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" It's time to focus all of our efforts on renewables. We will oppose the building of LNG facilities. "

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" I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of housing has gone up a lot. "

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" I have reached the conclusion that Hawaii does not need LNG in our future. "

" I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law. "

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" There will be no name-calling when I disagree with anyone, no disparaging remarks toward anyone, no taking sole credit for collective achievements or blaming others when things go wrong. "

" When it was first proposed, I was willing to support it as a 'transitional fuel' because it had some clear advantages for Hawaii. Much has changed since then. LNG will no longer save us any money. "

" It's about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say. "

" I think it would be more beneficial to protection of species if we could focus our efforts rather than paint a broad-brush area that is so enormous that active management is very, very difficult. "

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" I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level. "

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" I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven't been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires - a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand. "

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