Hawaii Sends Charles Djou to Congress, First Republican in 20 Years
Honolulu city councilman Charles Djou won a special election to fill a vacant seat in Congress, becoming only the second Republican in Hawaii’s history to represent the Aloha state in the House of Representatives.”I think we sent a clear message to Washington, D.C., that we are spending too much money and that we need more fiscal responsibility,” Djou said Saturday night while standing outside Hawaii’s Republican Party headquarters. “I look forward to going to Washington, D.C., and Congress to do exactly that.”
Djou (pronounced duh-JOO) ran in a crowded field attempting to succeed liberal Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie, who stepped down after ten terms to run for governor. Djou campaigned as a traditional fiscal conservative who decried the Democrats’ new health care legislation, the 2009 Obama administration stimulus package, and the very idea of new taxes to pay for any of it.
He won decisively, garnering 39.4 percent of the vote in a winner-take-all special election, but how “clear” a message voters in Hawaii’s first congressional district sent to the mainland remains to be seen. Djou will be on the ballot again in November and this time he is likely to face a single Democrat, instead of a dozen. The two Democrats combined for about 58 percent of the vote.
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