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Sherry Alu Campagna
Sherry Alu Campagna (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on August 11, 2018.
Elections
2018
General election
Incumbent Tulsi Gabbard defeated Brian Evans in the general election for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on November 6, 2018.
General election
General election for U.S. House Hawaii District 2
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tulsi Gabbard (D) | 77.4 | 153,271 |
 | Brian Evans (R) | 22.6 | 44,850 | |
| Total votes: 198,121 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Incumbent Tulsi Gabbard defeated Sherry Alu Campagna and Anthony Tony Austin in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 11, 2018.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tulsi Gabbard | 83.5 | 94,629 |
 | Sherry Alu Campagna | 12.3 | 13,947 | |
 | Anthony Tony Austin | 4.1 | 4,688 | |
| Total votes: 113,264 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Reiss (D)
Republican primary election
Brian Evans advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 11, 2018.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brian Evans | 100.0 | 12,331 |
| Total votes: 12,331 | |||
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Campaign themes
2018
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Civil Rights Her focus includes:
ending discrimination of LGBTQ individuals in all levels of government,
Economy & Labor Sherry seeks to create an economically sustainable CD2, encouraging the growth of small businesses and quality job creation. Sherry will strive to accomplish this while supporting economic justice for all hardworking Americans by raising the minimum wage, linked in perpetuity to the CPI (Consumer Price Index or "inflation"), and supporting the reform of Hawaii’s regressive tax system to benefit those of us struggling to make ends meet. She will support federal cluster grants to the private sector to collaborate on the needs of local small businesses and identify resources for economic growth and job creation. With the private sector, Sherry will collaborate on a process to understand their regional economies by focusing on potential growth markets, identifying opportunities in the supply chain and investing in and supporting economic growth trends by filling in the gaps of the local supply chain. Sherry fully supports workers' rights to form unions and will work toward passing the Employee Free Choice Act to protect collective bargaining. Collective Bargaining plays a key role in ensuring economic justice and a living wage for millions of Americans. Education Investing in quality public education is an investment in Hawaii’s future. Ensuring a reliable funding stream for public education must be a top priority as well as diversifying funding sources such as taxing absentee homeowners who hold investment properties in Hawaii without living in our state. There is no good reason that our keiki should suffer from 90+ degree classrooms or lack of resources. Our keiki deserve the best education that our state can offer. Our public school teachers deserve job security and significantly higher pay, and both teachers and students deserve smaller class sizes. Sherry believes in restoring erosions in education which Secretary DeVos and the Trump Administration have recently implemented. We must have just, equitable, and quality education for all children in this country. Sherry will strive to create federal scholarship incentive programs to encourage college student to become teachers. She will also increase financial aid for online colleges and work-credit programs, fight to simplify financial aid programs (one grant, one loan, one repayment program), create a pathway for free tuition at community colleges, and amend FERPA to protect student data privacy. Environment As an environmental scientist, Sherry is firmly committed to protecting the ‘aina. She supports a national GMO labeling bill and other “right to know policies.” Sherry will fight to establish pesticide buffer zones to ensure the safety of keiki and pregnant mothers, preserve sacred water rights and protecting water as a “public trust,” and preserve off-grid living rights. Sherry also supports reef preservation, Native Hawaii fishing and organic farming practices, and will aggressively fight to combat climate change and ocean level rise. Gun Control U.S. Federal Courts recently decided that Assault Rifles are not covered by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Hawaii has some of the strongest gun-control laws in the nation and there is no good reason why the rest of the country cannot follow suit. Sherry will work to pass a Federal Assault Rifle Ban, prevent the unnecessary and dangerous movement to arm teachers, and ensure the end of mass shootings. Sherry strongly supports the student organizers of March for Our Lives and their 5-point policy agenda, and if elected, will make this agenda her priority in Congress, because human lives are non-negotiable. Read more about this policy plan and how it does not interfere with Second Amendment rights, here. Health CD2 lacks appropriate funding to provide easy access to quality healthcare choices and reproductive healthcare choices. Sherry believes that easy access to quality care is a fundamental human right and