{"id":2270,"date":"2022-08-20T02:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2022-08-24T05:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:38:24","slug":"elections-2022-are-corporate-media-copycats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2270","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2022: Are Corporate Media nasty copycats?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It appears Civil Beat’s<\/a> Nick Grube first broke the story of Congressman Kai Kahele’s “proxy” votes on April 11, 2022. Unfortunately, this “proxy” report spun out of control without much verification and undermined Kahele’s campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grube wrote that: “Kahele\u2019s absence has not gone unnoticed, according to two Washington-based lobbyists who spoke to Civil Beat on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to do so by their firms.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

” . . . on the condition of anonymity<\/em>” caught my attention. My first instinct was to google-search Congressman Kahele’s<\/a> voting record. Voting by “proxy” is still a vote. Remember we’re undergoing a COVID19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public information shows Congressman Kahele has a good record. Why was this critical public information not part of Grube’s reporting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Jan 2021 to Aug 2022, Kahele<\/a> missed 6 of 869 roll call votes, which is 0.7%. This is better than the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the Civil Beat’s negative reporting of Kahele’s “proxy” lit like a wildfire. Other corporate media jumped on the bandwagon and added their own headlines. Social media comments and trolls continued the negative connotations against Kahele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One has to ask if this was an intended negative politicking, the first salvo to undermine Kahele. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does Civil Beat not like Congressman Kahele as it obviously does not like former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or did this article about Kahele’s “proxy” vote (with the assumption of no intended malice) simply spun out of control? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should the public should be alarmed with this type of reporting? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should readers be less dependent on corporate media for facts and information?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are corporate media copycats of each other without verifying first?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, this was one negative salvo that Congressman Kahele could not contain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social media perpetuated the “proxy” vote as if Kahele had gone AWOL. Congressman Kahele is our District Representative. We were impressed and pleased with his “boots in the ground” style for Hawaii residents. He’s been present at Honolulu city council and other community meetings. This may be unconventional but he certainly could not be described as having a “chronic allergy to Capitol Hill<\/em>“. Proxy votes are allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additionally, the reporting of Congressman Kahele’s job with Hawaiian Airlines was negatively skewed as well. in 2021, Kahele has had a total of 14.2 flying hours and made less than $2,861.90. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This reduction of Kahele’s salary is not as alarming as the increased income of Hawaii’s Lt. Governor Dr. Josh Green, another gubernatorial candidate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Office of the Lt. Governor is a full-time position paying $165,552.00 a year. Dr. Green has continued to practice his medical career for the past 18 years. His recently formed Green Health International LLC reportedly saw an increase of about $1M. This gubernatorial candidate has thus far stone-walled calls for answers to these sources of income to his LLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It appears Civil Beat’s Nick Grube first broke the story of Congressman Kai Kahele’s “proxy” votes on April 11, 2022. Unfortunately, this “proxy” report spun out of control without much verification and undermined Kahele’s campaign. Grube wrote that: “Kahele\u2019s absence has not gone unnoticed, according to two Washington-based lobbyists who spoke to Civil Beat on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[215,480,457,467,482,481,483],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-civil-beat","tag-daily-beast","tag-josh-green","tag-kai-kahele","tag-kitv","tag-newsweek","tag-star-advertiser"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}