Who should represent Manoa: Isaac Choy or Kimberly Case?

Education

• Isaac choy voted to allow school children to continue to eat junk food during the school day.
• Kimberly Case supports healthy learning and health living and would have voted for school children to be both book smart and life smart.

Healthcare

• Isaac choy hasn’t come up with any new ideas on healthcare.
• Kimberly Case has alread asked for legislation that confirms insurance coverage for physician-prescribed treatment. She believes doctors should run healthcare, not insurance companies.

Economy

• Isaac Choy voted to break promises to companies and investors about tax credits, seriously hurting Hawaii’s reputation as a place to invest or do business.
• Kimberly Case would have voted against this bill. She supports using smart tax credits to stimulate and diversify our economy. She believes in keepin promises and following through on commitments.

Taxes

• Isaac Choy voted to eliminate some deductions from contributions to charities and nonprofits, medical expenses and mortgage expenses (essentially resulting in $140 million tax increase).
• Kimberly Case would have voted against the bill because it would seriously hurt charities and other nonprofit organizations during an economic downturn when their services are most needed. The loss of deducations would also hurt homeowners, people with medical conditions and small business.
• Isaac Choy co-introduced the bill to raise the barrel tax from $.05 to $1.05 (210%).
• Kimberly would have voted against the bill. She understands the need to protect and sustain our environment, but believes that this tax hike is unwise at this time and unnecessarily hurts the poor and people on fixed incomes.

Education

1. Funding for early childhood education
2.Adhering to national standards
3. Ending year-round school
4. A hybrid school board – ½ appointed & ½ elected
5. More online classes for high school and college
6. More vocational training opportunities
7. More UH/government/private partnerships
8. Adding UH classes that focus on emerging fields

Health Care

1. Increasing Medicare reimbursables to 2010 levels from 2004 levels
2. Bringing competition to insurance market
3. Expanding, not limiting, coverage
4. Coverage of doctor’s prescribed care
5. Coverage of all maintenance health care

Economy

1. More public/private partnerships to grow new businesses
2. Smart tax incentives to grow emerging fields such as high tech, green, optic and robotics
3. Focus on providing jobs with higher wages

Energy

1. Increasing tax incentives for installment of solar and wind power in residences with increased capacity to store and increased buy-back of excess energy
2. Expanding and conserving open spaces
3. Expanding agriculture opportunities with government assistance
4. Expanding tax incentives for commercial use and growth of solar, wind and wave generated electricity

Civil Rights

1. Supports Constitutional separation between church and state
2. Supports civil unions
3. Supports a woman’s right to choose
4. Supports equal work for equal pay

Homelessness is a complex issue, which needs to be addressed with a combined effort by city, state, nonprofits, charities, corporate entities and volunteers.  I believe that establishing a Homelessness Task Force made up by individuals from each of these groups can create partnership opportunities to generate a “graduated” set of options for housing (i.e. starting with emergency tent cities as seen in MASH units or emergency recovery situations) locating sites on state, Federal or private land, and finally entering into long-term agreements to initially fund and maintain low-cost housing and life training  programs to move the homeless into a self-sustaining mode.

Alternatives for those homeless who cannot be self-sustaining need to be addressed by the community. Some solutions that incorporate private and Federal partnerships include:

• Tax credits for monetary and similar-in-kind donations and developers can be passed by legislation;
• Both state and Federal funding (or grants) can be applied for;
• The homeless adults who participate in the life training programs will receive housing, job training and a small salary to purchase food and miscellaneous needs for themselves and their family, but will also be required to complete 10-20 houses of volunteer work per week;
• School–aged children must attend school and receive state-funded breakfast and lunch on school days;
• Job placement assistance will be provided.

This is a long-term strategy that will involve continued funding and evaluation of positive and negative outcomes.

Join us on August 3rd to meet a candidate who cares about the issues we do – social justice, a better business climate and improved education.

Knowing that “all politics is local”, some of the most important decisions facing our community in the coming legislative session will be decided by the outcomes of the State House legislative races this fall.

Kimberly S. Case has impressed me over the years as a dedicated community leader, and now she is ready to step up as the State Representative from Manoa. We need your help to get her there. Kimberly is running against an incumbent who voted against social justice, against a better business climate and hasn’t shown the leadership we need to see in the area of improved education.

Come and meet Kimberly on August 3rd from 5:30pm to 7:30 pm at the Waikiki Yacht Club. Suggested donation is $100 – You can send a check to Friends of Kimberly Case at 2040 Ahualani Place, Honolulu, HI, 96822.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/c11lIa

If you want to just come and meet her, talk with her about her position on the issues and then decide if you will support her, that’s fine too. You can also learn more Kimberly at http://www.kimberlyscase.com/about/

Here is more information:
Host: Gregory Dunn
Location: Waikiki Yacht Club, 1599 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96814 US
When: Tuesday, August 3, 5:30PM to 7:30PM
Phone: 808-722-0060