Yet, for now, and until things change again, as they always do in politics, the era of East Oahu being a Republican stronghold, then holdout, is now pau.
At a time when bigger names in the conservative movement were also running for office – more specifically Orson Swindle who was running for Congress – Sam didn’t feel so out of place, and in fact, almost felt that a Caucasian running for the Legislature in Hawai‘i Kai was not much out of the ordinary.