I am following up on my May luncheon message because it is THAT politically important and … Everything is Political. It is time for you to often check http://hawaii.gov/elections. June 5 is the deadline for candidates to submit their nomination papers. There will be a scramble because the reapportionment case won’t be heard in Federal court until May 18. Whether the current plan is accepted or whether changes must be made, time to the deadline is short. Candidates must get in as soon as they are able. Candidates who are indecisive have a more difficult time convincing voters they have …

Sounds simple enough, no? Just go house to house or now, we send out questionnaires, asking folks who live in each housing unit to write down how many people are living in the house, including babies. But we are not to include military, their dependents, or out-of-state students? Where does it say they are to be excluded? Section 1. Clause 3 of the United States Constitution states in pertinent part: Representatives …shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number …