Trending on Twitter: Duke Aiona’s Brain!

That’s the name of a new account that is not flattering at all to the Hawaii Republican running for governor.

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Duke Aiona's Brain

Screen shot from Duke Aiona’s Brain, Oct. 1, 2014.

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It began with little fanfare the night of the PBS Hawaii “Insights” program Sept. 25, which featured the four candidates vying to be governor. There on the TV was Democrat David Ige, Republican Duke Aiona, independent Mufi Hannemann and Libertarian Jeff Davis, talking politics.

Someone was watching closely and decided to set up a new Twitter account. Here’s the first tweet:

The digs just started flowing, including these:

Those are some of the tamer tweets from Duke Aiona’s Brain. Soon, the anonymous author moved on to other campaign fodder:    

You get the idea. The most recent tweet, as if this posting, comes from last night’s KITV-Civil Beat gubernatorial debate:

Duke Aiona’s Brain already has 22 followers, and they include me. I don’t know who the author is, but this person follows and understands Hawaii politics. They also clearly don’t want to see Duke Aiona elected governor.

Where this all will lead, who knows, but I would not be surprised if some Internet sleuth digs up the real identity behind this account before too long. Should that person or person then be connected to the campaign of one of Aiona’s opponents, my guess is that it won’t be a pleasant outcome for that campaign.

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