Today is especially exciting because our friend Maya Soetoro-Ng will be speaking at the convention floor. It wasn’t long ago that she was teacher at both the college and high school levels with no experience at all making political remarks. Maya’s been able to take time off to campaign, and has become a real asset as a surrogate for her brother. Her participating in the convention proceedings is something that gives it more of a Hawaii flavor, and we’re all looking forward to it.

This morning, we heard from a nonprofit called Denver’s Road Home, which has employed some innovative new practices in fighting homelessness. Since homelessness is such an enormous challenge in our home state, and Denver touts their results, we were looking forward to hearing how their programs work, and determine whether either the Mayor of Honolulu or the Senate President will be able to take some of these insights and put them to good use in Hawaii.

www.denversroadhome.com

Brian Schatz

Hawaii Democratic Party chairman

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