Insights on PBS Hawai‘i is sponsored by Carlsmith Ball and Aloha State Daily THIS AUGUST, VOTERS IN STAE HOUSE DISTRICT 39 WILL HELP DECIDE THE FUTURE OF ROYAL KUNIA, VILLAGE PARK, HONOULIULI, HO'OPILI AND PS OF WAIPAHU.

THE PRIMARY ELECTION FEATUS CONTESTED RACES IN BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES.

THIS IS AN OPEN SEAT AND IN PREVIOUS ELECTIONS HAS BEEN VERY COMPETITIVE, WITH THE WINNER COMING OUT ON TOP BY THE NARROWEST OF MARGINS.

TONIGHT'S LIVE BROADCAST AD LIVESTREAM OF INSIGHTS ON S HAWAI'I START NOW.

♪ ♪ ALOHA AND WELCOME TO INSIGS ON PBS HAWAI'I.

I'M LAUREN DAY.

AFTER SERVING TWO TERMS, REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE ELIJAH PIERICK IS MAKING AN FOR THE STATE SENATE THIS YEAR.

THAT LEAVES HIS SEAT IN STE HOUSE DISTRICT 39 WIDE OPE.

TONIGHT, WE'LL BE HEARING M THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES HOPING TO MAKE T TO THE GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT.

AND IF YOU DON'T THINK EVEY VOTE MATTERS, REPRESENTATIE PIERICK WON RE-ELECTION IN 2024 BY JUST ELEVEN VOTES.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TONIGHT'S SHOW.

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UP FIRST TONIGHT ARE THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR STATE HOUSE 39.

DANIEL DEGRACIA IS A PROGRM SPECIALIST WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND IS ALSO THE O'AHU CHAIR OF H'S UNIT 13 FOR SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES.

HE HAS TWO DOCTORATES IN THEOLOGY AND MINISTRY AND A MASTER'S DEGREE IN POLITICL SCIENCE.

AND WAYNE KAIWI IS A COMMUY ADVOCATE, SMALL BUSINESS OR AND FOUNDER OF BACK DAH BLE HAWAI'I, WHICH SUPPORTS LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PROMOTES SR COMMUNITIES.

HE ALSO SERVED AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MASONS AND PLASTERERS FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION MPFA.

THANK YOU BOTH FOR MANY COG OUT TONIGHT.

START WITH YOU.

WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO RUN R OFFICE?

>> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT REALLY THAT EXCITING OF A STORY.

FIRST THING THAT I NOTICEDS THE GRASS WASN'T BEING CUTN ROYAL KUNIA AND GETTING DRY AND FIRE HAZARD RISK AND IS CONCERNED ABOUT BEING THE T LAHAINA WHEN WE HAD AN ARSONIST SET A FIRE JUST A COUPLE HUNDRED FEET AWAY FM THE AREA WHERE I LIVE IN.

AND THEN IN ADDITION TO TH, THE SIDEWALKS HAD GOTTEN IO DISREPAIR AND I JUST LOOKET THE STRICT AND I SAID, I TK WHAT IS REALLY NEEDED AND T IS UPON IMPORTANT ATTENTIOO DETAIL.

NOT ONLY THAT, I ALSO WANTD TO BRING MY LEGISLATIVE EXPERIENCE INTO THE CAPITO.

SO I USED TO BE THE CHAIR'S COMMITTEE CLERK.

HIGHEST RANKING STAFFER ON COMMITTEE TO HUMAN SERVICES AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

WHAT THAT MEANS IS I'VE WRITTEN A BILL DRAFT, ROUTD IT TO HOUSE MAJORITY STAFF OFFICE FOR LEGAL REVIEW,ER ROUTED IT FOR SIGNATURE, SUBMITTED IT TO THE CHIEF CLERK, SCHEDULED THESE BILS FOR HEARS, COLLECTED TESTIMONY, I WENT THROUGH E ENTIRE HEARING PROCESS, AMD BILL, WROTE COMMITTEE ROLES AND SHEPARDSONED THEM THROH THE PROCESS FOR MY CHAIR, SHEWHATLEGISLATORS DOMPLETL NEEDED TO GO AWAY I WOULD E THE ONE WRITE IT'S JUSTIFICATIONS SHEETS FOR COMMITTEE CHAIR ON WHY THEY SHOULD VOTE NO OR WHY THIS BILL SHUN SHO SHUNNING REFO COMMITTEE.

GOOD BILL WHY IT SHOULD PAI BELIEVE THAT DISTRICT 39 NS SOMEONE WHO IS READY ON DAY ONE, AND SO WHEN I GO INTOE CAPITOL, I WOULD BE USING THESE EXPERIENCES AND THIS KNOWLEDGE TIEBL TO MAKE THE PROCESS MORE CONVENIENT AND EASY FOR THE PUBLIC, AND I THINK THAT PEOPLE WILL FINE TOUGH AND COMPETENT AND RESPONSIVE TO WHATEVER NEES THEY HAVE.

>>Lauren: GET INTO DAY A LITTLE BIT MORE.

WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO COE OUT AND RUN FOR OFFICE?

>> I GOT TO SAY THIS, THATI DON'T HAVE MASTERS DEGREE R PH.D.

OR NO ELEMENTAL P'S BEHIND AM I NAME.

ALL OF MY EXPERIENCE LIVED EXPERIENCES.

AND I'M A PERSON WHO COMES FROM A COMMUNITY THAT I LO, AND I'M IN THE SAME TRAFFIS EVERYBODY ELSE IN MY COMMUNITY, IN MY DISTRICT E SAME CHALLENGES EXPERIENCES BUSINESSMAN, COMMUNITY ADVOCATE, AND FORMER EXECUE DIRECTOR FOR THE HAWAII MASON'S UN UNION WORKED STE CAPITOL GOT TO KNOW DIFFERT LAWMAKER TLC AND TRYING TO FIGHT FOR, LEGISLATION FORR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.

AND IT'S THAT RELATIONSHIP THAT I GAINED OVER THE YEAS THROUGH THAT, OFFICE, THER, THAT I WANT TO LEVERAGE FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

>>Lauren: WHAT ARE THE TWO OF YOU FEEL ARE THE MOST PRESSING ISSUES FACING YOUR COMMUNITY?

WHEN YOU TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS YOU MENTIONED, RT AT THE TOP, ABOUT FIRE CONCERNS.

WHAT DO YOU HEAR FROM YOUR FRIEND, FAMILY, PEOPLE IN R COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT MATTES TO YOUR AIR?

>> I THINK FOR ME, ALWAYS R EVERYBODY TALK ABOUT COST F LIVING.

VERY BIG ISSUE.

THAT AFFECT IS NOT ONLY OUR COMMUNITY, BUT HAWAII'S WH.

THERE'S A LOT THAT CAN BE E TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES.

AND I THINK IN OUR COMMUNI, THE TRAFFIC IS HORRENDOUS.

AND EVERYBODY SITS IN THAT TRAFFIC AND IT TAKES AWAY E FROM BEING WITH OUR FAMILI.

EVERY DAY WE WAKE UP, GO WK IN TOWN, FOR THOSE OF US ME THAT TREK, WE GOT TO RETURN BACK IN TRAFFIC AGAIN, ANDF TAKES A LOT OF TIME TO GET BACK HOME.

SO THAT'S A BIG ISSUE THER.

COST OF LIVING, FOR ME, I THINK FOR US ADDRESS THAT, DIVERSIFICATION IS SOMETHIG THAT I LOOK AT AS BEING SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD WK ON TO ADDRESS THAT ISSUE.

>>Lauren: WOULD YOU AGREE N THOSE TWO TOPICS?

ANYTHING ELSE?

>> NO.

EL ABSOLUTELY.

THANK YOU FOR THAT WAYNE, E OF THE THINGS THAT, I NOTID IN MY DISTRICT IS THAT WE E A HUGE NUMBER OF MULTIGENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLS AND MANY OF THESE PEOPLE HE PROFESSIONAL DEGREES.

AND IT'S BECAUSE THE COST F LIVING AND THE COST OF PURCHASING A HOUSE IS SO GREAT.

THE PACIFIC RESOURCE PARTNERSHIP PUT OUT A NUMBR THIS WEEK THAT INDICATED TT UNNECESSARY REGULATIONS ADS MUCH AS 28% TO THE COST OF BUYING A NEW HOME.

THE FIGURE THAT THEY CAME P WITH WAS $131,734 MORE THAN WHAT IT WOULD COST MANY OF THESE REGULATIONS WERE NOT THERE.

SO PEOPLE ARE VERY FRUSTRAD BECAUSE INFLATION IS JUST DRIVING THINGS UP AND COSTF THESE REGULATIONS IS MAKE THINGS VERY ONEROUS.

OTHER THINGS WANED TO MENTN IN HO'OPILI, PARTICULARLY R THERE, RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR ELEMENTARY SCHE BUILT.

CAN'T AFFORD TO SEND KIDS O PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

PROMISE MADE TO RESIDENTS F HO'OPILI SCHOOL WOULD BE BL AND WE NEED TO GET THAT TH.

WOULD BE BUILT.

