- Nov 17, 2009
- 70,607
- 38,452
Meaning instead of having one Republican in the State Senate they'll now have two. 
Democratic Sen. Gil Riviere also lost in a hard-fought race with former television news anchor Brenton Awa in the Senate district that extends from Kaneohe along the North Shore to Waialua.
Awa finished with 50% of the vote to Riviere’s 47% in returns released Wednesday, with 391 votes separating the two candidates. Awa has been running a campaign focused on criticizing corruption among the state’s Democrats.
www.civilbeat.org
Democratic Sen. Gil Riviere also lost in a hard-fought race with former television news anchor Brenton Awa in the Senate district that extends from Kaneohe along the North Shore to Waialua.
Awa finished with 50% of the vote to Riviere’s 47% in returns released Wednesday, with 391 votes separating the two candidates. Awa has been running a campaign focused on criticizing corruption among the state’s Democrats.
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Democratic state Sen. Gil Riviere lost to Republican Brenton Awa by three percentage points in election returns released Wednesday.
www.civilbeat.org
