote, no grumble. So, vote, if only so you have the right to grumble later… when the people you voted for fail to behave as expected, or the people you didn’t vote for behave exactly as expected.
Dain Kane: It has been brought to my attention that some readers may have misunderstood when I wrote that Kane “quit” the County Council to run for mayor. He did not quit. He is still a Councilmember until Jan. 2. I regret and apologize for using the word “quit.”