ON THE NOTE OF THEUNGS BEIG EXPENSIVE I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WITNESS SOMETHING IN A RESTAURANT N KUNIA WAITING FOR MY FOOD D THIS POLICE OFFICER WENT UO THE CLERK PROBABLY IN HIS EARLY 20'S, AND THERE POLIE OFFICER SAID, DADDY LOVES .

IS THERE ANYTHING THAT I CN DO FOR YOU?

AND HE OPENED UP HIS WALL D AND GAVE WALLET GAVE HIS SN LINED COUNTER COUPLE OF 20.

BEHIND THE COUNTER.

CONNECTED AM THEY SHOWS WHT HOLDING OUR DISTRICT TOGETR IN THE MIDST OF THAT ECONOC CRISIS IS NOT GOVERNMENT.

T IT'S THE LOVE OF FAMILIES D SO WHICH GO TO DOOR-TO-DOO, AND I SEE THAT, THERE'S PEE THAT ARE AS YOUNG AS 17, OR MAYBE 30 YEARS OLD, OR 75 PLUS, ALL OF LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD, THE ONE THG THAT THEY WANT IS THEY WANT THE ABILITY TO MAKE HAWAII AFFORDABLE AGAIN.

AND I THINK THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS THAT.

>>Lauren: COST OF LIVING BOTH FG OF YOU JUST TOUCHED ON, SOMETHING EVERYONE WOUD AGREE WITH TOP PRIORITY FOR EVERYBODY IN HAWAII.

WHAT IS SPECIFICALLY IN TES OF LEGISLATION, WOULD YOU O OF YOU INTRODUCE TO TRY AN ADDRESS THAT ISSUE?

>> FOR ME, I KNOW THAT GOVERNMENT DOESN'T CREATE JOBS.

SO WE WOULD HAVE TO, GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE TO ME IT ENVIRONMENT EASIER FOR BUSINESSES TO COME TO HAWAI WHO WANT TO OPEN UP BUSINES AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, AND RENEWABLE D AG AND ALL OF THAT.

WE NEED TO CREATE A SPACE T THE CAPITOL TO MAKE BUSINES HERE IN HAWAII MORE FRIEND.

FOR BUSINESSES TO COME TO HAWAII.

THAT WANT TO HELP US TO CHE THAT.

WE ALL KNOW THAT THE COST F LIVING, MEDIUM INCOME HEREN HAWAII IS BASED ON SERVICE INDUSTRY.

AND IN ORDER FOR US TO BRIG THAT MEDIUM INCOME UP WE ND TO CREATE NEW JOBS.

MORE HIGHER PAYING JOBS.

AND AS DANNY MENTIONED EARLIER, HE MENTIONED PEOPE WITH DEGREES, THERE'S A LOF PEOPLE WITH DEGREES OUT THE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE WORK.

WHY IS THAT?

I THINK IT'S BECAUSE THE TE OF DEGREES THAT THEY HAVE,T DOESN'T COINCIDE WITH THE S THAT ARE AVAILABLE.

SO WE NEED TO CREATE THAT THERE.

SO THAT THESE PEOPLE WITH DEGREES CAN USE THEIR DEGRS TO MAKE A BETTER LIVING FOR THEMSELVES.

>>Lauren: HOW WOULD YOU ENCOURAGE IN TERMS OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNMENTO HAVE MORE JOBS HIGHER PAYIG JOBS ON WEST OAHU?

>> RIGHT.

SO WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT APPRENTICESHIPS WITH THE UNIONS.

WORKING WITH OUR UNIVERSITS TO TRY AND CREATE DEGREES T PEOPLE CAN GET FROM THEM FR THE JOBS THAT WE COULD CREE HERE.

WE LOOK AT THE TOURISM INDUSTRY AND YOU DON'T NEEA DEGREE FOR ANYTHING THERE N YOU TALK ABOUT SERVICE INDUSTRY.

BUT IN ORDER TO CREATE A BETTER PAYING JOB, YOU'LL D A DEGREE.

IF WE WORK WITH THE UNIVERY OF HAWAII, AND TRYING TO CREATE PROGRAMS THAT PEOPLE COULD GO AFTER DEGREES, THY COULD PROBABLY GET A BETTER JOB HERE IN HAWAII.

>>Lauren: BAY ABOUT FOR YO?

ANY SPECIFIC LEGISLATION YU DO TO ADDRESS COST OF LIVI.

>> AS A REPUBLICAN EXTREMEY THANKFUL FOR PRESIDENT TRUP GIVING EXEMPTIONS TO HAWAII FOR THE JONES ACT.

THAT IS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTF COST.

OTHER THING THAT I THINK TT IS IMPORTANT IS WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH POWER T THE GOVERNOR HAS IN TERMS F REGULATORY ABILITY THAT IMPACTS BOTH COST AND TYPEF RESOURCES AND THINGS THAT E PUT INTO PEOPLE'S HANDS.

I THINK ELECTING STRONG REPUBLICAN LIKE GARY FOR OR GOVERNOR IS GOING TO BE KEY STEP.

MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE R EXAMPLE THAT HAWAII RECEIVS $99 MILLION PER YEAR IN TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NY FAMILIES.

WHAT THAT IS A MEANS TESTED FINANCIAL BENEFIT THAT IS GIVEN TO FAMILIES IS IT A E AT RISK.

I BELIEVE IT'S 90% FELDHAUE FEDPORTFOLIO LEVEL.

HAWAII HOLDING BACK TAN YOU HAVE FUNDS.

$48 MILLION.

STARTED TO DRAW THAT DOWN THROUGH THE PANDEMIC STILL $223 MILLION IN THERE BUT F WE WERE TO ACTUALLY START DRAWING THAT DOWN, BECAUSE IT'S GIVEN TO US BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TO DIRECTLY PUT MONEY IN THE HANDS OF SINGLE MOTHERS FAMILIES STRUGGLING, IF WE WERE TO START DRAWING THAT DOWN PROBABLY HELP ABOUT 27,000 PEOPLE GET STABILIZ.

THAT'S IMMEDIATE STEP.

SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES GOVERNOR WHO A IS AWARE OF THAT AND ABLE TO ACT ON TH.

OTHER THING THAT I THINK WE NEED TO DO IS WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN LOCAL AGRICULTU.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ISE LARGEST PURCHASER OF FOOD N THE STATE.

THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE 3% OF THEIR FOOD PROVIDED TO CHILDREN FROM LOCAL SOURCE.

BUT SO FAR, ONLY REACHED 1I BELIEVE THAT'S BECAUSE THEE COUNTING MILK IN THE EQUAT.

IF D.O.E.

HAS BETTER FARM O SCHOOL COORDINATION, THAT'S GOING TO DO IS REINVIGORATE LOCAL AGRICULTURE IN HAWAII AGAIN.

PUT HANDS OF SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND SMALL FARMS TO K AND AMERICA AND HAWAII WAS BUILT ON FARMS.

THAT IS GOING TO INVIGORATE ECONOMY.

FEED OUR CHILDREN.

AND THAT WILL ALLOW TO US DIVERSIFY A LITTLE BIT WITH TOURISM.

AND ULTIMATELY I THINK THAE NEED MORE GENERAL EXCISE TX EXEMPTIONS.

AS SOMEONE PAYS TAXES, I FL LIKE WE'RE ALWAYS BEING NICKELED AND DIAMOND.

ADDP DIMED PEOPLE HAVE MORE MONY IN THEIR BEING POCKETS LES HIRE MORE PEOPLE.

>>Lauren: EVERYONE KNOWS TP OF MIND FOR EVERYBODY.

COST OF LIVING.

I HEARD TWO OF YOU MENTION, SCHOOL AND HO'OPILI.

YOU MENTIONED TRAFFIC.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BIGGEST PUBLIC SAFETY ISSU?

DISTRICT 39?

WHAT DO YOU HEAR FROM YOUR COMMUNITY.

>> FOUNDER BACK THE BLUE HAWAII, MYSELF AND MY PEOP, MEMBERS, WE HAVE OVER 10,00 MEMBERS IN BACK THE BLUE HAWAII.

WHAT WE TRY TO DO IS WE TRO MAKE OUR COMMUNITIES SAFERY CREATING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OUR COMMUNITY.

AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IO WE GO OUT AT 12:00 AT NIGH, ACTUALLY PATROLLING OUR COMMUNITY OUT THERE.

KEEP IT SAFE.

I THINK OVERALL, HO'OPILI I CAN SPEAK FOR THEM, FAIRLY SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE F THOSE EFFORTS.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THT OTHER COMMUNITIES ARE FACIG THE SAME THING.

I THINK SAFE COMMUNITY IS STRONG COMMUNITY.

AND I WANT TO LEVERAGE OUR THING WHEN HE TALK ABOUT HS SECURITY, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE CN DO FOR THAT.

BUT BEING OUT THERE, IN THE COMMUNITY, AND TRYING TO HP THAT WHOLE SITUATION PATROLLING, CREATING SAFER COMMUNITIES, AS A BIG THING FOR ME.

>>Lauren: DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR CONNECTIONS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT GIVES YOU A LEP IN THAT SENSE IN TERMS OF PROTECT COMMUNITY?

