West Hawaii Today - Mike Gabbard’s Responses
August 25, 2004

Questions:

1. Name: Mike Gabbard

2. Age: 56

3. What is the best way for a voter to contact you:
Email: mike@mikegabbard.com
Phone: 808.263-2888
Website: MikeGabbard.com

4. Profession: Educator, small businessman, City Council member

5. Education: B.A. in English, California State University at Sonoma; Masters Degree in Adult Education with emphasis on community college administration, Oregon State University.

6. Political Party: Republican

• Legislative advocate, State House, State Senate (1994-2004).
• Founded the Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Values.
• Led successful fight to get constitutional amendment on the ballot, culminating in a victory at the polls in 1998 with 70% of Hawaii’s voters affirming traditional marriage.
• Elected in nonpartisan race for City Council in 2002 with 62% of the vote.
• Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, Hawaii’s second congressional district.

8. Marital status, children:
I have been married to Carol for 35 years. We have five children and five grandchildren with another expected soon.

9. If not born here, why did you come to Hawaii and where are you from?
I was born in America Samoa. Our family moved to Hawaii in 1949 when I was one-year old because my dad joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Hickam Air Force Base on Oahu.

10. Fun-fact about yourself?
I taught Carol how to cook. I love to laugh, sing, and play the guitar.

11. What is the single most important issue facing your district, why and what would you do about it?

The safety and financial security of our loved ones. So we must work with equal vigor to protect our homeland from terrorists, “Ice” dealers, improve our economy and lower the deficit.

Everything depends on our state and nation being safe and secure. Without security, we won’t have prosperity, our economy will suffer and the deficit will rise. 9/11 is proof of this.