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Candidate Roz Baker
September 20, 2012
Running against: Bart Mulvihill
Birthplace: El Campo, Texas
Profession: Incumbent
Electoral Win/Loss Record: 7/1
First electoral victory: 1988
Supports: Construction of a Kihei High School, civil unions
Opposes: Tobacco use in all its forms
Gets campaign donations from: Pfizer, Hawaii State Teachers Union, ILWU Local 142, Hawaii Association of Realtors, HGEA/AFSCME Local 152, United Airlines, Young Brothers, A&B PAC, Hawaiian Telcom Govt. Relations Director Kenneth T. Hiraki, Patsy T. Mink PAC
Baker is a reliable Democrat, if only a moderate one. Though she scores very low on ratings sent out by conservative groups like the National Rifle Association and Small Business Hawaii, she recently won just a 64 out of a possible 100 rating from Sierra Club Hawaii (in her defense, she strongly supported those who fought against the old Hawaii Superferry, saying that it needed to comply with the state's environmental laws). Like all candidates running for office anywhere near South Maui, she supports the construction of a high school in Kihei. "Since I began to represent South Maui in 2002 I have made it my top priority to secure funding to build Kihei High School," states her own campaign website (rozbaker.com), which is both reassuring and depressing (2002 was a decade ago). Still, she possess a tremendous amount of political experience culled from winning election after election...