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Editor’s note:For Hawaii’s Aug. 9 primary, Civil Beat asked candidates to answer some questions.
The following came from Ikaika Anderson, one of seven Democratic candidates for U.S. representative for Hawaiis 1st Congressional District.
The district is essentially urban Honolulu, but it stretches from Hawaii Kai in East Honolulu to Waipahu in west Oahu and Mililani in central Oahu. The district includes Pearl City, Waimalu, Aiea and the downtown area.
Go to Civil Beat’s Elections Guide for general information, and check out other candidates on the Primary Election Ballot.
Name: Ikaika Anderson
Office: Congressional District 1
Party: Democrat
Profession:Vice chair, Honolulu City Council; vice president, Hali‘ipua Flowers; Realtor Asssociate, PY Inc.
Education:Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa; The Kamehameha Schools
Age: 36
Community Organizations:Kamehameha Schools alumni associ
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Former Honolulu Council Chair Ikaika Anderson has received a key endorsement from the powerful carpenters union in his bid to become Hawaii’s next lieutenant governor, but one of his Democratic opponents — state House Finance Chair Sylvia Luke — has endorsements and “recommendations” from 11 labor unions and other organizations with just over a month until the Aug. 13 Democratic primary election.
Anderson and Luke are the most recognized elected officials in the four-person Democratic race for lieutenant governor.
Anderson, like candidates up and down the Democratic and Republican primary ballots, has been campaigning on the urgency to build more affordable homes across the state to help local families and dissuade young adult residents and kupuna from moving to less expensive communities out of Hawaii.
Also, he has been urging construction of more “kauhale” communities across the state to address homelessness, as he helped
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Editor’s note: For Hawaii’s Aug. 13 Primary Election, Civil Beat asked candidates to answer some questions about where they stand on various issues and what their priorities will be if elected.
The following came from Ikaika Anderson, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor. The other Democratic candidates are Keith Amemiya, Daniel Cunningham, Sylvia Luke, Sherry Menor-McNamara and Sam Puletasi.
Go to Civil Beat’s Election Guide for general information, and check out other candidates on the Primary Election Ballot.
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1. What is the biggest issue facing Hawaii, and what would you do about it?
The most acute issue pressing Hawaii right now is the lack of affordable housing. Increasing numbers of younger and older residents alike now find themselves unable to live in the place where they’ve resided for their entire lives, and that is changing and even upending the islands’ traditional social structure. In , about 75% of those who had been born in Ha