"Vote Wayne Nishiki who wants to create jobs via infrastructure, medical facilities, reservoirs and affordable housing bond issues instead of selling off our future for poorly planned developments that make our lives unlivable."
Karen Chun
Maui is in crisis. Jobs will be my number one priority. We need to keep tourism as healthy as possible while diversifying our job base. There are quick ways to help such as increased public spending on infrastructure and on affordable housing. There are long term ways to help such as increasing our on-island four year college programs in order to attract high tech businesses.
We need to help people survive through this slowdown by growing more food locally, creating more farmers markets, allocating community gardens, passing low cost loan programs for individual solar and wind systems to bring down utility bills. But most of all we need an aggressive program to create jobs for our residents.
We need to take every step possible immediately to help out our residents who are facing unemployment, who can't pay their rent or mortgages, and who are being battered by high gas and electric costs.
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"Wayne Nishiki is a longtime community leader who has been fearlessly committed to a high quality of life for Maui's working people and to honesty and integrity in government.
Maui needs leaders like Nishiki who have integrity and consistency. "
Lance D. Collins
Kahului