>> I THINK I WOULDN'T SAY A LEG UP.

I WOULD SAY A RELATIONSHIPS REALLY GOOD.

BUT I WOULDN'T CALL IT A LG UP.

I'LL SAY THIS, THAT THROUGH BACK THE BLUE, I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT BECE BACK THE BLUE CAME INTO PL, WHEN HAWAII OR THE UNITED STATES FOR THAT FACT WAS GG THROUGH THE CRISIS DURING PANDEMIC WHEN PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO DEFUND THE POLIC.

WHAT WE DID HERE IN HAWAIIS ACTIVATED THE COMMUNITY TO SHOW OUR POLICE OFFICERS HE THAT THEY'RE OUR PEOPLE, WO ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THEM.

AND WANTED TO SHOW SUPPORT FROM THE PUBLIC.

SO BECAUSE OF THAT, WE WERE ABLE TO LEVERAGE A LOT OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITY ACTIVIS WITH POLICE AND THE COMMUNY SO OUR STRANGER DANGER THIG THAT HAPPENED FEW YEARS AG, WHEN INCIDENT IN HO'OPILI HAPPENED, WHERE SOMEBODY WS TRYING TO PICK UP OUR CHILN THERE, WE ACTIVATED THAT.

CHRIS KIM FROM THE HPD CRIMESTOPPERS CAME DOWN ANE TALKED ABOUT THAT ISSUE.

AND MADE A DIFFERENCE THERO BRING AWARENESS TO THAT.

SO I WOULDN'T SAY WE HAVE A LEG UP BECAUSE OF THAT, BUI WANT TO SAY THAT WE HAVE 'D GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR POLICE OFFICERS.

RECENTLY LEVERAGE IT WITH UNITED STUNIONS YOU REMEMBA SHOOTING ON DIAMOND HEAD AE TO PROVIDE CONSTRUCTION CRW TO REDO A HOUSE FOR FALLEN OFFICERS SON.

AND IT'S TAKEN US A LONG TE BUT WEAWE'RE FINALLY THERET READY TO TURN THE HOUSE OVR THE TO OFFICER'S SON.

>>Lauren: GOOD NEWS.

WHAT DO YOU HEAR WHEN GO DR NOOK KNOCK PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES.

>> EXPERIENCED IT FIRSTHAND FIRST MOVED TO ROYAL UNIHAD REALLY GREAT, KUNIA.

GREAT 2,000 HONDA CIVIC REY FOND OF BECAUSE I DROVE THT GRADUATE SCHOOL, I HAD TRID CAR OUT AND PUT A VERY EXPENSIVE SOUND SYSTEM IN , AND IS IT WAS BROKEN INTO T ONCE, NOT TWICE, BUT THREE TIMES.

EACH TIME THIS THEY BROKE O IT, THEY TOOK A LITTLE BIT MORE.

UNTIL FINALLY ON THE THIRD TIME, I GOT THIS CALL FROMD AND THEY SAID, WE FOUND THE HULK OF THIS CAR, IN LOWER WAIPAHU.

AND JUST ONE EXPERIENCE AFR ANOTHER.

AND I HAD LOST MY CAR.

I HAD REALLY GREAT MOUNTAIN BIKE THAT I HAD PUT MY BACKYARD AND TVRs STOLEN.

GOT ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD BO, 2013, I TALKED TO THE POLIE ABOUT THIS AND THAT HE SAI, THE PROBLEM WE HAVE IS THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THT COME FROM OUTSIDE THE DISTT LOOKING FOR THINGS TO STEAL THAT THEY CAN SELL SO THEYN GET DRUGS.

SO UPSTREAM OF THIS, I THIK IT'S IMPORTANT TO ADDRESS O MUCH DETERMINANTS OF HEALT.

LEAD PEOPLE TO GET INTO DESPERATION SEEK OUT DRUGSR GET INTO CRIME.

I AM VERY GLAD THAT WE HAVE THE GREATEST POLICE FORCE N THE UNITED STATES HERE IN HONOLULU.

>> I AGREE.

>> WE NEED TO SUPPORT OR POLICE OFFICERS.

AT THE SAME TIME WORKING IN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH I THIK THAT UPSTREAM WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE THINGS THAT CAE THE INSTABILITY.

THAT IS THINGS LIKE LACK OF HOUSING, LACK OF ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE, LACK OF JUST SOCIAL SUPPORT AND SO REPUBLICANS BELIEVE THAT COMMUNITIES TAKE CARE OF EH OTHER AND STAND UP FOR EACH OTHER.

WHEN WE'RE ABLE TO BRING THINGS BACK TT FAMILY AND O THE NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU'RE GG SO SEE LESS CRIME.

ULTIMATELY AS REPUBLICAN I BELIEVE IN THE SECOND AMENDMENT.

I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TT WE PROTECT THE RIGHT TO KEP AND BEAR ARMS AND OPEN CARY AND WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU'E GOING TO DETER A LOT OF CR.

>>Lauren: IF 'ELECTED, WHAT IS THE FIRST THING THAT YOU WANT TO TACKLE?

>> AND HOW ARE YOU ALSO PLANNING SORRY, TWO PART QUESTION.

HOW ARE YOU ALSO PLANNING O STAY IN TOUCH WITH YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND MAKE SURE THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD?

>> GREAT QUESTION.

SO THE FIRST THING THAT I T TO DO IS GOING TO BE VERY PRACTICAL.

NOT EVEN LEGISLATIVE.

MY FATHER CONCERN IN THE AR FORCE.

COMND AT ANDERSON AIR FORCE BASE.

COMMAND.

FIRST THING HE AND OTHER OFFICERS DO TOUR THE COMMAD AND LOOK AT EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.

LIKE MAYBE THE SIDEWALK IST FIXED OR MAYBE THE GRASS HASN'T BEEN CUT.

WHAT I WILL DO TAKE MY CHIF OF STAFF AND WE WILL LOG EY SINGLE THING IN HD 39 THATS OUT OF PLACE.

THAT MEANS WE'RE GOING TO REPLACE THE GARBAGE CANS TT HAVE HOLES IN THEM.

GOING TO CUT THE GRASS IN AREAS THAT ARE OVERGROWN.

AND WE'RE GOING TO PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL.

BECAUSE IF THE DISTRICT LOS SEA SH SHABBY FALLING APART DOESN'T MATED WAR KIND OF BILLS THAT I INTRODUCE.

DOESN'T MATTER ONE OF THINI WILL DOER ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE WE NEED TO ADDRESS.

THANKFUL THAT THE LEGISLAT, STARTED TO GET IN-ROADS IN THAT BUT WE'VE GOT SO MUCH MORE DO.

NUMBER ONE REPUBLICAN, I TK PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE BEIG USED TO CREATE SOCIAL CREDT SYSTEMS.

WE NEED TO BLOCK THAT IN HAWAII.

OTHER THING IS THAT PARENTF THEY'RE NOT PARENTING THEIR CHILDREN, ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE WILL.

SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE TT CHILDREN ARE NOT BEING SUPEXPOSEDWRONG KIND OF IDR INFORMATION FROM ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE.

OTHER THING THAT I THINK WE NEED TO DO IS WE NEED TO TACKLE THE CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIC IN HAWAII.

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM REPORT CAME OUT THIS WEEK INDICATD THAT IN HAWAII, ONE OUT OF EVERY HE 10 DOTS SPENT THE LAST-ADULTS SPENT THE LAST4 DAYS LAST MONTH WITH POOR MENTAL HEALTH OR POOR PHYSL HEALTH.

PEOPLE NEED HOPE.

THEY NEED COMFORT.

THEY ND TO UNDERSTAND NOT BEEN LEFT BEHIND.

AND WHEN YOU'RE WORKING TWR THREE JOBS, YOU CAN GET TOE POINT WHERE EVERYTHING IS STRESS.

YOU HATE GETTING OUT OF BEN THE MORNING.

AND WHERE YOU FEEL LIKE HOM I GOING TO GET THROUGH THI?

AT ONE POINT IN TIME I WAS WORKING TWO JOBS AND RIGHT NOW, I'M WORKING ONE JOB.

CAMPAIGNING FOR OFFICE AND COMPLETING MY MASTER IN BUT PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOAD THERE ARE MANY MORNINGS I DON'T WANT TO GET OUT OF BD AND I KNOW THAT PEOPLE HAVT A LOT HARD THAN ME IN DISTRICT.

TACKLE SOCIAL DETERMINANTSF HEALTH.

HAVE IT WHERE PEOPLE ARE NT SPENDING 14 DAYS OR MORE SAYING I FEEL AWFUL AND DOT WANT TO GET OUT OF BED.

MAKE HAWAII GREAT GENTLE.

BECAUSE I'M A GREAT AGAIN.

I'M A REPUBLICAN BELIEVE IN THAT.

>>Lauren: SAME QUESTION.

>> HE BROUGHT UP A LOT OF D POINTS THERE.

AND FOR ME, BEING A NATIVE HAWAIIAN, I THINK IS IMPORT FOR US TO LOOK AT ALL THE SOCIAL ISSUES THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED.

