More Familiar Names Pull Election Papers

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For Hawaii state Senate seats, they include GOP incumbent Sam Slom.

For the state House, they include Democrat incumbents Ken Ito, Marcos Oshiro, Della Au Belatti, Mark Hashem, Dee Morikawa, Joe Souki, Gil Keith-Agaran, Cindy Evans, Faye Hanohano and Clift Tsuji.

House Republican George Fontaine has pulled papers to run for re-election as well in a Maui district that currently has five Democrats considering a primary run. They include former incumbent Joey Bertram, who lost his seat in 2010 to Fontaine by a mere 172 votes.

Calvin Say is also weighing another run, where he could face the same candidates he crushed just two years ago — Democrat Dwight Synan and Republican Julia Allen.

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