Vanessa Medeiros is running for the Maui County Council seat representing Kahului, which is currently held by Don Guzman. She owns Positive Pathways, a finishing school for young women. During Charmaine Tavares' mayoral administration, Medeiros served as Housing and Human Concerns director from February 2007 to September 2008. Though clearly capable and competent at her … [Read more...] about Know your Maui County 2016 election candidate: Vanessa Medeiros
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Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Danny Pekus
Ok, the Hawaii Primary Election is over! Time to start prepping for the General Election in November! And what better way than by getting to know a few of the candidates. Danny Pekus is one of them. He ran unopposed in the Primary as a Republican in the 11th District state representative race. That seat is currently held by Democrat Kaniela Ing, who just trounced Democratic … [Read more...] about Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Danny Pekus
UPDATED: Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Tulsi Gabbard
And in what will likely be the last of these Know Your Candidate posts we put up before the Aug. 13 Hawaii Primary Election, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D–Hawaii, just squeaks in under the deadline with her completed questionnaire. First elected to the U.S. Congress in 2012, Gabbard–who is also a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard and Iraq War veteran– has been an … [Read more...] about UPDATED: Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Tulsi Gabbard
CORRECTED: Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Richard Abbett
NOTE: This post originally mis-identified the location of Richard Abbett's 2014 candidacy. It has been corrected. Two years ago, Richard Abbett was living on Oahu, and he ran for a Honolulu City Council Hawaii County Council seat. He lost, badly, winning just 665 votes. Now he lives in Wailuku and he's taking on House Speaker Joe Souki, easily the most powerful guy in the … [Read more...] about CORRECTED: Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Richard Abbett
Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Alika Atay
Alika Atay is one of five candidates for the Maui County Council seat representing Wailuku, Waihee and Waikapu. As a measure of the competitiveness of the race, all five candidates filled out and returned MauiTime's election questionnaires (the others are Joe Blackburn, Keith Regan, Dain Kane and Hana Steel; click here to read their questionnaires). Atay is a political … [Read more...] about Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Alika Atay