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Making a Difference. for Us. Danakaka Making a difference. For us. Elect U.S. Senator DanAKAKA Bulk Rate U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 2134 Honolulu, Hawaii Paid for by Friends of Daniel K. Akaka, J. Blanco, Treasurer, P.O. Box 3169, Honolulu, Hawaii 96802 Making a difference: ...affordable housing: Senator Akaka is working to increase the supply of affordable housing. He is promoting legislation to help first-time home buyers meet Hawaii’s high housing costs. ...working families: Dan Akaka worked for legislation allowing unpaid leave for workers to care for ill family members. He has fought for child-care assistance. He has voted to increase the minimum wage. ...traffic relief: Dan Akaka’s amendment in 1986 cleared the way for the construction of the H-3 Freeway. He is helping get federal funds to build the Honolulu mass-transit system. ...drug enforcement: The Senate passed Senator Akaka’s proposal to toughen penalties for producing or selling crystal methamphetamine (“ice”). He has obtained more federal agents and funds to wage Hawaii’s war on drugs ...better jobs: Opening new markets for U.S. exports. Job training. A small-business center in Hawaii. Senator Akaka fights for economic opportunity. .. .energy independence: Thanks to Dan Akaka, over $40 million for alternative energy.. .non-polluting and unlimited sources of energy. He introduced a bill to create an emergency-fuel reserve in Hawaii. ...education: A former school teacher and principal, Dan Akaka knows education’s needs. He has delivered federal funds to strengthen Hawaii’s schools and expand the University of Hawaii. The Hawaii State Teachers Association endorses Dan Akaka. ...agriculture: Senator Akaka protects Hawaii’s sugar and pine- apple workers. He has helped get federal dollars to find new commercial crops, elim- inate plant pests, and build aquaculture in Hawaii. ... our environment: Saving Hawaii forest birds and the monk seal from extinction. Creating the Oahu Forest Wildlife Refuge, expanding the Campbell and Haleakala National Parks, and protecting oceans and beaches from pollution. Dan Akaka works for the environment. Women, workers and seniors rate the candidates: THERE ISA DIFFERENCE: AFL-CIO: AKAKA SAIKI Senator Akaka opposes the capital-gains tax cut for the most wealthy taxpayers. 100% 33% Pat Saiki supports the tax break for the rich. National Women’s Political Caucus AKAKA SAIKI Senator Akaka cosponsored the Child Care Act to increase child-care funds 100% 75% and expand Head Start. Pat Saiki voted to weaken the bill. NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: Senator Akaka voted to maintain the AKAKA SAIKI power of the Civil Rights Commission to protect the rights of women, minorities 100% 20% and the elderly. Pat Saiki voted not to. The kiplinger Washington Letter CIRCULATED PRIVATELY TO BUSINESSMEN THE KIPLINGER WASHINGTON AGENCY 1729 H STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON 6. D. C. Dear Sir: Washington, Saturday, Aug. 11, 1956. I'd like, in a personal vein, to say some things about politics that I've learned in my own experience as a reporter over many years. In such work a person sees, hears & knows things behind scenes. Somehow you come to have a sense of the ways of politics & politicians, what makes them tick, and why. You get ideas that are not in the books, some of them not standard, and some not in line with ideas of readers. Nevertheless, I'd like to speak freely. First, about a political convention: When I saw my first one I thought it superficial, disorderly and beneath the dignity of history. I guess I still think so, and yet...after a while you see the pattern, the deeper meaning beneath the brawling...and that things do get done. There's always a lot of criticism, and I have done my share, but recently in a new book, The American Presidency, by Clinton Rossiter, I found this thoughtful and cutting comment on the political convention: "Most criticisms of this noisy, plebeian, commercial institution are really criticisms of (our) noisy, plebeian, commercial civilization. "Unless we reform ourselves...the convention will continue to disturb the reasonable, shock the fastidious and fascinate all of us." What I really think is that any convention makes sense, if... ...If you look behind the front and beneath the surface. ...If you see in it the history that runs both fore and aft. ...If you put your own pet prejudices aside (to nurse later). ...And if you understand that politics runs not by mere logic, but mainly by feelings, emotions, traditions, loyalties to the past, even by intuition, which is wisdom of the ages, inherited from past. These conventions are run by politicians, both big and little... --------------- -the—big—being wholesalers in public opinion, the little being retailers. They