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One candidate's name I should have mentioned in my "Five races to watch" post  is another one running for Stacy Higa's  Fourth District Council seat.

Jet Heng is a 26-year-old Operation Iraqi Freedom vet and UH-Hilo political science student. Campaign manager Christopher Todd e-mailed me to say he and Heng have "started to meet with community associations and organizations to gain a feel of how Jet can best serve the community if he is voted into office."  Todd included Heng's resume, which I've posted here. They are both Hilo High grads and Todd is the son of former Hawaii County Councilwoman Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd, who is now the County's Environmental Management chief. Good to see the next generation getting a toehold in local politics. 

Meanwhile there were several other names I didn't mention in my earlier post and some readers have already started filling in the blanks on them. Others are getting antsy about not having enough info on all the unfamiliar names expressing an interest in public office. Patience, please, I'll get to them.

There are now enough candidates in the mayor's race alone to field a football team. Eleven have pulled papers for mayor (only Angel Pilago has actually filed -- the rest have until July 22), but only seven appeared on West Hawaii's mayor's race survey. WHT listed Angel Pilago, Stacy Higa, Billy Kenoi, Lorraine Inouye, Sam Masilamoney, Michael J. "Jasper" Moore and Roger Christie, while also announcing their intent to run but not listed in the survey are Joseph Barrozo, William J. Halverson, Randell J. Riley and Joseph W.L. Whitney.

If any of these candidates wants to share their resumes and campaign info with me, e-mail hunterbishop@hawaii.rr.com, or call me at 987-5186.