Bipartisan Buddies Mazie Hirono Says Ad Featuring GOP Colleague Shows Her Willingness to Work Across Aisle for Hawaii

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Mazie Hirono Says Ad Featuring GOP Colleague Shows Her Willingness to Work Across Aisle for Hawaii

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Democratic Rep. Mazie Hirono, who is running for Hawaii’s open Senate seat, is airing an ad featuring Republican Rep. Don Young in an effort to show her bipartisan bona fides.

In Democratic-dominated Hawaii, it may have seemed odd for Rep. Mazie Hirono (D) to tout the endorsement of a Republican Congressman less than three weeks before her party’s primary for the state’s open Senate seat.

But even in a state where the Congressional delegation consistently supports Democratic policies and President Barack Obama should win by a wide margin, the ability to work across party lines on behalf of Hawaii’s interests is an attractive message for voters across the political spectrum, Hirono and her campaign said Wednesday.

The Congresswoman said Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) reached out to her to see what he could do on her behalf, including offering to film an ad with her. Their relationship was forged largely out of a joint amendment they pushed early last year to secure federal funding for education programs for native Hawaiians and native Alaskans.

this is BS of the elephant dung kind, we are suppose to believe she lessens the progressive vote by one so we can see she can work with the party of "hell no you can't" what part of that qoute did she not understand?

what is with these defections my only opinion is money or promise's of a "better life".