"A house divided cannot stand!" Is an age old maxim. That's the State of Affairs for the Democratic Party of Hawaii today.

I love the recent coup-de-tat that the Bernieites pulled off at the DPH State Convention, that swept in the "New Guard" with Tim Vandeveer. However, it is clearly apparent that it's the old guard that still has its power to upset the apple cart. Last Saturday, at Palama Settlement, OC Chair Reena Rabago announced that the DPH "Executive Board" voted out Cedric Gates, who ran two years ago as a Green Party Candidate. DPH rules is clear that Mr. Gates would have to wait 3 years to run as a Democrat, making him ineligible this year to run as a Democrat. Thus, the DPH Executive Board was correct in their vote to declare that Mr. Gates is NOT a Democrat & that the party has NO CANDIDATE to run against Republican Marc Pa`aluhi in District 44. This is in stark contrast to what Mr. Vandeveer has declared in his support of Mr. Gates. 

The DPH is keeping this split secret.