Hawaii Dems Move Quickly To Fill Inouye Seat


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The Hill has this story. Excerpts:

The Hawaiian Democratic Party is moving quickly to develop a shortlist of successors for Sen. Daniel Inouye’s (D-Hawaii) seat, following the senator’s death on Monday.

Hawaii Democratic Party Chairman Dante Carpenter said he had already been contacted by a number of Democrats interested in the seat, and that party officials had begun the process of collecting applications in the state’s counties.

“With all due respect to the senator passing only yesterday, we have begun the process,” he told The Hill on Tuesday. Democrats must submit three possible Democratic appointees for the seat to Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D), who will choose a replacement to serve until a special election is held in 2014. “We don’t want to lose a minute of seniority,” Carpenter said. …

An Abercrombie aide said the governor plans to make the decision in time for the beginning of the next Congress, on Jan. 3, so Hawaii will not lack representation in the Senate for very long.

—Chad Blair

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Party Chair Dante Carpenter, Democratic Party of Hawaii state convention, Sheraton Waikiki, May 26, 2012.

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