{"id":5114,"date":"2009-12-12T08:04:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2009-12-12T08:04:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:34:24","slug":"u-s-congressional-representative-abercrombie-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=5114","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Congressional Representative Abercrombie resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20091212\/NEWS03\/912120327\/Abercrombie+will+quit+Congress+to+focus+on+Hawaii+governor+race\">Neil Abercrombie has resigned<\/a> his office to concentrate on his gubernatorial campaign.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Abercrombie has been a proponent of military construction projects in Hawai&#8217;i, especially new housing construction on Mokapu, site of the Kane&#8217;ohe Marine base.\u00a0\u00a0 At the same time, he&#8217;s been critical of the Army&#8217;s continued use of Makua valley.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Abercrombie has also advocated for military construction jobs on Guam to give preference to U.S. workers and hold to Hawai&#8217;i prevailing wages, something the Pentagon and Guam businesses have opposed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there are three contenders for his congressional seat who said they will run in the winner-take-all special election: Colleen Hanabusa (D), Ed Case (D), and Charles Djou (R).\u00a0 Some have speculated that Abercrombie&#8217;s early exit may entice Mayor Mufi Hanneman to switch from the Governor&#8217;s race to the Congressional race.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Neil Abercrombie has resigned his office to concentrate on his gubernatorial campaign.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Abercrombie has been a proponent of military construction projects in Hawai&#8217;i, especially new housing construction on Mokapu, site of the Kane&#8217;ohe Marine base.\u00a0\u00a0 At the same time, he&#8217;s been critical of the Army&#8217;s continued use of Makua valley.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Abercrombie has also advocated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=5114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Congressional Representative Abercrombie resigns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}