ALL OF WHAT IS HAPPENING OT THERE WHEN IT COMES TO MENL HEALTH AND DRUG USE AND CRE AND EVERYTHING, GOES BACK O THE ECONOMY.

AND UNTIL WE CAN TACKLE THE SITUATION, WITH THE ECONOM, WE GOT TO DO THAT BY INTRODUCING BILLS THAT ARE GOOD FOR HAWAII.

IF IT'S NOT GOOD FOR HAWAI, WE SHOULDN'T BE LOOKING AT TRYING TO PASS THESE THING.

AND WOULD CARES IF IT'S A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN, T INTRODUCES THE BILL.

WE SHOULD BE ABOVE THAT.

AND WE SHOULD BE TALKING AT GETTING TOGETHER AND DOINGE RIGHT THING FOR HAWAII.

BECAUSE IF WE DON'T DO THA, WE'RE GOING TO END UP IN WE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW.

AS A REPUBLICANS I TOLD DAY AT STATE CONVENTION, THAT I THINK DANNY IS VERY VIABLE CANDIDATE HERE IN THIS RAC.

I'M NOT RUNNING AGAINST HI.

I'M RUNNING WITH HAWAIIAN HOMES.

-- ARE I HIM THIS MAN HAS E EXPERIENCE AN SMARTS THERE.

FOR ME ALL LIVED EXPERIENCI DON'T HAVE THE EDUCATION LE DANNY HAS.

BUT WHAT I DO HAVE.

TALK ABOUT THE SITUATION WH AG, THAT CAN HELP OUR D.O.. WITH THE FOOD, FARM TO TAB, BACK ANY WOULD SAY ABOUT 8 YEARS AGO, WE TRIED TO UTIE MEAT PLANT THAT WAS BROUGHT ONLINE.

TODAY WHAT HAPPENED WITH TT MEAT PLANT UNDER GOVERNOR E ADMINISTRATION, WENT AWAY A MULTIVILLAIN HERE BUYING CP CATTLE OR MEAT FROM THE MAINLAND BRINGING IT HERE O HAWAII, REPACKAGING IT AND RAISING THE PRICE.

THINGS LIKE THAT WE NEED TO AFTER AND MAKE BILLS STOP T FROM HAPPENING BECAUSE WE A HERE IN HAWAII NEED TO LEAN TO SUSTAIN OURSELVES, THATY WE CAN BRING DOWN THE COSTF LIVING FOR EVERYBODY.

>>Lauren: TRY TO SQUEEZE IN TWO QUESTIONS.

IF YOU CAN KEEP THE ANSWERS CONCISE AT THIS END APPRECE THAT.

HOW DO YOU BOTH PLAN TO VOE YOUR OPINIONS WHILE ALSO HEARING FROM YOUR CONSTITUENTS?

MAKING SURE THEIR VOICES AE HEARD.

>> THAT'S WHAT I PLAN TO D. I THINK THROUGH LABOR AND Y NEGOTIATIONS AND THINGS THT I'VE DONE AT THE CAPITOL FR OUR LABOR UNIONS, I'M ABLEO LEVERAGE OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE PEOPLE THERE.

THAT ARE MAKINGING THESE L. AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THS PEOPLE IN DISTRICT 39 HAS A VOICE THERE.

A LOT OF PEOPLE IN OUR DISTRICT FELT THAT THERE'SA DISCONNECT BETWEEN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE LEGISLAT.

I WANT TO CHANGE THAT AND E THE VOICE THERE IN THAT CAPITOL FOR OUR PEOPLE.

>>Lauren: YOU TALK, LONG BREATHS, RESPECTFULLY SAY THAT.

YOUR ANSWER REALLY QUICKLY.

>> ONE THING THAT I WOULD O DIFFERENT IS I WOULDN'T A.. BOOMSHAKALAKA MY COLLEAGUES AMBUSH MY COLLEAGUES.

LEGISLATURE THERE'S A LOT F THINGS WHERE PEOPLE JUST GO OUT AND THEY DO INSTAGRAM VIDEOS AND JUST ATTACK THE COLLEAGUES OR THEIR FOLO COMMITTEE CHAIRS FELLOW I WOULDN'T DO THAT.

I WOULD DO START OUT THE SESSION, AND I WOULD SPEAKO EVERYONE AND SAY LOOK, THIS MY SECOND TIME IN THE BUILDING.

I WAS A STAFFER FIRST NOW, REPRESENTATIVE.

I'M HERE TO GET THINGS DON.

AND I'M NOT HERE TO OFFEND YOU.

NOT HERE TO BE FEATURED ONX NEWS.

I'M JUST HERE TO WORK.

AND I'LL DO WHATEVER IT TAS TO FIND MIDDLE GROUND.

AND I WILL STAY IN TOUCH WH RESIDENTS, I WILL ALWAYS DR TO COMMUNITIES.

I WON'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT SEEKING COMMUNITIES INPUT.

AND I JUST BE A GENTLEMAN N OFFICE.

>>Lauren: THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH.

FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT.

REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIM.

OUR GUESTS IN STUDIO, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 39, DANIEL DEGRACIA AND WAYNE KAIWI.

AS WE GET READY FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES, PLEE ENJOY THIS HIKI NO STORY FM STUDENTS AT THE HAWAI'I TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY IN WAIP.

>>IT FELT VERY EMPTY, NOT KNOWING IF YOU WERE GOING O LIVE TOMORROW, NOT KNOWINGF YOU WERE GOING TO BE ABLE O DO THE THINGS THAT YOU LOV, YOU KNOW, GET THE JOB THATU WANT TO DO IN THE FUTURE, P THE PEOPLE YOU WANT TO HELP SUPPORT THE FAMILY THAT YOU LOVE SO MUCH.

AT AN AGE WHEN MOST KIDS AE THINKING ABOUT SCHOOL SPORS IN THE FUTURE, XAVIER ORTIZ WAS FORCED TO CONFRONT A QUESTION NO CHILDREN SHOULD EVER HAVE TO ASK, WOULD THE EVEN BE A TOMORROW?

THE TYPE OF CANCER WAS T CL ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEM, OR TALL FOR SHORT.

OF ALL THE CANCERS, IT'S A MORE COMMON ONE SEEN IN CHILDREN.

I WAS ON THE OLDER SIDE OF THAT.

AT THE AGE OF 13, A CANCER DIAGNOSIS DOESN'T JUST CHAE THE BODY, IT STRIPS AWAY CERTAINTY, REPLACES PLANS H FEAR AND TURNS THE FUTURE O A QUESTION MARK.

FOR XAVIER, THE HARDEST PAT WASN'T JUST THE TREATMENT.

IT WAS THE SILENCE THAT FOLLOWED WHEN EVERYTHING HE ONCE IMAGINED FELT SUDDENLY OUT OF REACH.

OUR SITUATION WAS MUCH WOR, TOO.

AND MY DAD WAS AND STILL IN THE U.S.

NAVY, AND AT THE TIME, HE WAS DEPLOYED ON A U.S.

WARSHIP IN EGYPT, ON E OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE WORLD FROM US.

AND, YOU KNOW, MY MOM HAD THREE YOUNG CHILDREN TO TAE CARE OF, AND SO IT WAS JUST THIS FRANTIC, UNBELIEVABLE EXPERIENCE WHERE MY PARENTS WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT W TO COME TOGETHER AGAIN, HOO ARRANGE THINGS, NOT JUST FR MY HEALTH, BUT FOR MY SIBLINGS.

LITTLE SISTER XYANDRI WALKD THIS PATH WITH HIM.

AND I WAS SCARED TO GO TO SLEEP, THINKING, WHAT IF I WAKE UP AND HE'S NOT THERE ANYMORE?

WHAT BEGAN AS SILENCE AND R SLOWLY BECAME RESILIENT, AD AGAINST THE ODDS, XAVIER SURVIVED.

CARRYING THE WEIT OF THAT JOURNEY AND THE STRENGTH IT GAVE HIM, ALLOG HIM TO SPEAK AT GRADUATION ABOUT HIS BATTLE WITH CANC.

I AM FREE.

AS I RANG THE BIG BELL AT E HOSPITAL TO MARK THE END OF TREATMENT, I REMINISCED ONE MEMORIES, LESSONS AND EXPERIENCES I HAD OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS.

THE BELL RESONATED WITH THE MOMENTS OF STRUGGLE AND PA, BUT IT ALSO RESONATED WITHW I OVERCAME THAT STRUGGLE AD PAIN, AND IT REMINDED ME OF HOW STRONG I REALLY AM.

FROM THAT MOMENT ON, LIFE BECAME ABOUT POSSIBILITY.

GRADUATION WASN'T JUST AN ACHIEVEMENT IT WAS PROOF ON THE FUTURE HE FOUGHT FOR.

AFTER SURVIVING CANCER, THE FUTURE NO LONGER FEELS GUARANTEED, AND THAT CHANGD EVERYTHING.

HE NOW LIVES WITH INTENTIO, GRATITUDE AND PURPOSE, FOCD ON MAKING THE MOST OF EVERY DAY AND GIVING BACK IN THE WAYS HE ONCE ONLY IMAGINED.

