Mark Beatty for U.S. Senate

Mark Beatty will bring varied life experiences and ideas -- as a citizen on the cutting edge of developments -- to the US Senate, to address the challenge of our times:

Security: Mark is a combat veteran, having served in Iraq in 1990 and in Hawaii after 9-11. He understands that we must fight the enemy on their turf, rather than allow terrorists to bring the fight onto ours -- disrupting every facet of our lives.

Education: Our schools need to teach success -- not the institutionalized failure of the status quo that creates the need for “more” education. Mark has five graduate degrees, experience as a college dean, and is home schooling his own children, Esther, Deborah and Daniel, with wife Darlene, a social worker in Hawaii for 16 years.

Efficiency: Mark founded Everything Tailor, an international fashion company, as well as advises other businesses toward their own success, in his law practice (Tax, Business and Da Kine). He understands international competition and cooperation, frequently traveling to, and conducting business in Vietnamese. He has a global understanding of business and what it takes to be truly “world-class.”

The Akaka Bill/Hawaiian Rights: Mark thinks we can do better than the Akaka Bill. A government program can never outperform self motivated individuals who own their homes and land, fee simple, and control their own destiny.

Replace the status quo of stale ideas with a clean, safe and successful Hawaii for all—visit http://www.electmarkbeatty.com/ to elect Mark Beatty.

* The preceding message was neither paid for, authorized, approved, nor solicited by Mark Beatty or the Hawaii Republican Party. Mark asked me to review his 250-word statement to appear in the Voter’s Pamphlet when he officially files his papers for his candidacy. At the Republican Convention last month, I let candidates know I would be glad to review their critical literature and tweak them for maximum impact, as many told me how much they enjoyed reading my writings on the Web.

My specialty, if anybody has been paying close attention to these things, is the 500-word essay/letter (one-page) as the ultimate literary genre of these times -- down to the great one-liners ever heard. The objective is to say the most with the fewest words -- rather than the old publishing tendency to say the least and/or nothing, in the most words possible. Busy, productive people don’t have time to waste in that way -- and so they have to select those sources they can reliably count on to change their whole way of seeing things in a very brief article, having maximum impact at very little cost of time and energy.

Many candidates will just say what everybody else is saying -- giving them no competitive edge, or distinction. So, much money and opportunities are wasted in this way -- of making the outreach and contact, but not having anything really noteworthy to say; some even convey wholly negative messages! Many will overlook the critical role everything they say and write, plays in their election chances.

Leaders must clearly, decisively, and definitively distinguish themselves in that way -- of not just doing what has always been done before, in the same way it’s always been done before -- thinking that merely sticking together is the basis of their strength. We’ve had too much of that kind of leadership in the past. The new age requires people of vision, imagination and creativity -- and not just repeating the same old lines that were said in the ‘60s, as though nobody has heard them before.