the kuleana of our government. She will fight to secure funding for veterans, new mommies and their babies, our kupuna, and people living with disabilities. If elected, Sherry will work hard to establish Medicare-for-All. Houselessness & Housing Hawaii ranks, many years in a row, among the highest number of houseless persons per-capita, in the nation. For too long, real solutions have been ignored. There are solutions to the poverty and lack of affordable housing that drive our sisters and brothers into houselessness. Sherry believes in restricting foreign purchases of Hawaii real estate, taxing existing absentee foreign landowners to fund low-cost housing solutions and public education, temporarily require 85% of enlisted non-resident military personnel stationed in Hawaii to live on base or in military housing, increase funding for HUD, undo Secretary Ben Carson’s $6 billion HUD cuts affecting the poor, and ensure federal funding of Hawaii’s Housing First programs. Sherry would also collaborate with the military to utilize unused military land for civilian use in affordable rentals (BRAC). Sherry believes in allocating federal funds to help the state encourage truly affordable housing by using federal dollars to pay for infrastructure costs that often inhibit the private sector from engaging in affordable housing projects. Human Services & Human Rights At the core of Sherry’s priorities is the well-being of Hawaii’s people. This is her kuleana. Sherry will prioritize funding and construction of affordable housing for our seniors who are most vulnerable to falling into poverty, protect lawful immigrants and DACA recipients from deportation, ensure funding for juvenile diversion programs to keep kids out of the highschool-to-prison pipeline, and establish a funding stream to combat and prevent human trafficking, as well as survivors’ care. Sherry supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes reinstating DREAMERS’ rights to citizenship. LGBTQ Rights Sherry firmly believes that LGBTQ individuals and families deserve the same rights as everyone else. These are not "special rights," but rights and liberties afforded to all Americans. She strongly supports Marriage Equality, safe schools for LGBTQ youth, fair housing practices, and enforcement of policies that protect the LGBTQ people of every age. Sherry has promised to make the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment one of her top priorities and will ensure that these rights and protections include the LGBTQ community. Sherry stands firmly against so-called "Conversion Therapy," which has been debunked by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Counseling Association, and the American Pediatric Association, et alia. Conversion Therapy is tantamount to child abuse with traumatic effects on LGBTQ-identified youth. Sherry not only supports policies that protect the civil rights of LGBTQ individuals, she also supports federal studies on the systemic discrimination of LGBTQ youth in schools, houselessness programs, and in hiring practices. Sherry will work hard to create improved oversight and pathways to justice when LGBTQ individuals are discriminated against in our criminal justice system, education, labor, marriage, adoptions, child custody, housing, and government. She will start by ensuring that LGBTQ data is collected and reported, with transparency and accuracy, by the U.S. Census. Native Hawaiians I believe that rural Hawaii can be a place of strong, safe, thriving communities where our children may grow up happy, building a life of their own. I believe that our liberation is tied to our economic success, and that success requires access to the resources which allow us to live with dignity, free from violence and poverty— these include access to homelands, water, a clean and sustainable environment, good schools, a robust Hawaiian-centered economy, and quality health care choices for Native Hawaiians. And I strongly believe that any actions taken to bring justice and empowerment to Native Hawaiians, benefits Hawaii as a whole. Ceded Lands I believe that ceded lands belong to Native Hawaiians. The State of Hawaii, by federal law, must pay to Native Hawaiians the revenues earned from activities on ceded lands. I believe that the current revenue of $15 million annually is a gross underestimation of what is truly owed and that the federal government should procure an assessment of the actual revenues generated on ceded lands. Payment of income and proceeds, by the State of Hawaiʻi to the Office of Hawaiian Affiars (OHA), as verified and proposed, is both right and just. For too long, Native Hawaiians have been the victims of the highest degree of theft. Generations of oppression made us vulnerable to the greed of a powerful few. This theft must end. By paying Native Hawaiians the rightful amount due from ceded land revenue, most, if not all of the societal problems affecting Hawaii’s entire populace would be ameliorated; issues such as poverty, houselessness, domestic violence, child abuse, prison reform, food insecurity, and human trafficking. Native Hawaiians are disproportionately represented in all of these areas, but with fair and appropriate funding from ceded lands, we would be able to best address these areas and see improved outcomes for Native Hawaiians and all of Hawaii.
Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) I believe, in the long term, that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs should exist independent of, and external to, the State of Hawaii, as originally envisioned by its founders to establish a Native Hawaiian Governing Entity. Establishment of such an entity requires vision, discipline, and collective effort through shared values. OHA and DHHL can begin to lead the way, each by stable and organized effort on behalf of beneficiaries. For OHA , the journey toward self-determination requires a transparent and accountable entity that exists primarily to empower its beneficiaries and without voting input from non-Native Hawaiians.
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) I believe that Native Hawaiians value science, technology, and discovery. I also believe that Native Hawaiians have the right to protect our culture, history, and land. I strongly oppose any attempts to criminalize or vilify peaceful protestors on Mauna Kea who are, in fact, protected by the First Amendment. I oppose granting permits for TMT until the University of Hawaii brings its current Mauna Kea project sites into environmental compliance and repairs its relationship with Mauna Kea stakeholders. Having reached this impasse over TMT is regrettable, but this is not because of the Native Hawaiian community. Native Hawaiians have been trying to alert the public and government to the environmental issues on Mauna Kea long before TMT was proposed. As a community, we must not allow a land-user to disregard environmental law and our cultural sacred sites. Doing so creates an unconstitutional precedent for all future land development projects in Hawaii.
Water Rights Whether it be sacred water rights or basic water rights held in a public trust, I strongly believe in protecting and expanding water rights for Native Hawaiians. As the original protectors of the land and the water, we have an ancestral responsibility to respect the water, ensure its flow, use, and health in perpetuity for the land and all its people.
Education Recently, the current Secretary of Education with the U.S. Department of Education, Betsy DeVos, has clearly signaled her attack on the funding directly benefitting Native Hawaiian children in the public school system. I will work to protect this funding and work diligently to undo any act DeVos commits against the full funding of our public schools. In concert with my stance to protect the public education of children, I will ensure continued and increased funding for both public schools and public charter schools in order to provide quality education choices throughout our rural areas.
Housing and Houselessness Native Hawaiians are disproportionately represented in the houseless population in Hawaii. Hawaii ranks highest in houselessness per capita in the United States. I will work to end houselessness by supporting attainable housing solutions, sustainable tiny home communities, increased funding for Housing First services, and regulate (not abolish) vacation home rentals by supporting a cap on units offered by a single proprietor. I strongly support raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour by 2020 and will work to link the federal minimum wage to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in perpetuity. A $15/hour minimum wage is only a temporary fix, so linking future increases of the federal minimum wage to CPI (inflation) will relieve us from the exhausting redundancy of having to fight for a living wage every year. I will also support a tax plan that alleviates the financial burdens of ohana living paycheck to paycheck and will work to expand social security in order to help keep seniors from spending their later years in poverty. National Security She firmly supports the end of Russian interference of the American electoral process, including securing voting methods and protecting people from troll bots and fabricated Kremlin-made news. If elected, Sherry will support the Honest Ads Act and the end of unwarranted surveillance of American citizens. Sherry will seek to end the conflict in Syria but continue sanctions on the Assad Regime for the killing of over 500,000 Syrians and displacement of over 13 million men, women, and children. She firmly supports funding humanitarian aid efforts for families fleeing Syria and supports Syrian refugees entry into the United States. Women Charting a path forward on women’s issues would have had been simpler a year ago but under the current administration all women’s rights are under attack. As a women’s rights advocate, Sherry has the proven track record to protect our rights while partnering to undo the damage done by Trump– policies threatening access to reproductive health, funding for anti domestic violence services, and Title IX. Sherry also seeks to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. |
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| —Sherry Campagna for Congress[2] | ||
See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District election, 2018
- Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Sherry for Hawaii, "Issues," accessed July 28, 2018