I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE I DIDT SURVIVE CANCER TO RETURN TO WHO I WAS; I SURVIVED CANCR TO BECOME WHO I WAS MEANT O BE.

THIS IS EMBRY DULDULAO FROM HAWAI'I TECHNOLOGY ACADEMYR HIKI NO ON PBS HAWAI'I.

>>LAUREN: WELCOME BACK.

NW THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES R STATE HOUSE 39.

LOREN DOCTOLEROC IS A LIFEG WEST O'AHU RESIDENT AND ISA GRADUATE OF WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL AND THE UNIVERSITY F HAWAI'I ─ WEST O'AHU.

FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, H'S WORKED IN ROLES ACROSS NONPROFIT, CULTURAL AND YOUTH-SERVING ORGANIZATION.

AND COREY ROSENLEE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN HAWAI'I AND A MEMBER OF THE ‘EWA NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD.

HE TEACHES HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT AT CAMPBELL HIGH SCHOOL AND PREVIOUSLY SERVD AS PRESIDENT OF THE HAWAI'I STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

START WITH YOU.

WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO RUN R OFFICE?

>> I'M RUNNING FOR OFFICE N SOME WAYS SAME REASON WHY I BECAME A TEACHER.

MY MOM SHE WAS A SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER AT PRINCS KAIULANI.

DAD HE STARTED ORGANIZATION CALLED ADULT FRIENDS FOR YH WORK WITH DOUBLE DOUBLED YOUTH.

HENRY ERR LEA LEARNED FROMS WANTING TO MAKE COMMUNITY BETTER.

LEARNED FROM TEACHER THIRD GRADE REALLY CALLING.

TEACHER NOW FOR 30 YEARS, 0 OF THEM AT CA CAMPBELL HIGH SCHOOL.

FIRST TIME I WALKD INTO CAMPBELL HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOMS REACHING UP TO 100 DEGREES.

SAW STUDENTS PASSING OUT MH AND I THINK FOR FAMILY, WHT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT S IT?

ORGANIZED COMMUNITY ORGANID PARENTS STUDENTS, TEACHERSE WON'T TO THE LEGISLATURE TO FIGHT FOR AIR CONDITIONING.

IT TOOK YEARS BUT BECAUSE ACTIONS THAT WE TOOK, THOUSANDS OF CLASSROOMS ACS THE STATE NOW HAVE AIR CONDITIONING.

THAT ACTIVISM LED TO ME BEG PRESIDENT OF THE HAWAII STE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

AND AS THE PRESIDENT OF HSA THOUGHT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE STUDENT ACROSS THE STATE REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH MONEY THEIR FAMILY ALO HAD, HAD A QUALIFIED TEACH.

REALLY PROUD OF PRESIDENT F HSTA IS WE SET A NATIONAL STANDARD PROGRAM TO MAKE SE THAT TEACHERS WORK IN STAFF EDUCATION, SPECIAL EDUCATIN HAWAII IMMERSION GOT BETTER PAY.

LEFT STILL SO MUCH DO.

TEMPLED OUT AFTER TWO ENTER IT'S.

SO MUCH TO DO.

TWO TERMS SO MUCH TO GIVEK THAT'S WHY I'M RUNNING.

>>Lauren: WHY RUN FOR OFFICE?

>> THANK FOR THAT QUESTION.

OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE.

FOR ME, I'VE BEEN A LIFELOG RESIDENTS WEST OAHU.

BORN ST.

FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER WEST.

NOW QUEEN'S WEST.

I GRADUATED FROM WAIPAHU HH SCHOOL.

THINK ABOUT THIS COMMUNITYI LIKE TO SAY THIS COMMUNITY RAISED ME.

I'LL SHARE THAT IN A STORYS WELL.

HAD THE PRIVILEGE WALKING THROUGH THE COMMUNITY, CANVASSING KNOCKING ON DOOS AND IF I GO IN THE VILLAGE PARK AREA, ONE STREET RUN O MY OLD HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH.

NEXT STREET AFTER THAT, SEE ONE OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS D FAMILY LIVED THERE FOR WELL OVER SEVERAL DECADES.

STREET AFTER THAT, SEE ONEF MY YOUTH PASTORS YOUNGER D. MATTER OF THREE STREET PEOE INVESTED TIME, ENERGY RESOE INTO ME, I FEEL LIKE NOW IM IN A POSITION THAT I CAN SE BACK.

AU CAN I GIVE BACK?

RECIPROCATE SAME LEVEL OF TRUST AND LOVE GONE INTO M?

FOR ME TRULY ABOUT SERVICE.

AND I THINK THIS IS A LOT F OPPORTUNITIES FOR TO YOU SE YOUR COMMUNITY AND I THINKW FOR ME FINDING WHAT IS THE RIGHT POSITION FOR ME DO TO THAT SERVING AT THE LEGISLATURE WHERE I'M GOINO BE ABLE TO TO DO IT TODAY.

>>Lauren: TOP MOST PRESSING ISSUES FACING YOUR DESCRICD AND WHAT DO YOU HEAR FROM E COMMUNITY THAT MATTERS TO M MOST.

>> GO DOOR-TO-DOOR, WE TALK STORY WITH A LOT OF OUR NEIGHBORS.

AS NAVIGATE THAT CONVERSAT, I'M RECOGNIZING THAT OUR NEIGHBORS ARE SORT OF FIGHG WITH THE QUESTION.

THIS QUESTION OF IS THIS TE PLACE THAT I CAN BUILD MY FUTURE?

AND WHAT QUESTION DOES, I THINK IT'S SUMMARIZESES A T OF THE CONCERNS WE FACE HEE WHETHER THAT IS GOING TO BE COST OF LIVING, GOING TO BE SCHOOLS, PUBLIC SAFETY, MAG SURE WE'RE CONNECTED A A ME SURE IT IS A PLACE YOU CAN CALL HOME.

VERY, VERY CRITICAL QUESTI.

AND I THINK ALSO SHOWS THEE IS THIS LACK OF CONFIDENCES THE FUTURE HAS IN TO STO FR US.

GOING DOOR-TO-DOOR LEARNING THAT OUR RESIDENTS HAVE VE, VERY REAL CONCERNS, CONCERS THAT ARE VERY REAL FOR ME S WELL.

FACT THAT THE BEGINNING OF EVERY YEAR, PARTNER, AND ID CONVERSATION OF IS HAWAII GOING TO BE OUR HOME?

AND EVERY YEAR, WE SAY YEA.

GOING TO BE WHERE WE WANT O LIVE.

MAKE THE DECISION AND WE HE TO DO IN ORDER FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.

AND SO THINK ABOUT THAT REALITY, ALL OF ARE FACINGE SHOULD FIND WAYS TO MAKE TT A LITTLE BIT EASIER.

I HOPE THAT IS KIND OF OUTK THAT I CAN TAKE WITH ME INO THE BUILDING.

>>Lauren: FOR YOU, WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE TOP ISSUS THAT YOU HEAR FROM YOUR COMMUNITY?

>> THINK I HEAR OVER AND OR AGAIN AFFORDABILITY, AFFORDABILITY, AFFORDABILI.

REMEMBER MEETING ONE MOM, BELIEVE IT OR NOT SON FORMR STUDENT OF MINE.

TALKING ABOUT SON AND HE HD TO LEAVE GO TO VEGAS.

BOTH OF HER KIDS AFFORD TO LIVE HERE.

KNOCK ON DOORS I MET ONE OF OUR KUPUNA, ON SOCIAL SECURITY.

LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHEC.

SHE'S UNSURE WHETHER SHE CN AFFORD TO LIVE HERE.

COMES TO AFFORDABILITY, LOK AT HOUSING, FOOD COSTS, FAMILIES OF THIRD HIGHEST T IS CHILD CARE.

TRANSPORTATION COSTS.

UTILITY COSTS.

ALL OF THESE WHEN ADD UP, S JUST MAKING IT SO DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE.

LIVE HERE HAWAII MORE PEOPE LEAVING HAWAII EVEN BEAUTIL PLACE THAT WE HAVE, JUST CT AFFORD IT.

SO EACH OF THOSE ARE MAJOR POLICY ISSUES.

JUST TAKE ONE OF THEM, HOUG IS ONE THAT I HEAR THE MOS.

PEOPLE WANT TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD LIVING HERE.

THERE'S MANY WAYS AS A LEGISLATURE WE CAN DEAL WIH THAT THIS ISSUE.

ONE, RIGHT NOW, I BELIEVE STRONGLY THAT WE NEED TO DEDICATE FUNDING SOURCE FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

GONE ON FOR TOO LONG NATIVE HAWAIIANS ARE NOT ABLE TOT HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS.

WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, SOME PLS IN HAWAII, 75% OF CONDOMINS ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE THAT DO NOT LIVE HERE IN HAWAII.

THIRD THING IS MILITARY OWS LARGE TRACKS OF LAND IN HAWAII.

ONE I WOULD LIKE SO TO SEE MILITARY THAT THEY HAVE MOE PEOPLE LIVE ON THE BASE.

NOT ONLY DOES THAT DECREASE HOUSING SUPPLY BUT ALSO DECREASES TRAFFIC AND OUR N AREA.

