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At our last general membership meeting, in addition to re-asserting our endorsement of Daniel Akaka for U.S. Senate, we discussed a few key races where our support may help progressive candidates get elected to office. While other candidates are quite worthy of our endorsement, the consensus of the group was that it might be more effective to focus our efforts on particularly “close” races rather than highlighting all candidates that might support our mission.

Just over 2 weeks ago we sent out an email announcing our intent to hold a special vote amongst our membership for whether or not to endorse the candidates below. As I understand it, most of the candidates that questionaires were sent to have not replied… so we will have to go on whatever other information we can gather.

If you have a piece of information about any of these races that you would like to share… feel free to add a comment.

Potential Priority Help Candidates:

State Senate:

• Tokuda, Jill - Dist 24 (Windward Oahu)
• Yamamoto, George - Dist 19 (vs Mike Gabbard!)

State House:

• McKelvey, Angus - Dist 10 (West Maui)
• Abe, Mike - Dist 19 (Kaimuki)
• Belatti, Della Au - Dist 25 (Makiki)
• Moepono, Sesnita - Dist 27(Liliha-Kapalama)
• Rhoads, Karl - Dist 28 (Downtown)
• Sugimura, Jane - Dist 32 (Aiea)
• Har, Sharon - Dist 40 (Kapolei)

Board of Education:

• Iwamoto, Kim Coco
• Knudsen, Karen

U.S. House, 2nd CD: [Note - only residents of the 2nd CD will be able to vote for this one.]

• Hirono, Mazie