Some very good news in yesterday's primaries in Hawai'i.

Our candidate for US House cd 2 is Jill Tokuda. She is reliably progressive and will be a very good partner with Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz.

Our candidate for lt gov will be Sylvia Luke, a very skilled and competent legislator who has proven independence and courage. They both have.

Both were opposed by the same baddies who ran extremely nasty carpet bombing campaign ads funded by shadow puppets for the rail lobby. (Our massive $ rail project that is crumbling before it even runs a single passenger, siphoning unimaginable $$$$). Vote Vets ran attack ads with that same old bs, cherry-picking and hyperdrama. Thank goodness it failed or we would have a complete noob with only one very forgettable state house term to his name for experience running for US House and a rail lobbyist for lt gov.

Other good things happened too that I won’t get into.

Not all good news- Ikaika Hussey didn’t prevail in a city council against a very unpleasant character, to my sorrow.

I’ll leave the Gov’s race to others.