Tom Brower Explained

Tom Brower
State House:Hawaii
State:Hawaii
District:22nd
Prior Term:23rd (2006–2012)
Term Start:November 7, 2006
Term End:November 3, 2020
Preceded:Anne Stevens
Succeeded:Adrian Tam
Party:Democratic
Birth Date:3 March 1965
Birth Place:Honolulu, Hawaii
Residence:Waikiki, Hawaii
Alma Mater:University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Tom Brower (born March 3, 1965) is an American politician. He was a Democratic House member of the Hawaii House of Representatives who represented the 22nd district— which includes Waikiki, Ala Moana and Kakaʻako on the island of Oahu.[1] In his spare time he scours streets and parks in his district, looking for shopping carts homeless use to store and move their belongings. He returns good ones to stores and destroys others with his sledgehammer.[2] In 2015 he was injured in another altercation at a homeless camp.[3]

Brower was born at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, who is Caucasian, worked as a police sergeant; his mother, a Japanese-American, a schoolteacher. He was raised in Belmar and Spring Lake, New Jersey where he attended elementary, middle and high school.[4] [5] He graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a bachelor of arts in journalism in 1989.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. News: State Rep. Uses Sledgehammer To Destroy Homeless People's Possessions. 15 August 2018. Keyes. Scott. ThinkProgress. November 19, 2013.
  2. News: Mendoza. Jim. Lawmaker hammers home his homeless solution. 15 July 2018. KHNL. 19 Nov 2013.
  3. News: Davis. Chelsea. State Rep. Tom Brower injured in altercation at Kakaako homeless camp. 7 February 2016. KHNL. 29 June 2015.
  4. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/memberpage.aspx?member=brower Representative Tom Brower
  5. Web site: Tom Brower (D): State Representative, District 22, Waikiki. Hawaii Reporter. September 13, 2010 . June 30, 2015.
  6. Web site: Paying For Honolulu News - Hawaii Business Magazine. Hawaii Business Magazine. June 30, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150706102050/http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/paying-for-honolulu-news/. July 6, 2015. mdy-all.