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Anthony Makana Paris
Anthony Makana Paris (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Hawaii House of Representatives to represent District 42. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Paris completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Anthony Makana Paris was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He earned a high school diploma from the Kamehameha Schools Kapālama. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a graduate degree from Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. He earned a law degree from the University of Hawaii William Richardson School of Law. His career experience includes working as a small business owner.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Hawaii House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42
Incumbent Diamond Garcia defeated Anthony Makana Paris in the general election for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Diamond Garcia (R) | 56.8 | 4,802 |
 | Anthony Makana Paris (D)  | 43.2 | 3,646 | |
| Total votes: 8,448 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42
Anthony Makana Paris defeated Summer-Lee Yadao and Isaiah Baclaan in the Democratic primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42 on August 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Anthony Makana Paris | 53.7 | 1,074 |
 | Summer-Lee Yadao | 24.9 | 498 | |
 | Isaiah Baclaan | 21.4 | 427 | |
| Total votes: 1,999 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42
Incumbent Diamond Garcia advanced from the Republican primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42 on August 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Diamond Garcia | 100.0 | 1,020 |
| Total votes: 1,020 | |||
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Green primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Asheemo Daily (G)
Endorsements
To view Paris's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here. Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Paris in this election.
2022
See also: Hawaii House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42
Diamond Garcia defeated incumbent Sharon Har in the general election for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Diamond Garcia (R) | 52.8 | 3,350 |
 | Sharon Har (D) | 47.2 | 2,991 | |
| Total votes: 6,341 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42
Incumbent Sharon Har defeated Anthony Makana Paris and Lori Goeas in the Democratic primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42 on August 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sharon Har | 41.3 | 1,257 |
| Anthony Makana Paris | 31.6 | 960 | |
 | Lori Goeas | 27.1 | 825 | |
| Total votes: 3,042 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42
Diamond Garcia advanced from the Republican primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 42 on August 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Diamond Garcia | 100.0 | 1,330 |
| Total votes: 1,330 | |||
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2020
See also: City elections in Honolulu, Hawaii (2020)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Honolulu City Council District 1
Andria Tupola won election outright against Anthony Makana Paris, Kathy Davenport, Naomi Hanohano, and Galen Kerfoot in the primary for Honolulu City Council District 1 on August 8, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Andria Tupola (Nonpartisan) | 59.5 | 14,420 |
| Anthony Makana Paris (Nonpartisan) | 15.7 | 3,793 | |
| Kathy Davenport (Nonpartisan) | 15.5 | 3,749 | ||
| Naomi Hanohano (Nonpartisan) | 6.8 | 1,659 | ||
| Galen Kerfoot (Nonpartisan) | 2.5 | 608 | ||
| Total votes: 24,229 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Anthony Makana Paris completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Paris' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- We should leave Hawai‘i better than we found it. Hawai‘i is at a crisis point in our history with high cost of living, lack of affordable housing, record high HOA insurance fees, grueling traffic and long commutes, rising crime, a shortage of good jobs, food insecurity, aging and insufficient infrastructure, increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters, rising sea levels, and a public educational system desperately in need of improvement. The foundation for solutions to all of these problems is adequate, affordable housing for Hawaii’s families.
- If we invest in our ʻāina and our people first, everything else will follow. Economically, we need to improve Hawai‘i through investing in history’s greatest economic drivers – home construction, agriculture, education, and firm and renewable energy. I support creativity and innovation. Our communities have ancestral wisdom and are skilled with formal education and street smarts, ingenuity, and know-how.
- I believe Hawaii’s tax and fee codes should be more progressive and worker friendly to make sure our local families can continue to live, work, and play here in the islands. I would support a Tax Reform Task Force to explore: raising income taxes on the rich; raising corporate taxes; make foreign investors and REITS pay their fair share; have visitors pay their fair share; charging an “empty-homes” surcharge on vacant properties; collect taxes on responsible adult use marijuana; and suspending GET exemptions that have served their purpose.
Jobs & Business Growth
Public Infrastructure Improvement
Affordable & Workforce Housing
Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Our goal should be truly affordable housing so that our residents can remain here and that we can bring our families that left back home. Fully funding the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is critical to addressing this crisis. I also support stabilizing the condominium insurance market, smart planning and transit-oriented development, mixed-use zoning for housing, increasing state investment into public housing, especially for long-term rentals, and programs that prioritize residents including ALOHA Homes.
Sierra Club
Hawaii Tourism and Lodging Association
Hawaii Ironworkers, Local 625
International Council of Painters and Allied Trades, District Council 50
HGEA, AFSCME Local 152
Hawaii Nurses Association, OPEIU Local 50
International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 142
Unite HERE, Local 5
The International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers, Local 1
United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646
Operating Engineers, Local 3
United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 480
Cement Finishers and Plasterers, Local 630
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2022
Anthony Makana Paris did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Anthony Makana Paris did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 19, 2024
