Eddie Pirkowski

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Eddie Pirkowski

Republican Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

August 10, 2024

Kontakt

Personal website

Eddie Pirkowski (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Hawaii. Pirkowski did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on August 10, 2024.

Biography

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Education:

• Wharton Advanced Management Program (AMP)
• Drexel University Graduate School of Business
• NJIT/NCE Bachelor of Science BSME

Elections

2024

See also: United States Senate election in Hawaii, 2024

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Incumbent Mazie K. Hirono, Bob McDermott, Emma Pohlman, and Shelby Billionaire are running in the general election for U.S. Senate Hawaii on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate
		Mazie K. Hirono (D)
		Bob McDermott (R)
		Emma Pohlman (G)
		Shelby Billionaire (We the People)

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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Incumbent Mazie K. Hirono defeated Ron Curtis and Clyde McClain Lewman in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 10, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Mazie K. Hirono	90.6	161,812
		Ron Curtis	7.2	12,935
		Clyde McClain Lewman	2.1	3,803

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. Source	Total votes: 178,550
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 10, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bob McDermott	52.3	24,800
		Adriel Lam	15.9	7,544
		Melba Amaral	13.9	6,592
		Paul Dolan	7.7	3,640
		Arturo Reyes	6.3	2,991
		Emmanuel Tipon	3.9	1,856

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	There were no incumbents in this race. Source	Total votes: 47,423
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Harry Friel, Jr. (R)
• Keith Drummond Lambert (R)
• Ku Lono Cuadra (R)
• Lester Fung (R)
• Walter Kupau Jr. (R)
• Eddie Pirkowski (R)
• Shaena Dela Cruz Hoohuli (R)

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

No candidate advanced from the primary.

		Candidate	%	Votes
		John Giuffre	100.0	963

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Vote totals may be incomplete for this race.
	There were no incumbents in this race. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 963
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Link El

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Dan Decker (Aloha Aina Party)

Green primary election

Green primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Emma Pohlman advanced from the Green primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 10, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Emma Pohlman	100.0	1,332

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	There were no incumbents in this race. Source	Total votes: 1,332
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Jennifer Booker (G)

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Aaron Toman (L)

We the People primary election

We the People primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Shelby Billionaire advanced from the We the People primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 10, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Shelby Billionaire	100.0	966

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	There were no incumbents in this race. Source	Total votes: 966
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2018

See also: United States Senate election in Hawaii, 2018

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Incumbent Mazie K. Hirono defeated Ron Curtis in the general election for U.S. Senate Hawaii on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Mazie K. Hirono (D)	71.2	276,316
		Ron Curtis (R)	28.8	112,035

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 388,351 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Incumbent Mazie K. Hirono advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 11, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Mazie K. Hirono	100.0	201,604

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 201,604
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 11, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ron Curtis	23.7	6,370
		Consuelo Anderson	19.3	5,166
		Robert Helsham	14.9	3,988
		Thomas E. White	13.6	3,657
		Roque De La Fuente	11.4	3,060
		George Berish	6.2	1,658
		Michael Hodgkiss	5.9	1,575
		Eddie Pirkowski	5.1	1,357

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 26,831
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

No candidate advanced from the primary.

		Candidate	%	Votes
		Arturo Reyes	38.0	441
		Charles Haverty	35.9	416
		Matthew Maertens	26.1	303

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Vote totals may be incomplete for this race.
	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,160
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2016

See also: United States Senate election in Hawaii, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated Hawaii's U.S. Senate race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Brian Schatz (D) defeated John Carroll (R), Michael Kokoski (L), Joy Allison (Constitution Party), and John Giuffre (American Shopping Party) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Schatz defeated Makani Christensen, Tutz Honeychurch, Arturo Reyes, and Miles Shiratori in the Democratic primary, while Carroll defeated Karla Gottschalk, Eddie Pirkowski, and John Roco to win the Republican nomination. The primary elections took place on August 13, 2016.

