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And in still more primary news, Coco Iwamoto primaried the Democratic Speaker of Hawaii's house of reps from the left -- and won. It was her third try. The other 2 times she lost by 161 votes and 167 votes, but I can't remember in which order. Her margin this time was larger than the soon-to-be-former Speaker's margins against her.

Of note, Iwamoto is a trans woman with a history of serving on the state's education board and human rights commission. (The education board is elected, the HRC is appointed, but when she was first elected to the election board she was the highest-ranked elective office holder of any out trans person in history.) She's been doing good things for a long time, and now she wants to tackle homelessness, which is fucking RAMPANT in Hawaii because the real estate is priced for its rental value to rich tourists, not the value residents can afford to pay for housing.

It looks like there might be some significant stuff up with Hawaii's politics, but I know nothing about Hawaii, so I'm still looking for a couple more good sources on what's going on before I can feel comfortable writing the story up.

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"The enemy of the working class rides the waves in a luxury yacht, not a refugee's dinghy".

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