Hawaii Announces Candidate Endorsements
Contact: Laurie Field, Hawaii Legislative Director and Public Affairs Manager: 808-382-1107
For Immediate Release: July 17, 2018 (Updated: July 17, 2018, 11:10 p.m.)
HONOLULU — Today, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii (PPVNH), announced its slate of endorsed candidates. PPVNH is proud to support candidates like Tracy Arakaki, who will work to ensure that Hawaii continues to protect and promote sexual and reproductive health and justice.
Laurie Field, PPVNH Hawaii Legislative Director and Public Affairs Manager, stressed the importance of electing candidates who will lead these efforts in Hawaii.
“In 2018, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii is all in. Hawaii people believe that everyone deserves the freedom and opportunity to control their health and lives,” said Field. “We’re tired of the federal government’s attempts to strip us of our health care by rolling out rules and policies that undermine our basic rights and freedoms. We won’t stand for it and neither will our endorsed candidates - all of whom have pledged to join us in the fight to ensure that all Hawaii people have the ability to lead healthy, full lives.”
The following candidates have earned PPVNH’s endorsement by providing dependable leadership and support for reproductive health care and justice and Planned Parenthood services.
State House of Representatives
- House District 2 - Chris Todd
- House District 3 – Ron Onishi
- House District 5 – Jeanne Kapela
- House District 6 – Nicole Lowen
- House District 8 – Troy Hashimoto, Mary Wagner – dual endorsement
- House District 11 – Tina Wildberger
- House District 12 – Tiare Lawrence
- House District 13 – Lynn DeCoite
- House District 23 – Dale Kobayashi
- House District 30 – Sonny Ganaden
- House District 32 – Linda Ichiyama Chong
- House District 33 – Tracy Arakaki
- House District 34 – Gregg Takayama
- House District 36 – Marilyn Lee
- House District 41 – Lynn Robinson-Onderko
- House District 42 – Jake Schafer
- House District 46 – Lei Learmont, Amy Perruso – dual endorsement
- House District 48 – Jessica Wooley
- House District 49 – Natalia Hussey-Burdick
- House District 50 – Cynthia Thielen
State Senate
- Senate District 3 – Brenda Ford
- Senate District 4 – Lorraine Inouye
- Senate District 6 – Roz Baker
- Senate District 7 – J. Kalani English
- Senate District 19 – Matt LoPresti
- Senate District 21 – Maile S. L. Shimabukuro
- Senate District 24 – Jarrett Keohokalole
County Council
- Hawaii County – Rebecca Villegas
- Honolulu County – Tyler Dos Santos-Tam, Carol Fukunaga
- Kauai County – Mason Chock, Luke Evslin, Kipukai Kualii