Cynthia Thielen

Poinography today hints that Cynthia Thielen got the nod from the state GOP as early as Friday. The post also mentions Cynthia's son David, who also posts to DailyKos, and created a blog for Cynthia. Other Thielen websites are here.

HawaiiReporter, as Poinography puts it, is "barely lukewarm" about the selection. Poinography adds:

It won’t be long before someone at that blog laces on the RINO gloves, I reckon. Thielen’s non-democratic selection by Lingle and the Hawaii Republican Party leaders could become a GOP mirror image of the Case-Akaka “fight for the soul of the Party” event… Oh, fun.

More interesting to me: while his mother is a Republican who supports alternative energy, David is a Democrat who supports nuclear power (first posted here). He doesn't totally reject alternative energy, but says it's insufficient to power the country. He writes:

I think one of the top priorities of this country should be finding 2 or 3 standard safe state of the art designs for nuclear power plants and put us on a crash program to build them out until we eliminate the need for oil in this country.