change parties, asshole

SMH

It's very difficult to get elected with an (R) after your name (at one point, the repukes were down to one senator out of 25! ), so people who would be moderate repukes on the mainland try to pass. Sometimes not so moderate: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's dad Mike, a notorious homophobe, switched from R to D a few years ago. The Dems actually had to caucus to decide if they wanted him!

and dominated by haoles (Caucasians). After WWII, many of the Japanese-American vets of the famed 442nd Division started running for office, including a disabled vet named Daniel Inouye, and in 1954, they captured control of the Legislature. To this day, most non-haoles vote Dem. Conversely, some haoles who migrate in drift repuke; one actually said, to the media, that s/he "didn't feel welcome" in the local Dem party!

edit: The result is that, as in many major cities, the election that matters is the Dem primary. Most recently, we saw this when Gov. David Ige toppled the incumbent Neil Abercrombie in the primary. Apparently Abercrombie had ticked off too many of the powers that be. Another huge factor is labor, which still has power out there (everything on store shelves being shipped in, you see ) and can really get out the vote in a primary.

due to the large population of mainland haole retirees.

Those shopping carts are not his personal property. Some of them belong to the homeless people, and some of them belong to the grocery stores. Either way, they are not Brower's to smash.

He should have been charged with vandalism

But you poke people with a stick and you might get poked back, so to speak. He's lucky no one stabbed him.

Tulsa, OK, has one of the best homeless shelters in the US. The city leased a building across the street from the Salvation Army. The homeless eat, shower, and sleep at the "Sally". They then cross the street, where the city provides lockers, day room with TV, day laborer services, washers and dryers, mental health clinic.
I know this because I worked for the Salvation Army and talked to a homeless older man. He claimed to have travel around the country and had been to over 45 shelters.
In Montana there is a homeless shelter who feeds them deer, elk, and other wildlife. The meat is donated to them by hunters who only want to mount the heads. The state troopers also pick up road kill during the winter months and deliver the road kill to the shelter.
San Diego has a homeless shelter that was build on an old Navy site. Contaminated, so no one wanted to buy the property, it was donated to the Salvation Army which then got permission to build the shelter. There are signs posted that warn people of the contamination when entering the building.
Tales told to me by a Marine Viet Nam veteran and homeless for most of his life. He drove a car but the jobs he had he never had enough money to rent. So he chose to live at homeless shelters. He was a heavy smoker.

How bizarre to spend your time making life even harder for homeless people. What the hell?