U.S. Senate, Hawaii General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Brian Schatz Incumbent	73.6%	306,604
	Republican	John Carroll	22.2%	92,653
	Constitution	Joy Allison	2.2%	9,103
	Libertarian	Michael Kokoski	1.6%	6,809
	American Shopping	John Giuffre	0.3%	1,393
Total Votes				416,562
Source: Hawaii Secretary of State

U.S. Senate, Hawaii Democratic Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Brian Schatz Incumbent	86.2%	162,905
Makani Christensen	6.3%	11,899
Miles Shiratori	4.6%	8,620
Arturo Reyes	2%	3,820
Tutz Honeychurch	1%	1,815
Total Votes		189,059
Source: Hawaii Secretary of State

U.S. Senate, Hawaii Republican Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
John Carroll	74.6%	26,749
John Roco	11%	3,956
Karla Gottschalk	8.5%	3,045
Eddie Pirkowski	5.9%	2,115
Total Votes		35,865
Source: Hawaii Secretary of State

2014

See also: United States Senate elections in Hawaii, 2014

Pirkowski ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. Senate, to represent Hawaii. He was defeated by Cam Cavasso in the Republican primary on August 9, 2014.

U.S. Senate, Hawaii Republican Primary, 2014

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Cam Cavasso	72.3%	25,874
John Roco	12.4%	4,425
Harry Friel	9.7%	3,477
Eddie Pirkowski	5.7%	2,033
Total Votes		35,809
Source: Hawaii Office of Elections

2012

See also: United States Senate elections in Hawaii, 2012

Eddie Pirkowski ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. Senate, representing Hawaii. Pirkowski was defeated by Linda Lingle in the Republican primary on August 11, 2012.

Campaign themes

2024

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2016

The following issues were listed on Pirkowski's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

"	Israel and Palestine: NEW PEACE TREATY and ULTIMATUM FOR ISRAEL AND PALESTINE, NEW PEACE AGREEMENT WITH 2017 SIGNING, TO CREATE NEW ISRAEL/PALESTINE WITH ALL DISPUTES SETTLED / NO FURTHER SUPPORT PERIOD OTHER THEN AGREED TO DATE UNTIL PEACE WITH ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE and SIGNED BY ALL COALITION ALLIES Syria and Iraq: AGREEMENT TO ELIMINATE SYRIA/IRAQs NUCLEAR,CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS TO RESTORE TRUST AND PEACE. American Exceptionalism: Restore America to regain world leadership and all peoples respect, status and honor by always doing the right thing, and always honoring our word and acting always with respect, honor, integrity and trust to all. Obamacare: Replace ObamaCare the current plans are increasing rates out of control for all Americans, ObamaCare includes includes over 13+ New Taxes with trillions of New Taxes for All Americans/Fix the Bill 2016/2017No penalties Retroactive Abortion: Support Both Pro Life and Pro Choice, Respect All Families, the life of the unborn child and Respect All Mothers Choices .	”
—Eddie Pirkowski's campaign website, https://eddieussenatorhawaii2016.wordpress.com/

2014

Pirkowski listed the following themes on his campaign website:

