Randy Aaron Gonce
Randy Aaron Gonce was a 2016 Democratic candidate for District 40 of the Hawaii House of Representatives.
Campaign themes
2018
Gonce's campaign website stated the following:
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Hawaiʻi needs REAL affordable housing. Currently 'affordable housing' still looks like homes starting at $700,000. This is out of the range for working families, young adults, and our kupuna on fixed incomes. We need to make sure that every resident has equal access to housing. For starters we must close the loophole for developers to pay a fee in order to get out of building affordable housing when constructing new projects. We have enough million dollar condominiums in town.
We need to be supporting our teachers, schools, and working toward debt-free education for our residents. Hawaiʻi’s teachers deserve a living wage that allows them to thrive, not just scrape by. These same teachers should have autonomy in their classrooms untying their hands from teaching unrealistic standards, standardized testing goals, and other one-size-fits-all standards that fail to meet our students needs.
We need real measurable solutions for our houseless population. Homeless sweeps and the criminalization of our houseless population are aggravating the problem and lead to more issues. It burdens our prison/jails, our courts, and makes the tax payer pay for these services. With a large population of our residents just one paycheck away from being on the street this is an issue that needs leaders.
The State of Hawaiʻi has a tax structure that weighs heavier on our working class residents than those at the top of the economic ladder. Our middle and lower classes are struggling to make ends meet and each year that this goes by unaddressed or with marginal assistance is another year families struggle. Many working families are one emergency or loss of a paycheck away from poverty and houselessness. I have worked on things in the past such as a state Working Families Tax Credit (state EITC), trying to lift taxes on food & medical supplies, paid family leave, collective bargaining rights for graduate students, increasing the renters credit, and much more. We have had little to no success on these issues but there is a dire need for all of them. As someone who has been a working class worker my whole life I know that we need leaders who are willing to push these initiatives to assist working families.[1] |
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| —Randy Aaron Gonce’s campaign website (2018)[2] | ||
2016
Gonce's campaign website highlighted the following issues:
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Schools and Education:
Traffic, Roads, and Infrastucture:
Military and Veterans:
Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability:
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| ——Randy Aaron Gonce’s campaign website (2016), [3] | ||
Elections
2016
Elections for the Hawaii House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on August 13, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 7, 2016.
Incumbent Bob McDermott defeated Rose Martinez in the Hawaii House of Representatives District 40 general election.[4]
| Hawaii House of Representatives, District 40 General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  Bob McDermott Incumbent |
58.67% | 3,528 | |
| Democratic | Rose Martinez | 41.33% | 2,485 | |
| Total Votes | 6,013 | |||
| Source: State of Hawaii - Office of Elections | ||||
Rose Martinez defeated Randy Aaron Gonce in the Hawaii House of Representatives District 40 Democratic primary.[5][6]
| Hawaii House of Representatives, District 40 Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Rose Martinez |
57.00% | 1,022 | |
| Democratic | Randy Aaron Gonce | 43.00% | 771 | |
| Total Votes | 1,793 | |||
Incumbent Bob McDermott ran unopposed in the Hawaii House of Representatives District 40 Republican primary.[5][6]
| Hawaii House of Representatives, District 40 Republican Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Republican | Bob McDermott Incumbent (unopposed) | |
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See also
- Hawaii House of Representatives
- Hawaii House of Representatives District 40
- Hawaii House of Representatives elections, 2016
- Hawaii State Legislature
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Randy Aaron Gonce’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed March 15, 2018
- ↑ Randy Gonce for Hawaii, "Issues," accessed July 13, 2016
- ↑ State of Hawaii, "General Election 2016 - State of Hawaii – Statewide November 8, 2016," accessed November 23, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 State of Hawaii, "2016 Candidate Report," accessed June 10, 2016
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hawaii.gov, "Primary Election results," accessed September 12, 2016
