What Are The Odds Kai Kahele Could Become Governor? … Kahele is a pilot and a war veteran, and may be an appealing candidate. But he has little money for advertising, and was very late to the starting gate.
U.S. Rep. Kai Kahele has been talking privately about running for governor since at least January, and in the months that followed some political insiders were curious, and concerned: Why wait until May 7 to formally announce he is a candidate?
Kahele’s reply will go down in Hawaii political history, no matter how the Democratic primary turns out this year. To paraphrase his response to the doubters, he essentially said: I can do it in 90 days.
