Is anyone leaving comments here ACTUALLY an attorney?  

If nobody here is actually an attorney, is there any way for you to know that practicing criminal law for 8 years isn't enough to do this job?  Maybe even more than enough?   

Or are you just speculating out of nowhere? Not being up to speed on "inner workings" is not the same as being "incapable" of doing the job.   

This story could have been written 100 different ways i.e. "Against Great Odds, Courageous Challenger Takes On Incumbent."  

We need a change now, in the Prosecutors office. Kaneshiro is corrupt.  This Yaqoob seems like a perfectly viable candidate for this office, albeit an outsider.  If you read through the inexplicable insinuations trying to disparage him, it becomes clear he's good.  

He seems like a guy who is really smart (Iolani, Richardson Law School, his own practice), resilient (survivor of childhood illness), and has the courage to take on an entrenched, establishment incumbent, when no one else did.