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Kahala Jen Chrupalyk

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Kahala Jen Chrupalyk

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Aloha Aina Party

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November 3, 2020

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Philadelphia, Pa.
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Kahala Jen Chrupalyk (Aloha Aina Party) ran for election to the Hawaii House of Representatives to represent District 9. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Chrupalyk completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Kahala Jen Chrupalyk was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 election, he anticipated graduating from the University of Hawaii in 2021. Chrupalyk's professional experience includes working in criminal justice, social work, occupational therapy, credit counseling, sales, corporate management, food safety, farming, building codes, construction, electrical, proprietorship, education, family services, and economic initiatives. He has been affiliated with the Maui Historical Society, Maui Nui Botanical Gardens, Hui Aloha ʻĀina, ʻĀina Aloha, Waihona, Otreach Ministries, Duolingo, Honor Society of America, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Aha Moku, Maui Nui Seabird Recovery, ʻIolani Palace, Kingʻs Cathedral, HFUU, and Aloha ʻĀina Party.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: Hawaii House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Hawaii House of Representatives District 9

Incumbent Justin Woodson defeated Kahala Jen Chrupalyk in the general election for Hawaii House of Representatives District 9 on November 3, 2020.

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Justin Woodson (D)
 
83.5
 
7,019
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Kahala Jen Chrupalyk (Aloha Aina Party) Candidate Connection
 
16.5
 
1,383

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Total votes: 8,402
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 9

Incumbent Justin Woodson advanced from the Democratic primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 9 on August 8, 2020.

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100.0
 
3,724

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Total votes: 3,724
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Aloha Aina Party primary election

Aloha Aina Party primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 9

Kahala Jen Chrupalyk advanced from the Aloha Aina Party primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 9 on August 8, 2020.

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100.0
 
92

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Total votes: 92
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Campaign themes

2020

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Candidate Connection

Kahala Jen Chrupalyk completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Chrupalyk's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Qualified by experience, Iʻve worked in or advocated for a number of professional fields, indicating my expressed interest within the community. A single mother, part-time instructor and home-school educator, I also am heavily vetted into the community as a volunteer, as well as a student of UH.
  • Every positive change begins with courage and unity.
  • Internalizing economy through small business investment and livable wages.
  • Everything we do is grass roots, sometimes kalo.
1. Education: faculty compensation and development, Hawaiʻi based education, and addition of vocational education plans

2. Employable Opportunities: internalizing the economy through local investment and employment opportunity
3. Housing: make housing available through making competitive wages that help people afford costs of living

4. Cultural Connection: develop culturally connected classroom settings and programs to prepare faculty and students for success
I look up to my great grandfather Henry Maui for surviving a 5000 mile exile from his beloved country for the protection of his family. He passed away young, weeping for not having been able to return to his home. 107 years later, I returned to honor him and for the survival of my own children, from the plight of Philadelphia. My great grandfatherʻs last political affiliation crumbled soon after his exile. I am of the first team of candidates to register under the Aloha ʻĀina Party 107 years later.
Lean On Me
Courage and remembering how an official was elected into office in the first place. The people voted the official into office. How do so many politicians forget that? If elected, I vow to hold an open relationship with the people that make up my district.
Educational, Economic and Environmental Solutions
Sense of Family, Resourceful, Equality, Human Rights, Courage, Behavioral Health, Large Networks of Solutions
I believe that the first and foremost responsibility of an elected official is to communicate with the people in their districts. With todayʻs technology, we have many ways to choose how to accomplish that. There is no excuse to ignore the Voice of the People.
Better care for our elders, balanced solutions for families, brighter futures for future generations
May 13, 1985: The City of Philadelphia illegally obtained a bomb and dropped it on a residential city block.
As an eight year old child, this was traumatizing.
That depends on your definition of a first job. Iʻve been in performing arts since I was 2 months old and working in the family store from 1983 until it sold in 2004
I have a full library at home that I regularly read and expand. Topics that most interest me generally include books that help me understand how to effectively locate solutions that serve both personally as well as for the community as a whole. Such books generally tend to be within the parameters of social sciences.

Other stories that excite me tend to be biographies that display great triumph over hindering circumstances such as Stolen Lives by Malika Oukfir and Michelle Fitoussi, or Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff.
None of my characters are fictional because I do not know about fiction. However in terms of fictionalized characters, I would go with that of Pocohontas, Mulan, Moana. They suit my character of independence, bravery and loyalty.
Kaulana Nā Pua
Iʻm no stranger to struggle. Knowing what happens when conditions do not recover for communities. I grew up in a place where systemic corruption costed a city of 3.2 million people - a safe place to live. During my teen years violence and addiction in the community served as communal coping mechanisms and by the time I turned twenty one, almost everyone I ever loved was murdered - many at my witnessing. Coming to terms with the world after that, and during my initial years as a mother was probably the hardest triumph to overcome. A decade later, overcoming a brain injury that resulted from having grown up in the face of violence, became the greatest feat I had ever overcome because doctors had no hope Iʻd ever get off that bed. Miracles do come true and God could be the only author of such a story. Today, with few minor restrictions, life is normal and that brain injury did not affect my ability to physically or academically succeed.
Hawaiʻiʻs greatest challenge is going to be to rebuild and once again depend on a barge and tourism to achieve economic excellence. It was a faulty economic system and Hawaiʻi is going to need stronger leadership to overcome our economic situation successfully.
The two should serve as an equal system of checks and balances. Anything outside of that infrastructure is out of balance, or in Hawaiʻiʻs local lingo - not pono.
It most-certainly is beneficial to build relationships with other legislators to be able to understand one anotherʻs perception when team building regarding policy and a unified approach toward solutions.
Interactive decision making with constituents.
Education and Agriculture
The areas of education and agriculture are the two areas experiencing the most neglect, as well as being two of the most important areas for local sustainability.
Yes, and I believe the role will occur as my strengths begin to surface.
Shirley Chisholm, Patsy Mink and even Ronald Reagan for his economic successes.
This is my first experience as a candidate. I feel as though it is too soon to judge.
Most of the stories that I have heard, deal with the plight of each background in Hawaiʻi. It is sad to see that corporate investment causes the Voice of the People to become whispers in the wind. This is why we continuously lose our educated residents who must leave Hawaiʻi to survive. When those professionals leave, the rest of the people lose those valuable services. Now that tourism is closed, more people than ever are experiencing terrible issues getting by.

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  1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 16, 2020


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