KALILOA.

GOT 4,000 ACRES.

FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMEN.

I WANT TO SEE US BUILD MORE AFFORDABILITY.

WANT GO OF THE GOVERNMENT T INTO THE AFFORDABILITY INDUSTRY TO MAKE SURE PEOPE IN HAWAII HAVE AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING THEY CAN AFFORD.

>>Lauren: YOU BOTH TALKED ABOUT MAKING HAWAII MORE AFFORDABLE.

SO DID THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.

WAYNE AND DAMAGE.

DAMAGE.I D DANIEL.

I DON'T ANYONE WOULD DISAG.

HOW WOULD THE TWO OF YOU ADDRESS THAT IF ELECTED.

>> THINK ABOUT AFFORDABILIY R, AND WE BRING UP ALL THE DIFFERENT, EXPENSES THAT CE WITH IT, THE A LOT OF PEOPE WORKING ON THAT PROJECT.

CALL IT THAT.

A LOT OF PEOPLE WORK ON THT CONCERN.

HOW DO WE MAKE THINGS JUST COST CHEAPER HERE?

WE LOOK AT AFFORDABILITY, O DIFFERENT OTHER WAYS THAT E CAN APPROACH PROBLEM.

AND THE BREAKDOWN BETWEEN AFFORDABILITY IS WHAT YOU E IN YOUR POCKETED WHAT YOU E TO PAY FOR THINGS.

APPROACH IT FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT CONVERSATION.

TODAY I THINK THAT EMPHASIS HAS TO BE ON WHERE WE ARE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RET SETTING UP YOUNG PEOPLE AND WORKING ADULTS FOR SUCCESS.

SHARE SUCCESS STORY.

I CAN THINK YOUNG LADY GRADUATED WAIPAHU HIGH SCHL 2022.

AT WAIPAHU, WAS ABLE TO JON THE INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY PATHWAY.

FROM THAT EXPERIENCE, AFFOD HER THE OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN THE CARPENTERS UNION APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM.

SINCE THEN, BEEN ABLE TO TO THROUGH THAT PROGRAM.

ON A JOB SITE.

MAKE SEVENTY DOLLARS AN HOR INCLUDES BENEFITS.

THAT'S REAL MONEY TODAY.

THAT MONEY HELPING HER NOT ONLY LIVE HER LIFE HERE HEP TWIN SISTER GOING TO SCHOO.

IN OREGON.

I THINK THAT IS A REALLY AMAZING STORY WE SHOULD ABE TO REPLICATE SO MANY DIFFET WAYS.

CREATE STRONGER PATHWAYS SO YOUNG PEOPLE CAN BE INVOLV, SORRY ENGAGED VERY YOUNG AE AND YOU IDENTIFY WHERE DOET THEY WANT TO MOVE FORWARD O AND MAKE SURE JOBS ARE WEIH FOR THEM ER EN END OTHER E. LEGISLATURE WAYS TO ADVOCAE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND TAKEA LOOK AT, HOW CAN WE MAKE THINGS A LITTLE BIT MORE AFFORDABLE HERE.

>>Lauren: WOULD YOU AGREE N THAT OR ANYTHING YOU WOULD ADD.

>> TALK ABOUT.

GREAT TOPIC.

HOW DO DEVELOP BETTER PAYIG WORKFORCE.

HAD STUDENT HE HATED DOINGY HEESSAYS WOULDN'T SHOW UP E TO CLASS WAS FIRST THING JT BADE STUDENT.

DOES LAZY.

WHATEVER IT IS.

BAD STUDENT FOUND OUT THAT STUDENT WOULD ACTUALLY GETP EARLY EVERY MORNING AND OPN UP THE CULINARY RESTAURANTE HAD A CAMPBELL HIGH SCHOOL.

WILOVED IT.

RIGHT NOW, WE SORT OF MENTALITY THAT COLLEGE OR T FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS.

AND THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD PAYING JOBS IN HAWAII WHERE SHORTAGES CAREER TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION.

WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THIS AREA IS I WANT TO SEEE CREATE SOMETHING SIMILAR TO WHAT MASSACHUSETTS.

STUDENT HALF CREDITS IN HIH SCHOOL CAREER AND TELLING L EDUCATION.

LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL HAVE THE CREDIT AND SKILL NEEDED TOT GOOD PAYING JOBS.

TO FURTHER ON WHAT THE LAUN WAS TALKING ABOUT, ALSO BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD INCREASE MINIMUM WAGE IN HAWAII.

BEEN DOING IT.

STILL NOT ENOUGH.

NO ONE WORKS JOB WORKS HARD EVERY SINGLE DAY SHOULD HAE TO BE ABLE TO COME HOME AND NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF FAMILIES AFFORD GROCERIES.

WE DON'T NEED MINIMUM WAGE.

WE NEED A LIVING WAGE IN HAWAII.

SOMETHING THAT I WOULD PURE AS LEGISLATOR IN HAWAII.

>>Lauren: YOUR DISTRICT RAN BY REPRESENT THE, REPRESENT THE REPUBLICAN AS DEMOCRATS WHY DO YOU FEEL L SHOULD BE DISTRICT SHOULD BE REPRESED ANY DEMOCRAT.

>> EXTREME FOR RECIPROCAL REFOR ARE BEING.LOOK AT SOG RECORD.

DEMOCRATSER DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WOULD AGREE ON ISSUES HE VOTED AGAINST, HEALTH CARE FOR COMMUNITY E FOLD FOR KEIKI.

TOOK THE TIME IN OFFICE AND FOCUSED ON GOING TO EWA MA, NOT EVEN IN OUR DISTRICT TO PROTEST SEEING A PRIDE FLA.

AT THE SAME TIME, MANY ISSS THAT WERE NOT BEING ADDRES.

HE CAME INTO OFFICE INSTEAF IDEA HOW IS SERVE THE COMMUNITY CAME IN WITH HIS AGENDA.

HE HART HURT THEM.

ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK S IMPORTANT, IF WE GET ELECT, IF I GET ELECTED IN OFFICEO CHOWCAN I SERVE THE COMMUN?

TAKEAWAY SO.

EXTREME NATUE WHAT THEY'VE HAD FOR THE LT FOUR YEARS MAKE SURE PUTTIG OUT PROGRAMS ACTUALLY GOINO HELP PEOPLE.

>>Lauren: FOR YOU, DEMOCRA, WHY DO YOU WANT TO SEE A DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE FOR YOUR DISTRICT.

>> I THINK COMES DOWN TO IS CORY MENTIONED PEOPLE THAT ARE, READY AND WILLING TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY.

AND SO SHARE ANOTHER STORY ABOUT BEEN OUT CANVASSING.

I'M KNOCKING O DOORS SAYIG HI.

ONE PARTICULAR HOUSE, AND HOWZIT?

LAUREN I WANT TO BE OUR STE REPRESENTATIVE.

COMES OUT RUNNING A DEMOCRT OR REPUBLICAN?

WHICH SHARE WITH HIM, I'M N THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

WORDS TO ME PRETTY CHOICE.

REPLICATE ON THIS SET TODA.

I SAT THERE SORT OF WONDERG WHY IT WAS THAT WE HAD THAT KIND OF CONVERSATION.

WHAT IT TOLD ME THAT IS THA LEVEL OF FRUSTRATION EXISTN IN COMMUNITY.

I WANT TO BELIEVE IF WE TOK THE TIME TO HAVE A LITTLE T OF DEEPER CONVERSATION TOOK THE TIME TO UNDERSTAND GET PAST THAT PARTICULAR RHETO.

EITHER FIND OUT WE'RE ALIGD A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS.

I DON'T THINK BETWEEN OF US HERE AND TWO CAME BEFORE US HERE, DISAGREE THAT AFFORDABILITY SAY PRIMARY ISSUE.

THAT IS NOT THE ONLY ISSUE THAT WE'RE ALL GOING TO AGE ON.

SO WHETHER IT IS YOU A ALIN YOURSELF AS DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, AT THE END OF E DAY ABLE SERVE YOUR COMMUN IF WE DID DO THAT IN A WAYS THAT A ALLOWS TO, WORK WITH EVERYONE, I'M PRETTY SURE T GENTLEMAN HAD THOSE CHOICE WORDS FOR ME HAD REALLY GOD IDEAS TO HOW CAN HE CAN HET THAT TAKE A LOOK AT AFFORDABILITY.

TALK THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT, SAME CONCERNS MAYBE TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO ITM SURE WE COULD HAVE FOUND A GOOD SOLUTION.

>> ACTUALLY THAT I THAT OVR THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS,,E OF THE MAJOR RESPONSIBILITS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE STATE LEGISLATURE IS ACTUALLY REPAIRING SOME OF THE DAMAE FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRAT.

THERE HAVE BEEN LIKE A TRILLION DOLLARS CUTS TO MEDICAID.

WE'VE SEEN SNAP BENEFIT CU.

JUST LOOK AT NUMBERS ABOUTA THOUSAND PEOPLE IN OUR DISTRICT COULD POTENTIALLY LOSE THEIR HEALTH CARE.

