Richard, on your statement that a fish rots from the head, I will totally agree with you and elaborate from my observations. A number of years ago, it seems that party leadership, having been hounded by the membership to make the process of becoming a candidate more easy, backed off their influence on the process and let everyone who wanted to, become a candidate. 

Well, for a while that seemed to work, candidates were still by and large upright and proper citizens whom the party could get behind. 

And then came Trump and Ms. Stenger to show the fallacy of removed party leadership in candidate vetting. I am totally putting the blame on the respective parties leadership in letting the situation spiral out to this illogical conclusion - letting a ranting crazy woman who thinks she is the reincarnation of God and Trump to actually be a legitimate candidate. 

The people of Hawaii need to demand of it's political parties a better selection of candidates moving forward from this year.