are apt to do what's required...considering everything & everybody. They straddle, but they MUST, for forthright stands often can't win... might suit you, but wouldn't suit millions who don't think as you think. It's all very loose, and not cohesive, but that's the way a party is, that's the way the people are. Odd that the system works, but it does. A good word for politicians: True, they are freely cussed out, and are used by nearly all of us, including writers, to blame things on when things don't go the way we think they should...or wish they would. But politicians are the one connecting link between the people and the government. They are of the people and also of the government. They know the most about public opinion...and what to do about it... how to get government to respond to it...the essence of self-government. Some have high ideals, some low, but they are in step with their people. A statesman is ineffectual unless he is also a good politician. Hoover, a faulty one, had one term. Roosevelt, a shrewd one, had four. (If YOU are a bit of a politician, you are a better citizen.) COPYRIGHT, 1956, THE KIPLINGER WASHINGTON AGENCY, INC. A word about voters: You may feel appalled over how people vote without enough understanding, and beset by propaganda, angled to suit. And yet, if you go back over history, you see how the untutored voters usually came to right conclusions, considering the times and the issues. To comprehend WHY takes deeper and broader wisdom than most of us have, but the fact remains to be pondered upon. The key is faith in people. Voters tend to vote their material interests. That's not so bad, because the material involves something higher...such as family welfare, group welfare, advancement, schooling, more culture...the better things. Voters vote a good deal by "feel," ignoring all the reasonings, or else rationalizing to fit the feelings. The "feel" may be dependable, for it covers a lot of considerations that can not be fully analyzed. Voters make up their minds rather early in campaign, not late. This has always been my impression, based on talking with many people. Sometimes they SAY they are undecided, but you see they have a lean, and when you talk to them after elections you find they voted their lean. I think if elections were held today, they’d be about the same as the formal outcome next November. Sometimes swings occur in campaign. Farmers shifted Democratic in '48. But these cases are rare. The sound & fury of an election campaign serves a useful purpose, for it stirs the political blood...but it doesn't make very much change. The Democratic party is the "majority party," it seems to me, even though it didn't elect a President, and may not do so this year. People who call themselves Democrats are more numerous than people who call themselves Republicans. This is due to two historical factors: ...Ineptness of Republicans back in the 20's...on the national level. ...Popularity of Roosevelt in the 30's & 40's...accumulating followers. The Republican party is the "minority party," even if in power. There aren't enough "regular" Republicans to carry any national ticket. "Independents" decide elections, but most of the independents have home base in the Democratic party, from which they sometimes wander and go shopping. Example; A large part of the labor vote this year. The "Eisenhower party" consists of a core of Republican regulars, plus a wide fringe of independents...wayward Democrats, mentioned above. The Eisenhower party has gotten where it now is by political imitation... by embracing much of the New Deal social program...with more orthodoxy on the economic front, thus providing climate for record-high prosperity. The party hasn't pressed on toward left, or turned toward right, but has stayed "middle"...thus seeming to drum up maximum customerage. The Eisenhower party is not yet firmly & solidly in the saddle. It won't be even if Eisenhower is re-elected (which I think is probable), because Democrats are sure to be strong in Congress, in the law-making. To make the Republican party firm will take another victory...in 1960. The trend of the times is mildly conservative, pro-Republican. It goes along with rise in incomes, prosperity, homes in the suburbs. Former "have-nots" who were Democrats now become "haves," Republicans. I figure prosperity will continue, thus incubating Republicans. Also I think the Republican party in the next four years will shape up as middle or moderate liberal. But...there are many vicissitudes ahead, and if Republicans get cocky, feeling their oats, they can get dumped. People who are inclined to be conservative must always remember that the political push through all the ages has been to the leftward, toward what millions of people wanted...the common people, the masses..
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