WE HAVE 200 PEOPLE STRICT GOING TO LOSE SNAP BENEFITS KIDS GO HUNGRY.

KUPUNA ARE GOING TO GO HUN.

CUT MEALS ON WHEELS.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT LEGISLATURE HAD TO DO THIS YEAR IS SPEND A LOT OF OUR RESOURCES JUST TRYING TO ME SURE THAT WE COULD FULLY FD THESE PROGRAMS.

OTHERS PEOPLE LOSING HEALTH CARE AND LOSING FOOD.

RUN REASONS WHY IS IMPORTAT TO ELECT A DEMOCRAT TO THIS POSITION, WE'RE GOING TO HE TO GO AGAINST THESE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION POLICIES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ACTUALLY TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE INR COMMUNITY.

>>Lauren: WE TALKED ABOUT AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING.

AFFORDABILITY IN GENERAL.

YOU MENTIONED EDUCATION.

YOU DID TOO.

BEING KEY PATH TO HELPING T ISSUE.

WHAT OTHER TOPICS OF CONCEN DO YOUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE?

IS IT PUBLIC SAFETY?

IS IT HEALTH CARE?

WHAT ELSE IS BIG FOR DISTRT 39.

>> YEAH.

THANKS FOR YOU LOG US TO ST OF GO THESE MANY STRESSES COMMUNITIES FACING.

OTHER ONE WORTH TALKING ABT TODAY IS PUBLIC SAFETY.

A LOT OF CONSERVATION WE HE AT THE DOOR PEOPLE LIKE TO REMINISCE SOME OF THE GOODD DAYS.

DAYS WERE ABLE TO SE NATE STREET -- NAVIGATE STREETS HANG OUT WITH FRON.

SHOULD BE ASPIRING TO GET K TO.

WITH FRIEND.

NOT TO SAY STREET AREN'T SE TODAY YOU ABOUT COULD THEYE SAFER?

ABSOLUTELY.

ARE THERE THINGS WE COULD E DOING TO KEEP OUR PEOPLE SAFER?

ABSOLUTELY.

ONE OF THE BIG CONCERNS THI HEAR COMING OFF DOOR IS ISS AROUND eBIKES.

THEY ARE VERY FUNCTIONAL.

DON'T GET ME WRONG.

SOME OF THEM LOOK PRETTY DG COOL.

I UNDERSTAND THE APPEAL TO.

I THINK WE HAVE TO BE REALY INTENTIONAL HOW WE INTEGRAE THAT INTO OUR COMMUNITY.

BE REALLY INTENTIONAL ABOUT HOW WE EDUCATE ALL RIDERS N HOW TO BE SAFE ON THESE STREETS AND MAKE SURE WE'RE NAVIGATING THEM TOGETHER.

BOTH PEDESTRIANS DRIVERS AD eBIKE USER.

CALLS TO BIGGER CONVERSATIN ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.

THERE'S A CERTAIN ESSENCE T EXISTS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND CERTAIN LOVE THAT WE AL HAVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.

REALLY NEED TO GET BACK TOWARDS.

I THINK IT'S HAVING GOOD CONVERSATIONS, LEGISLATORSD COMMUNITY LEADERS CREATING SPACES FOR PEOPLE TO CONNE, AND GATHER AND SHARE AND FELLOWSHIP WITH IDEAS.

AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING OUT FOR ONE ANOTHES WELL.

>>Lauren: FOR YOU, WHAT ARE YOU HEARING?

>> I AGREE.

HE BIERKS REALLY BIG PROBL.

I'M ON THE EWA NEIGHBORHOO.

ON THE EWA NEIGHBORHOOD BOD LAST 3 YEARS.

eBIKES HAD A MEETING LAST NIGHT WHERE I WAS PUSHING POLICE DEPARTMENT TO DO MOE ENFORCEMENT ON THE ISSUE.

BEEN PUSHING THEM IN THE PT AND COUPLE MONTHS AGO, I M, JUST BACK UP SEE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS.

MY COMMUNITY, SURE WE HAVE YOUNG KIDS DOING WH WHEELIS WITHOUT HELMETS SPEEDING UP AND DOWN.

ANY PARENT ADULT IS WORRIED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF OUR KE.

CAMPBELL HIGH SCHOOL HUGE ACCIDENT HAPPEN WITH OUR KS RIDING eBIKES.

KIDS ARE BEING INJURED.

SOMETHING THAT COMMUNITY ND TO TAKE IN.

I'M THE GLAD LEGISLATOR TOK SOME STEPS LEGISLATIVE SESN TO MONITOR THIS ONE.

NEXT STEP IS GOING TO BE GG TO BE ENFORCEMENT OF IT?

IT WAS A SHAME FOR YEARS WE KNEW ONE OF THE BIG ISSUESS FIREWORKS.

ILLEGAL FIREWORKS.

ASK ME A COUPLE YEARS AGO,S THE BIG PRON PROBLEM IS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, PEOPLE TALKIG ABOUT CONSTANT BARRAGE OF ILLEGAL FIREWORKS.

TOOK SOMEONE DYING BEFORE T REALLY BECAME SERIOUS ISSU.

SHOWED THAT WITH THE LEGISLATURE BROUGHT PEOPLE TOGETHER, FROM DIFFERENT PT OF COMMUNITY, FELD FED STAE COUNTY, COULD SOLVE THIS PROBLEM IT'S NOT DONE YET I CAN TELL YOU THAT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, A LOT LESS ILLEGAL FIREWORKS AND SHOWS SOMETIMES IF WE MAKE THIS A PRIORITY, WE CAN DO THING Y YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE eBIKES IF OR COMMUNITY JUST TO GET RID T HAVE PROBLEM.

>>Lauren: IF ELECTED, FOR THE TWO OF YOU, WHAT IS THE VERY FIRST THING THAT YOU T TO TACKLE IN OFFICE?

>> SO WHEN IT COMES ISSUE E THAT, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS YOU WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT IS SUCH COMMON SENSE T IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE YS AGO?

ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT I TK IP IMPACTS OUR COMMUNITY.

SUCH COMMON SENSE, IS PAID FAMILY LEAVE.

RIGHT NOW, IN HAWAII, IF YOU'RE WORKING AT AN JOB AD WOMAN HAS TO GIVE BIRTH, TE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT SHE'S GOING TO HAVE A JOB.

HAS TO TAKE OFF TIME.

SICK LEAVE MAY NOT GET PAID AT .

ESPECIALLY LOWER WAGE JOBS.

YOU EVER KENNY TERUYA IN TE WORLD COUNTRY IN THE WORLD EXCEPT UNITED STATES AND PU NEW GUINEA DON'T OFFER PAID FAMFAMILY LEAVE, NOT JUST R WOMAN.

KUPUNA GET SICK, OFTENTIMEE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM S WELL.

PAID FAMILY LEAVE IS OPPORTUNITY FOR TO US TAKE CARE OF OUR KUPUNAS WELL.

SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT LEGISLATURE HAS JUST KICKED CAN NOT DEALT WITH IT, I TK ONE OF THE FIRST PRIORITIEI HAVE PASS PAID FAMILY LEAV.

>>Lauren: WHAT YOUR TOP PRIORITY IF ELECTED.

>> FORTUNATE TO EARN THE TT AND VOTES IN MY COMMUNITY.

FIRST THING HAPPEN GET INTO THE DOOR IS REALLY DESCRIBD TO ME AS FIRST SEVERAL DAYS HERE, DRINKING FROM A FIRE HOSE.

A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU CN LEARN A LOT OF THINGS YOU D TO SORT OF UNDERSTAND DIFFERENT COMPLEXITIES THAT EXIST THERE.

PLANNING WALKING INTO THE R READY TO LEARN AND READY TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT ARE COMMUNITY FAITH FROM THE LENS OF LEGISLATOR.

I THINK TODAY, THESE ARE RL LIVED EXPERIENCES THAT I'M GOING THROUGH.

AND I THINK SOLUTIONS THATE HAVE TO PRACTICAL AND FUNCTIONAL BUT PULLING LEVS AND MAKING SURE WE'RE ABLEO OPERATE AS A LEGISLATURE CRITICAL THING TO DO.

MORE TANGIBLE ABOUT THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ACCOMPLISH.

MENTIONED IT A LITTLE BIT T THE TOP IDEA HOW DO WE CREE STRONG WORKFORCE DEVELOPMET AND AMPLIFY THE PROGRAMS TT EXIST TODAY, SO WE CAN GETR YOUNG PEOPLE AND WORKING ADULTS INTO THOSE PROGRAMSD WORKING AND FOR THOSE WANTO EXPLORE.

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES, MAYBE THOSE PATH PAY WAYS DON'T EXIST TODAY, T PATHWAYS HAU CAN WE AMPLIFY AND FOR THOE EXPERIENCES AS WELL.

>>Lauren: FACEBOOK COMMENT.

GET OUR VIEWERS INVOLVED.

SO THE TWO OF CAN YOU TACKE THIS ONE.

ASKING WHAT WILL YOU DO TO STOP THE CONSTRUCTION IN HAWAII.

>> CORRUPTION IN HAWAII, I THINK DEFINITELY SENSE OF FRUSTRATION.

