Filing for the Hawaii primaries closed on July 20. The Libertarian Party will have candidates for US Senate, US House 2nd district, and state house 5th district. The Green Party has a candidate for US Senate. The Free Energy Party has candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
The Free Energy Party also appeared on the Hawaii ballot in 2002, when it ran Daniel Cunningham for Governor. Cunningham is also the Free Energy Party’s gubernatorial candidate this year.
Also, independent candidates filed for U.S. Senate, U.S. House 2nd district, Governor-Lieutenant Governor, and state house districts 4 and 5.
“Free Energy Party” sounded a bit strange to me (did some perpetual-motion-machine crank start a political party?)
Upon Googling, their platform seems to consist of “just like the Libertarians, only also, use de-commissioned nuclear submarines to provide electricity for ‘free’.”
(Iiiiinteresting idea, I suppose. But somehow I don’t think the Navy or the NRC are going to go for it. And I suppose “free” isn’t counting maintenance, personnel, security, just infrastructure (which is an admittedly large portion of a nuclear power system’s cost, compared to the alternatives.))
The candidate report is located here:
http://hawaii.gov/elections/candidates/reports/candidate_report.pdf
Thanks for the pdf
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