Bob McDermott

Bob McDermott served in the U.S. Marine Corps. McDermott earned an M.B.A. from Chaminade University.[1] His career experience includes working as a realtor and a nonprofit executive director.[2]

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Campaign website

McDermott’s campaign website stated the following:

Key Issues

Fiscal

We'll slash inflation by balancing the $34 trillion debt, protecting entitlements, break monopolies, boost American jobs, counter CCP influence, and set a 30% tax for the wealthy. My pledge to you.

Environmental

We'll secure Oahu's desalination plant, complete Red Hill's cleanup, return Fort Shafter to Native Hawaiians, close Barber's Point dump, ensure Radford High's safety, and adjust Maui's compensation. Our commitment to action.

National Security

We'll end the Ukraine war, support Israel, stop wokeism in the military, decouple from China, protect our supply chains, ban CCP land buys near bases, boost VA care, and push for a bio-lab moratorium. Our commitment to you.

Immigration

We'll bolster border security, slash illegal immigration costs, tackle child trafficking with life sentences, ensure children's safety with DNA testing, and fight the Fentanyl epidemic. Our pledge: Enhanced safety and respect.

Cultural Issues

We'll defend kids from harmful ideologies, uphold pro-life values, combat censorship, ensure fairness, and honor parental rights. Our commitment: Safeguarding dignity and family values. [13]

—Bob McDermott’s campaign website (2024)[14]

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Campaign website

McDermott's campaign website stated the following:

Red Hill

McDermott Supports a complete closure and decommissioning of the Red Hill fuel farm. As a USMC gulf war veteran, he understands the needs to balance national security with our environment. Only Hawaii elected official to develop a plan to remove the fuel.

Inflation

Perhaps the cruelest tax of all is the insidious attack of inflation precipitated by an ill-advised monetary easing policy with no end in sight amplified by a wasteful and undisciplined fiscal policy. These poorly thought out fiscal policies discourage work and perpetuate government dependence.

Gas Prices

The Democrats declared a war of fossil fuel and the American people lost I want cheap abundant energy that all Americans can access. The night Joe Biden got elected gas futures went through the roof. Biden reentered the United States in the Paris Agreement, revoked the Keystone XL pipeline’s permit and ordering a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal land and water areas created a chilling affect on the oil industry directly driving prices through the roof!

Immigration

The current Biden open Boards policy is harmful to Americans security relating to terrorism, drugs, and human trafficking. For Hawaii, it is an insult to those of our fellow citizens who followed the rules and immigrated to America legally. They did it right, now they petition for family members who must wait years, while those south of the Boarder walk right in. Unfair.

Transit

The City and County of Honolulu has been plagued by an over budget, behind schedule rapid transit project that is about 3 billion over cost. The local taxpayer of the City and County needs some relief of this suffocating tax burden, I will get the federal funds to help offset this debt to my best of my ability.[13]

—Bob McDermott's campaign website (2022)[15]

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McDermott's website highlighted the following campaign themes:

Environment

Excerpt: "A viable and sustainable solution to reducing our waste stream, creating renewable electricity, and lowering the City’s wastewater treatment costs has arrived – It's called Super Critical Water Oxidation. This innovative technology is up and running in the pilot plan phase in Orlando, FL and Cork, Ireland. Results have been so promising that both municipalities are breaking ground on commercial size operations at the time of this writing."

Homelessness

Excerpt: "One of the major issues will be facing is the growing population of homeless in our parklands. I offer no slogan or quick fixes as there are none, however, below is my view of the situation as I see it in brief. The Homeless issue is a complicated one, with no easy solutions. Recognizing that the homeless and poor have been with us since antiquity, it requires a thoughtful and deliberate approach."