THAT OUR RESIDENTS NEIGHBOS FEEL.

AND IT'S WELL PLACED.

I THINK UNFORTUNATE WE I TK ABOUT CONSTRUCTION AND PUBC TRUST AS A WHOLE.

WAY I LIKE TO THINK ABOUT T TRUST IS EARNED OVER TIME.

CAN AGREE ON THAT EXPERIENE FOR ME TRUST IS EARNED AT E DOOR.

EARNED IN THE YARD.

HANGIG OUT IN THE GARAGE AND REALY BUILDING THESE CONNECTIONS.

AT VERY GRASSROOTS AT HOME EXPERIENCE.

THAT WAY, THEY KNOW WHO WEE WE KNOW WHO OUR COMMUNITY S AND ALL KNOW WORKING ON TO FIND SOLUTIONS AND WORKING TOOTH TOGETHER SO SOLVE TH.

BEYOND ELECTION CYCLE SHOUI BE ELECTED FORTUNATE ENOUGO DO CONTINUING TO BE PRESEN, VISIT ABLE AND ENGAGED.

VISIBLE AND ENGAGED.

MAYBE THE IDEA OF ME SHOWIG UP OR ANY ONE OF US SHOWING AFTER THE ELECTION, NOT SOMETHING THAT I'M GOING TO IWAMOTOLY GET CLOSELY ON.

REMOTELY.

COMMITTED TO BE PRESENTS CONTINUE BEING PRESENTS AND ENGAGE WITH OUR COMMUNITY.

>>Lauren: LEGISLATOR IS A PUBLIC SERVANT.

AS A TEACHER, BEEN TRYING O HELP THE COMMUNITY FOR YEA.

BIGGEST THING WE CAN DO TO DEAL WITH CORRUPTION IS WE NEED TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.

ANY TIME MONEY IS CREEPINGN THAT IS GOING TO LEAD TO THINGS LIKE CORRUPTION.

THERE'S STUDY O YOU HAVE PRINCETON SHAPES A LOT OF Y BELIEVES.

WHAT SHOWED WAS IS THAT IE WEALTHY 10% SUPPORTED A BI, THAT IT HAD A THREE TIMES HIGHER RATE OF GETTING PAS, IF THE MAJORITY OF PUBLIC SUPPORTED IT, THE LEGISLATURE'S JOB SHOULD BO DO WHAT IS BEST FOR THE PUBLIC.

NOT JUST FOR THE WEALTHY.

AND THE BEST WAY WE CAN DO THAT IS WHEN STRONGLY BELIE IN NEED TO HAVE PUBLICLY FUNDED ELECTION.

REASON WHY WE DO THAT IS IF EVERY CANDIDATE GOT THE SAE AMOUNT MONEY, THEN OUTSIDE INFLUENCES PEOPLE WEALTHY,G BUSINESS, THEY CAN'T BUY AN ELECTION.

AND GIVES EVERYONE THE SAME VOICE.

SO LEGISLATURES TRY THIS FR YEARS.

MADE A LITTLE BIT OF IN-RO.

TOUCHED IT.

BUT IT'S GOOD ENOUGH.

WE NEED TO GO FURTHER.

LOVE TO SEE IT GET TO A POT WHERE OTHER PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE PUBLIC FUNDED ELECTION.

LIKE THAT TO HAPPEN HERE IN HAWAII.

>>Lauren: IF ELECTED, BOTH OF YOU WOULD BE FRESHMAN REPRESENTATIVES.

THROW THE QUESTION TO YOU FIRST.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ME SURE YOUR VOICE IS HEARD?

>> TELL YOU A STORY.

CAN I?

IF REMEMBER WHEN GOVERNOR LINGLE IMPOSED FURLOUGH FRIDAYS.

I WOULD GROUP OF PARENTS WT TO THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AD WE DID A SIT-IN.

I WAS WILLING TO GET ARRES.

I BROUGHT MY YOUNG SON, ATE TIME, AND ALL OF US WOULD E BEEN POTENTIALLY COULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.

WE DID THE RIGHT THING TO .

SOMETIMES YOU GOT TO FIGHTO DO THE RIGHT THING.

AND WHETHER TITUS AIR CONDITIONING MAKE SURE YOU FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT THING, MAKE SURE THAT OUR KIDS HAE FOOD, FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT THING.

THROUGHOUT MY HISTORY, BEEN DEFINITELY WILLING TO BUCKE SYSTEM TO MAKE SURE THAT WO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THE COMMUNITY.

AND EVEN IF SOMETIMES DOEST MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY, I STILL THINK THAT EVEN AS A LEGISLATOR, THAT IS TOP PRIORITY IS TO FIGHT FOR COMMUNITY.

>> FOR YOU?

HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD AS NEWBY LAWMAKER.

>> SURE.

I WOULD SAY NEWBY TO LAWMAKERRING BUT NOT A NEWY TO LEADERSHIP.

I THINK THAT IS WHERE I WAT TO CALL UPON SHOULD I BE ELECTED TO OFFICE, WAY THAI VIEW THAT IS UNDERSTANDING THAT AS LEGISLATORS, OUR PRIORITY IS TO REPRESENT OR COMMUNITY.

PRETTY SURE GO DOWN THE OFL 51 HOUSE MEMBERS SOME OF TE CONCERNS THAT HAPPEN, ON TE HILO SIDE, OF HAWAII ISLAN, ALL WAY OUT TO WAIMEA SIDEF KAUAI ALL VERY SIMILAR CONCERNS.

AND THE REALITY IS WE JUST HAVE TO BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER TO NAVIGATE THAT.

AND ONE THING THAT I PRIDE MYSELF ON, BE ABLE TO CREAE STRONG RELATIONSHIPS, AND STRONG CONNECTIONS, AND USG THOSE THAT PARTICULAR SKILL SET AND USING VOICES OF COLLECTIVE IN THAT WAY TO REALLY MOVE THINGS FORWARD, UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE'S WHY, UNDERSTAND PEOPLE'S ERIN TENSION SHALL SHALL INTENTS GET DOWN TO THAT LEVEL, AS COLLECTIVE CAN MAKE REALLY, REALLY IMPACTFUL CHANGES.

>>Lauren: IN 30 SECONDS I KNOW IS TOUGH DO, TELL THE VOTERS WHY YOU DESERVE THER VOTE.

>> THANK YOU.

WELL, FOR ME, I LIKE TO THK THAT WHEN VOTERS SEE ME, I HOPE THEY SO 'VERSION OF THEMSELVES.

SEE A VERSION OF THEMSELVES LOCAL BOY FROM WAIPAHU ARE, BEEN FORTUNATE TO CERTIFICF TOUCH ALL DIFFERENT CORNERF COMMUNITY.

TRACK AND FIELD COACH KAPOI HIGH SCHOOL.

YOUTH LEADERS WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS FEEL EMPOWERED.

QUICK, TEAM THAT HEADING TO MINNESOTA TODAY TO COMPETEN THE USA GAMES.

CHEER ON 30 ATHLETES.

HOW DO WE, I HOPE THAT THEY CAN SEE THAT VERSION.

VERSE OF THEMSELVES AND WIH THAT IN MIND, TRUST THAT I WILL DO MY BEST TO REPRESET THEM.

>> W LESSONS I LEARN PRESIT OF THE HAWAII STATE TEACHES ASSOCIATION MAY NOT ALWAYS WIN.

BUT PEOPLE WANT TO SEE YOUT THERE FIGHTING.

FIRST TIME WE WENT TO TRY O GET AIR CONDITIONS, WE GOTGOTNOTHING TOOK YEARS.

EVEN ME RUN F RUNNING FORCE OFFICERS.

THIRD TIME.

LOST BY 1 VOTES LAST TIME.

ARE YOU GOING TO DO THIS AGAIN?

LOST BY 11 VOTES.

BEST LESSONS FOR STUDENT IS NOT ALWAYS GOING TO WIN.

BUT TO GIVE UP.

DO YOU KEEP ON FIGHTING?

AND I THINK THE COMMUNITY WANTS SOMEONE THAT IS GOINO BE IN THEIR CORNER, ADVOCAE FOR THEM AND FIGHT FOR THE.

THAT'S WHY I THINK I CAN DO THE JOB.

>>Lauren: HAVE A COUPLE SECOND.

END ON POSITIVE N. TELL ME YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANT IN YOUR DISTRICT THAT I LIKE GOING TO.

>> IT'S DISTRICT ADJACENT,E AND PARTNER WITH BIG BREAKT FOODIE IT'S.

SHIRO AND GET BANANA PANCA.

>>Lauren: I DON'T THINK ANYONE WOULD DISAGREE.

>> GREAT RESTAURANT IN OUR COMMUNITIES CALLED TY VILLE KUNIA.

GREAT SPRING ROLES.

IT.

HAI.

LOVE TAKING MY FAMILY THER.

LOVE EATING THERE.

GOOD FOOD GIVING OUT NICE LITTLE AD FOR THEM HERE.

>>Lauren: MAYBE BECAUSE I'M HUNGRY.

ENDEN TO THAT HE Q THANK YU FOR.

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