"	American exceptionalism: "Restore America to lead the world again by always keeping its word, treating all people, countries and religions with absolute honor,integrity,respect,trust,commitment and country. Restore America to the shining light of freedom and trust as a model of leadership and peace for the world. Restore America to regain world leadership and all peoples respect, status and honor by always doing the right thing, and always honoring our word and acting with respect, honor, integrity and trust. Restore American to fight for what is right, and always do what is right for America and all the people of the world." New Arab spring issues: "Restore America’s leadership by supporting freedom worldwide." Russia/China/Ukraine/Georgia: New peace agreements with all options on the table...Coordinate response with coalition partners with solid agreements with all coalition partners including Iraq, Russia and China Iran: "Peace agreement and ultimatum for Iran nuclear energy only with absolute safeguards with all military and diplomatic options on the table...Agreement with Iran for nuclear power industry, Iran to sign nuclear non proliferation agreements with Russia and China. Agreement with Iran to eliminate non energy nuclear,chemical and biological weapons. With new start to create trust and respect. Create a new peace treaty with Iran, Iraq,Israel,Russia and China signed by all coalition partners." Syria/Iraq: "Ultimatum for Syria/Iraq with all military options on the table, immediate cease fire agreement with Syria/Iraq, Russia and China, stop killing of civilians, negotiate peace or face consequences. Agreement with Russia and China for Syria/Iraq nuclear/clean energy industry only with absolute safeguards. Coordinate and sign with all coalition partners agreements with all coalition partners for peace. Agreement to eliminate Syria/Iraq's nuclear,chemical and biological weapons to restore trust and peace." Israel/Palestine: "Ultimatum for Israel and Palestine, new peace agreement with 2014 signing, to create new Palestine with all disputes settled or no further support period for Israel or Palestine with all options on the table signed by all allies. Time for this war to end period and stop the generations of killing." Iraq: Stop terrorists in their tracks,new coalition,no fly zone, joint effort to restore Iraq, new reliable energy grid infrastructure, new nuclear/clean power and assist alternative energy solar, wind, wave and hydrogen energy industries, agreements with Iraq, Iran, Russia and China to stop Iran supplied weapons to Iraq, Iraq peace, reduce and eliminate Iraq family hunger, homelessness, energy, utility and food shortages." India/Pakistan: "Peace/ trade agreements,restore reliability to India transmission/ generation energy grid, infrastructure, new nuclear power and assist alternative energy solar, wind, wave and hydrogen energy industries,build new industries,food to reduce and eliminate family hunger, homelessness and food shortages.." New Arab spring countries and all allies worldwide: new Arab spring common framework for freedom, restrengthen allies support and capabilities both offensive and defensive shield capabilities." New strengthen NATO and all NATO allies worldwide: "New NATO initiative to add Georgia and Ukraine and restrengthen NATO allies support and capabilities both offensive and defensive shield capabilities, peace agreement with Russia/China."	”
—Eddie Pirkowski, Campaign website,

According to Pirkowski's website, his campaign themes include:

• Jobs: "Creating Jobs, Jobs, Jobs for ALL the people of Hawaii Bringing and Creating New Businesses in Hawaii."
• Zero Taxes: "Cutting or Eliminating Hawaii Taxes Zero Tax State, Zero Business Taxes, Zero Capital Gains Tax and Zero Estate Tax."
• Early Education: "Focus on Early Childhood Education through New PhD Programs, News Education Benefits, New Teaching R&D Centers Make Hawaii the nation's leader in education."
• New Technology R&D Centers by Industry: "Bring New Green Industries to Hawaii Expand from 4 Industries to 27, Create New Leaders of Today and Tommorrow."
• Wars: "Stop the wars and bring our families together with victory – All the girls, mothers,and the grandmothers need to stand up and stop the killing of our children in wars around the world!"
• Regreen: "Regreening of all the Hawaiian Islands,replanting forests,restocking oceans and waterways with fish to bring back the rain and protect the Aina of Hawaii,Bring back Family Farms and Gardens."
• Energy: "New Flow Conversion Technologies for CLEAN LIMITLESS ENERGY on ocean floor between islands and new desalination plants for clean water for all islands."
• Defense: "High tech defense for Hawaii in all military and non-military police,firefighters and emergency response."
• Death Penalty: "Strong deterrent yes, anti-gang provisions, anti-corruption laws, 3 strikes, strong judges."
• Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid: "Protect benefits, cut waste, duplication, cap malpractice lawsuit, cut malpractice insurance costs."

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Eddie Pirkowski campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2018	U.S. Senate Hawaii	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
Grand total			$0	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only availabale data.

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Hawaii's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Mazie Hirono (D)

Brian Schatz (D)

Representatives

District 1

Ed Case (D)

District 2

Jill Tokuda (D)

Democratic Party (4)