{"id":1605820,"date":"2022-08-14T20:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605820"},"modified":"2022-08-14T20:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:48:19","slug":"physician-green-wins-hawaii-democratic-primary-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/physician-green-wins-hawaii-democratic-primary-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician Green Wins Hawaii Democratic Primary for Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphysician-green-wins-hawaii-democratic-primary-for-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>HONOLULU\u2014For their 16th wedding anniversary, Democrats in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hawaii\">Hawaii<\/a> gifted Josh Green and his wife, Jaime, a comfortable margin of victory in the gubernatorial primary Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Green, the state\u2019s current lieutenant governor, handily defeated former First Lady Vicky Cayetano and Kaiali\u2019I Kahele, who decided to seek the governor\u2019s office instead of a second term in the U.S. House.<\/p>\n<p>Green, with lei of yellow and purple flowers and green leaves piled high up to his neck, alternated between throwing fists in the air and giving the shaka sign to a boisterous crowd of supporters at his victory party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn to November, we will win the governorship and lead Hawaii forward,\u201d he said to the cheering crowd.<\/p>\n<p>He will face former two-term Republican Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona in the general election, who defeated mixed martial arts championship fighter B.J. Penn in his party\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Hawaii News Now, Aiona said his supporters \u201ctrusted my ability to lead the state, and I\u2019m truly, truly appreciative and grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green has served as second-in-command for the past four years to Hawaii Gov. David Ige, who has already served two terms and isn\u2019t eligible to run for reelection.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Democratic primary is favored to win the general election in the liberal state.<\/p>\n<p>Many voters said Hawaii\u2019s high housing costs were a top issue for them. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the median price of a single-family home topped $1 million in Honolulu, Maui, and Kauai counties.<\/p>\n<p>To address the housing shortage, Green said he would issue an executive order to eliminate red tape and streamline construction approvals and enforce existing laws to shut down illegal vacation rentals.<\/p>\n<p>Aiona said he would eliminate the state Land Use Commission, which he blamed for slowing housing development.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert Rowland, an Oahu construction worker, said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU\u2014For their 16th wedding anniversary, Democrats in Hawaii gifted Josh Green and his wife, Jaime, a comfortable margin of victory in the gubernatorial primary Saturday. Green, the state\u2019s current lieutenant governor, handily defeated former First Lady Vicky Cayetano and Kaiali\u2019I Kahele, who decided to seek the governor\u2019s office instead of a second term in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}