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By CALEB JONES and
AUDREY McAVOY
Associated Press
HONOLULU —
Hawaii Gov.
David Ige
won the
Democratic
primary in
his bid for a
second term
in office
Saturday,
defeating U.S. Rep.
Colleen Hanabusa,
who gave up her
seat in Congress to
run for governor.
Ige had a challenging
first term amid a
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series of natural and
man-made disasters,
including a false missile
alert that sent the state
into a panic in January,
a major embarrassment
for his administration.
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But the governor’s
handling of Kilauea
volcano’s latest eruption,
which destroyed
more than 700 homes
and displaced thousands,
as well as devastating
flooding on
Kauai got him back on
track and he came out
ahead of Hanabusa.
Ige campaigned on
his efforts on providing
more affordable
housing and addressing
the state’s homelessness
problem. Hawaii
has had the highest
rate of homeless per
capita in the nation
for many years and
Democrat state Sen. Lorraine
Inouye appeared to be heading
toward victory Saturday
in her re-election bid.
The Hilo incumbent
representing District
4 was ahead of challenger
Heather Kimball
of Papaikou by a little
more than 10 percentage
points in Saturday’s primary
election — 4,456
votes, or 55.4 percent of
votes cast, compared to
Kimball’s 3,580 votes, or
44.5 percent, with eight
of 12 precincts reporting.
Just after 9 p.m., Inouye
said she was “happy where we are,” as
was her campaign committee, but “it
seems like I’m not too comfortable yet,
until I see at least the next (returns).”
Inouye, 78, of Paukaa, is a political
veteran and chairs the Senate
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INSIDE TODAY’S EDITION
Ige defeats Hanabusa
Governor to face Rep. Andria
Tupola in November election
HANABUSA
Kierkiewicz,
O’Hara in close
contest for
Puna council seat
Hawaii County Council incumbents
fared well in Saturday’s primary election
except in District 4,
where Puna Councilwoman
Eileen O’Hara was trailing
challenger Ashley
Kierkiewicz as of deadline.
With one of four precincts
reporting in the lava-ravaged
east Puna district,
Kierkiewicz was leading with
1,429 votes, or 55.4 percent.
O’Hara had 1,150 votes,
or 44.6 percent. The tally
also includes early walk-in
and absentee mail ballots.
Kierkiewicz, a 32-yearold
Hawaiian Paradise
Park resident, said she
was staying humble but excited as
she saw the results come in. She said
voters were responding to her “aloha
driven, clean, positive campaign.”
“We retained the same message over
the last 10 months, and we worked
INOUYE
KIMBALL
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Hawaii Gov. David Ige greets supporters at his campaign headquarters Saturday in Honolulu.
Inouye appears
to prevail in
tight state
Senate race
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Tom Mackay, whose Luana Street home in Leilani Estates was lost in the
recent lava outbreak, was the first in line to vote at Pahoa Community
Center.
By TOM CALLIS
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
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