A few years ago Al Frenzel was a (losing) candidate for the state House of Representatives; and he was proposing that Hawaii should enthusiastically embrace a massive reduction of U.S. troop levels in Hawaii in hopes of getting an increase in federal appropriations for civilian projects in Hawaii.  His campaign webpage included a semi-hidden endorsement of the Hawaiian sovereignty independence movement, which might explain why he was so eager to get the U.S. military bases in Hawaii closed.  This guy's brain works just a bit differently from the rest of us.