PROFILE

ANN KOBAYASHI

FOR MAYOR OF HAWAII

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Ann Kobayashi

AGE:

71 years young and looks great!

RELIGION :

Attends churches of various religions, including Buddhism and Christianity.

FAMILY:

Ann is from a Japanese heritage and has a brother, Roy. Her father, Dr. Mori Hayashi, practiced as a dentist in Chinatown while her mother, Florence Hayashi, was a kindergarten teacher. Ann was married to Dr. Paul Kobayashi and gave birth to three children:  Mark, Dale, and Susan, and has six grandchildren. She grew up in the Punchbowl and Nuuanu areas of Hawaii.

EDUCATION:

Ann attended Roosevelt High School in Hawaii, and graduated from Pembroke College (now called Brown University) and Northwestern University.

STATE SENATOR AND COUNCIL MEMBER:

Ann worked for 14 years as a State Senator until 1994.  Most recently, for the past six years, she has been working as a Council Member where she introduced legislature which included low income tax credit on real property and providing tax relief for farmers.

RAIL ISSUE:

Ann supports mass transit rail, but only the lower costing rubber tire fixed guidance system which she states is popular in Asia and is new technology.  She is opposed to steel-on-steel which is currently planned, because of its exorbitant expense to taxpayers, and she believes that it is an outdated system.

HOMELESS ISSUE:

She is opposed to chasing the homeless from park to park with no place for them to go, stating it is "inhumane treatment."  Instead, she supports placement of the homeless in an abandoned building or deserted hotel along with drug treatment programs, job placement, and child care services.

COMMENTS:

Many people are homeless because there are critical shortages in both jobs and affordable housing in Hawaii. Most are not on drugs, not insane, and not unskilled. Those who work usually have two or three jobs because of the extremely high cost of living, which deepens the job shortages even more. Further, a shelter is run like a prison where you must throw out all your possessions except what you can fit in a small milk crate, and at night, you sleep on a hard mat on the floor covered with the homeless, and, thus, shelters are not a solution. Everyone should have basic human needs: home, food, and shelter. Luxuries are optional, but not basic human needs.

Let us pray for all the leaders of Hawaii to have Wisdom Peace and to lead with virtues of reason, courage, justice, self-discipline, and compassion.

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