Yours truly looked in at Hawaii politics - there was a primary election yesterday (August 13th) - to see where the gubernatorial candidates stood on the Hawaiian telescope (TMT) issue in which UC has an interest.* (Blog readers will know that the issue comes up regularly at Regents meetings in public comments. We will see if it comes up in the off-cycle Regents meetings scheduled for this week.)
Josh Green, MD, the current lieutenant governor, won the Democratic primary:
On the controversial issue of the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Mauna Kea, ... Green said “we should build big projects like the TMT in our state, but we should only do it if we can do it through a place of respect and trust.”
Full story at https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/06/top-hawaii-governor-candidates-exchange-shots-at-forum/.
Hawaii is generally viewed as a "blue" state, i.e., it tends to elect Democrats. Green's Republican opponent in the general election will be Duke Aiona, a former lieutenant governor (2002-2010), who won the GOP primary:
Do you support or oppose the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the Big Island and why?
If all aspects of the building process of the Thirty Meter Telescope’s construction have been complied with and the stakeholders of the Mauna are in agreement that its management will be pono, then I am in favor of building the Thirty Meter Telescope.
Full story at https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/07/05/election/2022-election-duke-aiona/.
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*Election results at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/13/us/elections/results-hawaii-governor.html.
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