Republican Charles Djou Wins Democrat Held Seat (UPDATED: VIDEO)

(Editor’s Note: The news station cut off Charles Djou’s victory speech.)

Charles Djou has just taken a decades long held seat away from the democrats in Oahu’s 1st District, and you know what I am hearing? …crickets…

Djou wins special election for Congress

Republican Charles Djou emerged victorious tonight in the special election to fill Hawaii’s vacancy in Congress, giving Hawaii it’s first GOP member of Congress in 20 years.

Djou won the special mail-in election with 39.5 percent of the vote in the first printout, released at 6 p.m.

The first printout represented nearly all of the 170,312 returned by voters in the district, which stretches from Waikiki and downtown to Mililani.

Democrat Colleen Hanabusa was second at 30.8 percent, with Democrat Ed Case third at 27.6 percent.

“This is a momentous day,” Djou told a jubilant crowd at state party headquarters. “We have sent a message to the United States Congress. We have sent a message to the ex-governors. We have sent a message to the national Democrats! We have sent a message to the machine.

“We have told them that we will not stand idly by as our great nation is overburdened by too much taxes, too much debt and too much wasteful spending.”

Djou is Hawaii’s first GOP member of Congress since Pat Saiki, who represented the party from 1987 to 1991.

Better not tell the unwashed masses they just had another great victory.  If and when some type of video surfaces, (remember ‘the Scott heard round the world’), I’ll post it.