Hawaii State Representative, Dist 34
Duties: The Hawaii State House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Hawaii State Legislature. The Hawaii House of Representatives is a part-time body.Areas Represented: Waiau, a portion of Pearl City, Pacific PalisadesHow Elected: The house consists of 51 members elected from an equal number of respective representative districts. A Representative must be a Hawaii resident not less than three years, is at least 18 years old, and is a qualified voter of the representative district from which the person seeks to be elected. Candidates for state legislative offices who are nominated in the primary election and are unopposed in the general election will be deemed elected to the office sought after the primary election regardless of the number of votes received by that candidate (Hawaii State Constitution, Article III, Section 4).Term: Two years, not subject to term limits.Base Salary (FY2024): $72,348 plus $225/day if living outside Oahu, $10/day for members living on Oahu; Speaker of the House - $81,024
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DUPIO, Gaius, II
(Rep)
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TAKAYAMA, Gregg
(Dem)
Please provide a brief Candidate Statement describing why you are running for this office and why you are qualified to hold this office.
What is the biggest issue facing your district, and what would you do about it?
Hawai`i's economy is still heavily reliant on tourism. What, if anything, should be done differently about tourism and the economy?
What steps would you take to ensure that the state has resources to meet emergency needs in addition to supporting the state's annual budget?
Education
Pearl city high school
Community/Military Service
Pearl city
I choose to apply for this job simply due to the fact that nothing gets done in a reasonable amount of time and without any problems such as cost, time frame, planning and ideas. My qualifications are that I am able to work well with my hands, think critically during times of high level of stress and my way to communicate problems while executing a solution is something tax payers would like to see.
In pearl city homeless has become an eye sore, sadly the legislature has done everything to make them a victim of society. My plan would be to reintroduce a plantation style way of living we need to have them work and clean the parks they inhabit some are mental unstable but the job of putting rubbish in the trash isn’t rocket science. Also we shouldn’t be tolerating the mentally unstable I understand that they have a screw loose but there are actual elderly folks in need of medical aid and assistance so removing the mentally unstable out of society is what needs to be done.
I travel a lot and in my travels what I find to enjoy is what average citizens of the location I’m traveling to do. Boosting local businesses would be very simple and probably the most simplest thing you’ve ever read. Advertising local sports not just college games but also high schools games push the out of state money to fund small towns that get revenue only from the native citizens. Even little craft fairs or farmer market exposure people that travel want to see how we live not just the commercial side of things but the actual roots of or day to day life.
Stop building homes and start building more fire stations, medical stations, police stations there has to be a requirement of a certain amount of aid towards the amount of citizens in the infrastructure otherwise when a disaster hits the excuse would be we were not prepared. To me that is a requirement of our elected officials to always be prepared.
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